>> Are you suggesting that one should believe that worship of >> Sri Vidya didn't start until this point in time and that it > started as a Buddhist practice? > It's not a belief, it's history - the Sri Vidya cult arose at about the same time as the Bengali Shajiyas and the eighty-four mahasiddhas. The Nath cult is the Western Transmission of the Tantric Buddhists - first to Kashmere, then to Tibet, and later to South India.
>> Lord Hayagriva at the command of Lalita Devi gave this knowledge >> of Sri Vidya to Rishi Agastya and was made responsible for >> revealing TRUE WORSHIP of Mother through it. >> Rishi Agastya taught the Sri Vidya to Guadapada, who passed it on to Govinda, who taught it to Shankara who installed the Sri Chakra and then composed the Saundaryalari for our understanding. There is no higher knowledge that Sri Vidya, the Auspicious Wisdom. >> According to Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji of Mysore, >> India Liberation from the cycle of birth and death does not result >> through Tantra practices. > All the Shankaracharyas practice tantric techniques. We do not know exactly why or when the Shankarites adopted Shaktism, we only know that at some point in time, they did so. The tantras are for everyone - they are the only means of liberation in this age. People nowadays can't read or write Sanskrit and thus they can't access the scriptures; real gurus are hard to find; and hardly anyone gets a shaktipat anymore; all we have now are the tantric techniques. > So, from the above observations, it is probable that Guru Dev > meditated on bija-mantras contained within the Sri Yantra, a diagram > or mnemonic device for transcending. >> Does anyone here really believe that Sri Brahmananda Saraswati >> Jagadguru of Jyotir Math as the living example of Veda had to >> meditate on anything? >> Everyone meditates on something - that's why they call it meditation. But we have an eyewitness account, Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who met Brahmanand Saraswati in the Vindhya mountains one time. In his book, Living With the Himalayan Masters, Swami Rama recounts how Brahmananda showed him a Sri Yantra and explained the Sri Vidya to him. So, we have an eyewitness account by Swami Rama; we have the fact that Brahmanand's guru was Swami Krishanand Saraswati of Sringeri; we have the fact that the Sringeri matha, founded by Shankara, is the seat of the Sri Chakra; and we have the Saundaryalahari composed by Shankaracharya, which describes the worship of Tripurasundari and enumerates the Sri Vidya bija-mantras. So, yes I do believe, based on the available evidence, that Swami Brahmanand Saraswati probably meditated on the Sri Chakra, just like all of the other Dasanamai Saraswati Sannyasins do. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
