Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati - A Jewel from my Mothers Crown

Contents

1 | A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

What distinguishes a child from an adult? Given a choice between food and play, a child prefers play and an adult prefers food. But both like excitement. Excitement and play build relationships and bonds people into friendships. Most adults have lost their freshness, passion and playfulness, forgetting and forgiving easily, the characteristics of little children. If the society is to be more tolerant, cooperative and creative, we need to reintroduce play function into learning. We need playful divine mentors who hold hands for the seekers in need of guidance.

Our vision is to develop childlike freshness and play to connect seekers with divine hierarchy of angels and gurus to hold their hands every step of the way. r Cakra has plenty of such playful angelic mentors in the form of parivara devatas and lineage of gurus.

This book attempts to demystify Lalit Navvarana Pj. It explains the basic concepts of Mantra, Yantr and Tantr of r Vidy in fair detail. Having said this, I must confess that learning r Vidy is not easy. It is a serious lifelong study to understand that you are not just a body having a life, but you are life itself going through different levels: body, cosmos and pre-cosmos. It identifies you with the universal I in the whole world rising above negatives (1. Hatred 2. Doubt 3. Fear 4. Shame 5. Abhorrence 6. Class 7. Race 8. Conduct) and cultivating purities (1. Food, 2. Breathing, 3. Thinking, 4. Intuition 5. Joy). You need to commit to improve your life in every-which-way.

What is the entry point to such a serious study?

I call it Siri Jyoti, abundant light. In it, young and old gather in fun to draw a complicated r Yantr and learn geometry of the souls journey, decorate it with flowers and lotuses which are psychic powers, and put collective life into their own bodies, connect to the one life coursing in all of us. It is all in a fun-filled day of community action. It yields positive experiences very soon.

I believe it is a perfect introduction to serious study of r Vidy. It is the play class before kinder-garden. The desire to study builds up with experience and understanding. We give this process as an appendix; yet it is easily the most important thing to learn first.

What is divinity? Divinity is caring for life in all, the characteristic of leadership.

So, let us get the ball rolling.

Guruji Amtnanda

www.devpuram.com

2 | PREFACE

It has been just over twenty five years since Guruji (r la r Amtnanda Ntha Sarasvat) published the book r Cakr Pj. This golden book with a blue hard cover is often, very dearly, referred to as the Blue Book by his disciples. Year 2013 was the Silver Jubilee of the Blue Book. In the current environment (Kali Yuga) devotees are cramped for time to engage in extensive external spiritual exercises. Guruji in his great abundance of love and compassion to teach all humankind without any reservation to race, caste or creed took great effort to gift us this Blue Book for nity pj i.e. Perform the pj / ritual at home daily in a short time. He expended intense efforts to extract the essence from the Paraurm Kalpa Stra into this Blue Book, ensured simplicity and captured all the essentials to realize the benefits of performing the r Chakr pj / ritual.

In this publication many of Gurujis writings, talks and interviews have been consolidated and collated to provide a comprehensive view and thorough understanding of the r Cakr pj. Extensive, authentic, explanations are delivered coherently in every step of the ritual to help the reader understand the functionality and the entailing effects of these rituals. It is not the execution of a puja in a mundane manner but the translations and explanations that render you realize and rejoice in the true meaning of undivided unity with the Divine and the cosmos. He has articulated in very simple ways the integration of the Mantra, Yantra and Tantra to experience the Divine in you and understand the r Cakra, as a symbolic representation, to the gateway of the microcosm of the atoms, an individual and the cosmos. The reader will also observe the power of visualization is implied in a very subtle manner. With the intent to instill Gurujis teachings, as delivered by him, with no adulteration to the authenticity of Gurujis parlance, limited editing has been exercised in the compilation of this book. These rituals in the subject of r Vidy is intensely sublime and rewarding, leads to a direct experience of yourself as a wave of beauty, bliss arising from the ocean of pure consciousness in you, experience you and your body as a living shrine and the cakras as altars in that shrine. Illustrations have been included to visually aid the reader without compromising the imagination. The elements and details, in this book, constitute to an encyclopedic r Cakra pj. For a beginner it could take more than one attempt of concentrated reading to absorb the underlying meanings but will be a rewarding exerciseit is a TREAT.

Part-3 of this book allows the disciple to follow either the external worship of the r Cakr Pj or internal worship with Bindu Bhedhanam (very specific to r Vidy that requires deep concentration and should not be attempted without the guidance of your Guru). Part-4 provides the choice of performing the akti pj using Trive Kalpam (another masterpiece from Guruji) or r Sktam.

Guruji has come to us as a Guru, father, brother, friend, ascetic and yati and dedicated his life to guide us in spiritualism, teach to love unconditionally, empower and respect all fellow beings. This year (2014) he completes his 80th birthday referred to as the ata Abhiekam- having experienced 1000 pourams (full moons) in this life cycle. This publication is offered at his golden feet, as part of this inauguration, titled A jewel from my Mothers crown and is endowed to all by r la r Amtnanda Ntha Sarasvat - a Diamond Book.

Sr Caitanynand Ntha Sarasvat

3 | INTRODUCTION

The r Cakra

Words and sentences are auditory forms informing us about creation, maintenance and dissolution. Similarly, a highly coded visual geometrical structure exists. It is called a r Cakra (the circle of grace). It is the genetic code of the Cosmos, the individual and micro cosmos. Meditation on it has revealed many truths to seers; it is itself revealed in meditation. It is a symbol all of creation, including its unitive (subjective) and diverse (objective) aspects. The seer is always one. The seen are many. r Cakra is the abode of the cosmic awareness.

Worship of the r Cakra