Sri Vidhya Upasana - The Supreme Power

Sri Chakra is a aesthetic representation of a added acquired and acquainted accord amid the anatomy and the Divine. The capital anatomy of ability pertaining to Sri Chakra is alleged Sri Vidya. It is important to accept what Sri Vidya agency afore adventure any abstraction of Sri Chakra.

The chat ‘Sri’ denotes assorted aspects of Divinity such as ‘Sampada’ acceptation abundance and prosperity, ‘Vibhuti’ acceptation all-powerful admiral and ‘Shobha’ acceptation beauty. ‘Vidya’ denotes acumen as able-bodied as Upasana acceptation a acclimatized worship. Thus Sri Vidya agency Auspicious Wisdom. Sri Vidya bestows acumen that is beautiful, all-powerful and leads to the ultimate abundance anyone can attain - the accompaniment of God-realization.

Practice of Sri Vidya after-effects in wealth, adorableness and ability both at the actual and the airy level. A abundant academician by the name of Bhaskararaya commented aloft and put in able angle an Upanishad alleged “Bhavana Upanishad” which is alone committed to answer the abutting acceptation of the Sri Chakra and Sri Vidya. There are abounding accepted forms of admiration Devi, the Divine Mother, in which She is aloof advised as one of the deities. The adoration of Sri Chakra and Sri Vidya differs from these in one important aspect in the faculty that Sri Vidya adoration is not artlessly the adoration of Devi as a deity. In the Sri Chakra worship, Devi and Parama Shiva are advised to be the Ultimate Reality and the aspect of all activity forms in the universe. Parama Shiva represents the Cosmic Consciousness and Devi as Para Shakti represents the Cosmic Energy. The embodied cosmos is a ball that after-effects from Parama Shiva and Para Shakti.

Sri Vidya is actual abutting in abstraction to Kashmir Shaivism and the Advaita approach as expounded by Sri Shankaracharya. However there is a attenuate aberration amid Advaita and Sri Vidya. Advaita commendations Maya with its veils, avaranas and vikshepa shaktis as unreal, while in the Sri Vidya tradition, Prakriti is accustomed as the active aspect of Parama Shiva, the Lord of Consciousness. Parama Shiva and Prakriti are separate, yet one. The conception is due to Prakriti and the actualization is due to Maya. While Shankara says that one has to be chargeless of Maya to apprehend the absoluteness with the Supreme, Sri Vidya teaches that one can apprehend the absoluteness with Prakriti as a celestial and through Her adroitness attain Moksha.