Namaste dylan ! Why is every other devi sitting on lotus sprouting from shiva's navel but Divine mother sri Siddhilakshmi is seated on his shoulders ? And even Akash bhairav is on top of vajra bhairav ? Could you please clear this ?

Dear Agni, for an individual whose Amatyakaaraka is the Sun—and given your previous discussions on various Karakas—is it permissible for them to directly commence the chanting of the RajaShyamala mantra, or is adherence to the prescribed Krama of Raja Shyamala essential?

To clarify, the purva simhāsana and paścima simhasana are both facing east?

David Frawley is a Vedic astrologer. How did you find your in person guru? Did you find him in India? If you have any recommendations of who I can go to that would be very helpful. Unfortunately I have made many mistakes during my Rahu Mahadasha so I am not in the best place in life. Kind of feeling hopeless. Vault of Heavens is Ernst Wilhelms site. I am familiar with him. Bala mantra is where most Sri Vidya gurus recommend people start. Thank you for your kind help. Lots to research and discover.

Dear Michael, i will take a swing at number 2 but please take it with a grain of salt. keeping with the tradition specific encoding of Vallalar, those two/ that one in dual form, is fully it, and encompasses everything “below” as well, which is an infinite and ever growing creating, of many universes and perhaps even infinitely many multiversal infinitely powerful Goddesses and Gods. It is an utterly mind boggling scale if one takes it at face value. I would bet there is an experiential component that must be had to have any real sense of the nature or scale of reality. Something more concrete: our perception of time as linear and composed of points with befores and afters and beginnings and ends and the needs for creation and created to have a cause and effect relationship is illusory from the perspectives of mathematics as well as physics (to varying degrees and with a lot of intricacy and contextual details). But to be concise, we are being who can only experience 3 dimensions plus a fourth of time. We can experimentally observe and mathematically describe dimensions beyond 10 as it is, which tells that Reality in fact is so mind boggling nor vast than we know even at a given point that well, the only time I’ve ever seen some way to get a non-mathematical inkling of it was with the television show and book series 3 body problem, where a proton is unfolded to its 10th dimensional fullness and, becoming like a supercomputer larger than a planet, is then returned to its 3/4 frequency containing all the capacity and power of its 10th dimensional fullness, now that it is once again, iirc, with the mass charge and spin of a class of regular proton. The scales of the robustly demonstrated higher dimensions, where beginnings and endings have no meaning or deep reality, is something that leads to all kinds of paradoxes and head scratching due to our perceptions within the bounds of 3/4 d, stuff like the myriad time travel paradoxes and infinite energy. The mind as it is reallly can’t wrap around the more real and complete states of reality except tangentially or through allegedly yoga And sadhana, or practically sometimes by changing the state of the brain waves dramatically (actually this can be quoting them down and making them appear more synchronized but I really digress). Beginnings and ends and the need for a first mover who needs another first mover all the up, you can be pretty confident that is an illusion we all share struggle with becuase of the developmental effects of being 3/4 dimensional beings in a reality with much higher and vaster dimensions, scientifically speaking.

Thank you Tivra! Beg pardon, but I wanted to ask if, at some point in the future if you are guided to return to this forum, you wouldn’t consider writing an article to be posted among the rest? to inspire people to seek truth and live compassion, perhaps with something that is universally relevant to the present and future for this world, such as the reasoning and impacts of Vaļļalār’s dematerialization of his deathless body, and where those particles now exist?

I will try but as I look back, without any initation it may very well be the case that all I observed and that which propelled me Forward was coincidental or mistakes of perception and confirmation biases on my part. Eventually, after many Attempts at self initiations and some rituals, while reading what I could find but not very diligently tbh, and looking for guiding signs, such as my US-rendered birthdate being 3/22, I felt sure I had some reason in this life to be seeking Her, and so I just dove in to lots of japa but didn’t keep my focus or put in much effort most of the time. Lakhs of lackadaisical distracted recitation didn’t do anything like I hoped, and in fact I seemed to be in a state of regularly experiencing little bits of “unpleasant” karma, even though my time was improving and I polished my lifestyle up quite a bit. Eventually I met a mystic who tried to help along my connection to Her. something like a partial baby initiation, perhaps partly for tutelary purpose, and then after that I experienced very specific and often alarming dreams, and in the airy waking world, I seemed to attracted very mixed things, and also I found myself wasting energy due to tamasic thoughts. So I stopped reciting the mantra and Kavacam, and I never read her Khadgamala or Sahasranama except lightly for purposes of curious study (notably, the Khadgamala in the available editions of MKS has been obviously redacted at certain points, and this deterred me further). Only with the highly harmonic and equilibrial sadhana Tivra graciously revealed here, did I find myself having positive mental effects from Her mantra japa. I am still very drawn to her, but I have come around to what Jothi Agaval advised two or so years back here, which was to go to Lalita to experience and know Kamakala Kali, and enjoy the beautiful ride along the way

These are very good questions Michael. Honestly I am a pure newcomer to this stuff and spirituality in general. I have just begun the Deathless Body books and collected a few other options for study of this path, and hopefully within the pages as well as within experience, an answer to 1 will emerge. If so I will surely come back and share. Even though my perception may be far off. I have some thoughts already about the answer, but they come mostly from minor knowledge of the balance and transcendence between light and dark, and entheogenic experiences of states where black grows so dark it turns to the most brilliant white, and vice versa, and views of beings who are in a fourth dimensional + state and wearing some sort of hyper-colors, including black white and purple-yellow-black-white, along others that have no descriptive commonality at all with what our languages have evolved to encompasses. Besides that, from just perusing manblunder comments, given the beyond-supreme and utterly complete position of Grace Sakti and her God of vast infinite light, it seems like it must be the case such a level contains all below. Including all darkness, and that likely what is light for them is not how we may understand light. It might be like the underlying layers of machine language of reality or something, which happen to demonstrate that love and compassion and magnanimous and playfulness are not just things in conditional-non-duality, but actually the emotive forces instigating and operating the entire reality and beyond, but here I am just making stuff up as far as I know. From where we are, everything eventually appears to be in alchemical equilibrium and perfectly suited for any level of transmutation of opposites, as well as perfectly designed for any evolving soul to make the most of any moment. But these are really unfounded personal biases of mind, not precise or well hashed out or well researched

I will certainly publish it Dearest Tivra. Thank you once again for the most enlightening knowledge and revelation that can help all Śrī Vidyā sādhakas. Would it be possible to provide the nyāsas and the relevant dhyāna ślokas for the Hādi Vidyā and Śuddha Vidyā mantras. You have provided for Pañchakūṭa Tripurabhairavī in the latest post which I will use for the articles and will also include your comments in all these articles.

Dear Tivra ji. Thank you for your incredible response. Does the Tripura Bhairavi mantra only prepare one for the Hadi Panchadasi mantra or for the Kadi and Sadi mantras as well? Also in regards to how Sadi vidya makes one like iShvara, does that mean Sadi vidya is the gayatri mantra practiced by the ancient Rishis (like Kashyapa and Viswamitra)? I recall that they used the power of their “gayatri mantra” to create the entire manifested universe, was this an extension of the Sadi vidya or somehow related to it?