AATHREYA-Dr.Bala Krishna Murthy Ramaraju ---- SHAKTHI WORSHIP

May 25, 2007

Dr.BalaKrishna Murthy Ramaraju ( aathreya ) of Gartha Puri

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Marlborough , MA , USA

Friday , 2007-05-25

SAKTHI WORSHIP :

DASA ( TEN ) MAHAA VIDYAAS ----

1. KAALIKAA DEVI

2. THAARA DEVI

3. CHIN MASTHAA DEVI

4. SHODASI DEVI

5. BHUVANESWARI DEVI

6. THRIPURA BHAIRAVI DEVI

7. DHOOMAAVATHI DEVI

8. BAGALA MUKHAA DEVI

9. MAATHANGI DEVI

10.KAMALAA DEVI

AATHREYA

May 26, 2007

Hello one and all: Here is a link on Mahavidyas which you may find interesting. Here is an extract from the article i presented in the web site. i intentionally used lower case i because there is only one I (AHAM) that is Brahman, which gives rise to all liitle i-s llike us. Krishnaraj http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/MAHAVIDYAS.htm Mahavidyas and Mandalas: Mahavidya means great knowledge and refers to a female deity; there are ten such deities. Knowledge is transcendental and all that is known, unknown and yet to be known. What Mantra is to a male

god is Vidya to a goddess. Mantra or Vidya consists of one or more syllables with or without meaning, words, or phrases representing (being) the sound-body of a deity; there are ten great Mantras or Vidyas. The question comes up as to who devised these Mandalas, the concentric configuration of geometric shapes. Here is an explanation. The west is of the opinion that the Hindu mind (brain) is wired differently. Let us compare Joe Schmo of West and Go Schlo of India. When JS goes from A to B, he forgets A and knows and thinks of only B. Not so with GS, who still remembers A and the present B and considers any other prospective point in the future. Both of them go to C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J,K,...Z in a random

or sequential manner and come back to A. As JS goes from one point to the next point, he forgets the previous point and concentrates on the present one. But GS does not forget his previous point. If both of them take a random walk from point R to A to N to D to O to M, JS thinks only of his last point M; that is linear thinking. But GS thinks of RANDOM, as if he has persistence of memory. Hindu thinking is nonlinear, clustery, configurative, (progressive-conservative) according to Troy Wilson Organ. This persistence of memory is the basis for the concept of metempsychosis and making Mandalas. In modern terminology, it is connecting the dots. JS does not think his past life haunts him; GS thinks that his present life is a continuation of the past life. That is why GS keeps saying all day long, it is the past karma that haunts him at every turn. When GS takes a walk right along the alphabets configured in a circular fashion, GS makes a Circle in the Mandala. If he walks on ABC, he makes a triangle. ABCD makes a square. Now you get the idea. This geometric thinking has to have a point of origin and point of return, which are one and the same in Bindu (the point, the seed). Bindu is that unique point from which all radiations connect all points in the compass or circle; that is global geometric thinking. That radiation from Bindu is the basis of Pravrtti, the evolution of the universe and beings. The return of all those radiations back to Bindu is the basis of Nvirrti, the involution of soul back to Bindu. GS knows where he had been, where he is and where

he might go. That gave him the concept of the past, present, and future. Krishnaraj http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/MAHAVIDYAS.htm "Professor B. Krishna M.Ramaraju" <dr.balakrishnamurthy.ramaraju wrote: Dr.BalaKrishna Murthy Ramaraju ( aathreya ) of Gartha Puri<dr.balakrishnamurthy.ramaraju >Marlborough , MA , USAFriday , 2007-05-25SAKTHI WORSHIP :DASA ( TEN ) MAHAA VIDYAAS ----1. KAALIKAA DEVI 2. THAARA DEVI 3. CHIN MASTHAA DEVI4. SHODASI DEVI5. BHUVANESWARI DEVI6. THRIPURA BHAIRAVI DEVI7. DHOOMAAVATHI DEVI8. BAGALA MUKHAA DEVI9. MAATHANGI DEVI10.KAMALAA DEVIAATHREYA