Abhishek, do not worry, your efforts are helpful. For those of us who want to restore the platform, We must continue to do what we can. We must push to reinstate the sanctity of this platform and to bring it back to a state where it is benefiting others, to bring manblunder back to Sri Ravi ji's teachings, as is meant to be.

good points made, and excellent thinking from you krishna.

Please delete my entire comment then. There was no comment. There were some facts and conclusions or questions based thereon. What has been retained is hardly my comment. There is no point in retaining even that.

I wanted to let others speak more before commenting again but I will intervene. Manblunder has transitioned, over time, from a platform in which many people were benefitting and developing spiritually, into a platform where people are very confused and breaking the most foundational rules of sadhana; receiving diksha, followed by consistent focussed practice, and engaging in proven truth. Proven truth means, knowledge which has worked for others, not caused racing minds and confusion and the constant chasing of things that will take effect immediately. This is the foundational system we have had, because it works. The harm comes when practices and half baked knowledge which causes [racing minds, mental distortion, confusion] becomes prominent and individuals do not grow. Growth it not subjective. If your practice does not yield life changing results, then you are not using the right practice. If your sensory perception of the outside world, sensations in the body, and experiences with both the outside world and your own internal experiences does not drastically change, then what you are doing is wrong and you must seek out a path which works. It is this simple. Those of us who are ardently pushing for this are not doing so out of a superiority complex or some desire to be combative. We are doing this because of the suffering that is caused by poor practices and information being spread. Unfortunately there is a limit on what we can do to help those of you who do not have the sight to differentiate truth easily. I am sorry you are in this position Krishna and I truly hope that some day you come out of this noise you are in. Your mistake was in practicing such a multitude of mantras which has distorted your mind. Please go to India and find a guru who can prove himself to you beyond a doubt, instead of calling a white man on the internet in his 20s who lives in a city and does AI research as a mahasiddha and a guru.

Is it possible to significantly embody one’s ishta without losing so much individuality that it becomes undoable in this birth, to ascend all the way up to 17b and back down to 13 levels of consciousness? Something like having the ishta really permeating the subtle energetic system, physical body, and sitting at every cakra, while maintaining the right conditions to proceed to the highest levels of unique antaratman merger with cidagni and svatantrya? I am specifically curious if it is possible for a soul with cidagni to bring a manifestation of their ishta to the highest supremamental realms, and to share the embrace of the supreme in such a way that the Ishta also receives it and perhaps some very esoteric and brilliant things happen to the paired deity as well? For example, could a person with Bhuvaneshwari sitting in their Ajna cakra and fully awakened in them, proceed somehow all the way up to 17b with her awake in them, and through this process open some door to exceptional evolution even for an indomitably great manifestation of Parāsaktī like a mahavidya? Could the ishta devata find the highest attainment for themselves in the Leela of certain souls they linked to from their earliest differentiation?

Thank you for the insightful comments. Śrī Ravi ji's teachings are poised towards self-realization and attaining liberation, be they through Śrī Vidyā, Advaita, Trika or Kuṇḍalinī meditation. The path we choose is upon us with clear guidance from a competent guru. Whether it is mantra śāstra, meditation or Advaita or Trika, one must have a competent guru. Whatever information provided on this site does not negate the need for a guru. If seekers understand otherwise or go for self-initiation of advanced mantras, they will see no results in most cases. Even with a proper initiation and guidance, most sādhakas do not find progress due to karmic blocks, locked mantras or lack of performing the required saṁskāras or following the proper pañcāṅga paddhatis for the higher mantras. Yes, I have interacted one on one with Śrī Raviji for many years and he found some of us competent to moderate the comments on this site and has also entrusted the responsibility to publish articles of spiritual interest to help sādhakas all over the world. He understood the secrecy of the tantras but also felt that these secrets should be unlocked and made available to sincere sādhakas who obtained the necessary dīkṣa from their gurus. There will always be differences between what is expressed here and what may be practiced elsewhere in other traditions. There are numerous traditions, and they may all differ in their ways and methods, but the ultimate goal of tantra is liberation. One who is competent may succeed or even fail, both of which are attributed to the Divine and not to oneself. In fact, the art of losing oneself in the pursuit of the divine, is spirituality and the embodiment of tantra. Lastly, there is no sin in extending a helping hand to those in need and masters like Shri Tivra are competent to even much further and elevate even sinners to attain liberation. You are welcome to post your comments but feel free to put the entire blame on me and not on any particular person. I take complete responsibility for whatever is posted here on this website. If any sin has been committed, then let it add to my karma. May all the curses make their way to me and I shall happily welcome them at my doorstep!

God bless. My own guru has spoken on the work of Solomon and compared it to tantra, stating that there are many layers to the work and it is unlocked and understood through meditation and self dissolution into god, and that it is otherwise locked and fruitless. This is what I was talking about when I referred to tantra as relentless pursuit of the truth, as revealed by divine grace through nimitta. It is the same if we are talking of tantra or of Kabbalah. The Kabbalic system describes itself as being unlockable exclusively through grace. The Greater Key of Solomon (the lesser is forgery) is akin to Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam in that it acts as a "life manual" - as I have previously expressed - and that beyond the gross, its lessons are conditioned by the grace of its reader, much as you would say about a mantra that it is "cursed" for someone who does not have its diksha. It is the words of my guru that one who has attained some degree of siddhi through Shri Vidya is able to approach Kabbalah. The foundation of the teaching is not an easy shortcut through sigils and arcane syllables, but something that requires a lot of work and time. I have witnessed siddhi and power within my own lineage. You are inadequately describing this vayu of dharma which is shared by many others like myself as mudslinging. Debate in the name of divine truth cannot be sin and you should know and feel this. It is responsibility, one which you should feel much more stingingly than I, due to your quality as moderator of the virtual ashram of a respected parampara. From Lord Dattatreya, to Parashurama, to Ashvatthama, to Satyajitanath to Raviji. You repeatedly claim Tivra is a mahasiddhar. I will return your question: have you had any experience with siddhi in his lineage? Why do you mention him in the same breath as Guru Raviji, implying that he is on the same level? Can you assume that Revered Guru’s intention was to create doubts about the Shri Vidya system? Kabbalah’s wisdom, as I have said before, is in Solomon’s writing. You will see that its description of muhurtas and other astrological concerns are perfectly in line with Jyotish, as well as its allegorical passages describing powerful Pujas once revealed to the reader. Furthermore, which being, upon having discovered a self-sufficient source, would choose to reveal it unconditionally, as it has been done with the seal? Access to such a yantra is something you do not receive without the wisdom to not spill it sinfully to an unrestricted public of dubious intentions and levels of attainment. Surely you know this, and that Shri Vidya is the way of direct shaktipat, restrained transmission and personal experience. This is why I say it is baseless and diluted. It is not an immense contribution, but potentially a great harm to those undiscerning who apply everything they read without any discretion, as beginners tend to do. Sufficient grace allows you to progress from reading fabrications on 4chan’s paranormal board, but that does not mean it is optimal. Grace through sadhana by the guru’s command is the only way toward attainment. Jai Mata!

Dear Sir, have you or anyone from your lineage have any experience in Kabbalah or related practices? It is okay to disagree on what Śrī Tīvra has posted but let us not get overboard to the point of being venomous. No serious spiritual aspirant should indulge in mudslinging. I have followed the practices and many articles published by me, have the blessings of Śrī Tīvra and the content provided for these articles is also from him. If you believe the information provided by Śrī Tīvra is false and misleading, then please feel free to counter the same with solid arguments and explanations of the finer aspects of mantra śāstra and Śrī Vidyā in particular. I encourage your gurus and associates to also do the same in the interest of benefiting serious spiritual aspirants who frequent this website. The contribution to Śrī Vidyā by revered mahāsiddhar Śrī Tīvra is immense and places him in the same bracket as Śrī Ravi ji. This privilege is also bestowed upon Jothi, Tripuraghna and others who have contributed immensely to the content posted on this site. I offer my sincere obeisances to these stalwarts of tantra for their true compassion and service for the benefit of all.

I will signal my concerns on behalf of Guruji’s legacy. The diluted kabbalah practices rendered by Tivra are misleading and badly represented. False knowledge should not be encouraged. Truly, an individual should be able to discern these things for themselves, but it seems that you and surely many other readers are willing to baselessly entertain this system’s validity, disrespecting a website dedicated to a fruitful Shri Vidya lineage. Of course, feel free to go ahead if you’re on Reddit! The information is even more problematic when it comes from a commenter who seems to be respected and not without his fans, because it confers a dangerous sense of legitimacy. Grace of senior beings is an absolute necessity for siddhi, as implied in Jayanth’s articles. Tivra’s comments on the essential guidelines in this article sow confusion and divide and falsely promise burning of karmas in a way that is very damaging for the undiscerning members of the community. Lord Dattatreya tells us to respect all paths, but that also implies the necessity to take a stand against dilution and false teachings, and from you and others I see only encouragement. Kabbala is not without its merits and its core texts overlap almost perfectly with tantrik science, but the way in which Tivra presents it is completely irresponsible and dangerous. Siddhi, again, comes as a result of grace. And we must always be skeptical of would-be gurus who publicly disseminate allegedly miraculous methods of attainment. From my experience, persistence with Shri Vidya has opened sufficient doors for sustenance. It depends on the individual if these are opened wastefully or not.

*** Removing personal references and distasteful comments. Rest of the comment is reproduced as is.*** -- Krishna.  There are many ways to self-realization, that is true and it has been independently asserted by multiple sources. However, questioning the process of another tantrik like Kuru, of whose capabilities you truly have no idea about, is speaking wastefully and is infuriating to all who know him. Your assertions about the kundalini of other practitioners have absolutely no basis. Before you do that, and before promoting this practice or that practice, consider applying the teaching of integrated sadhana methods – one of which you can find even in Kabbala. It is much more important than this fruitless attempt at Bhakti yoga of declaratively loving everything while suppresing your discernment, willingly or not.