UNIT 1 Dasa Maha Vidyas

Vidya Funct Chakra Worship As

1. Kali Unmanifest Mula Uterus Mother
2. Tara Nextlife Svadhis Vulva Wife
3. Lalita Aware All 7 Body Guru
4. Chandi Powers Manipur Navel Mentor
5. Shyama Bind Anahata Breasts Child/Lover
6. Chinna Detach Vishuddhi Neck Friend
7. Dhuma Dust Larynx Stars Unknown
8. Bagala Silence Mouth Tongue Advisor
9. Varahi Time Ajna 3rd eye Surrender
10.Kamala Beauty Sahasrar Crown Wealth

Place of Sri Vidya in Dasa Mahavidyas

Sri Vidya (female deity) means and includes a pro-life desire (iccha), knowledge (jnana), and
power ( kriya ) of Goddess –Sri vidya helps you choose desires wisely, puts control over their
fulfillment in your hands, and helps you fulfill them.

10 great paths for achievement (Siddhis) called Dasa Maha Vidyas - Kali - Tara – Sri Lalita–
Chandi - Shyama –Chinnamasta – Dhumavati – Bagala mukhi –Varahi – Kamala. Their names
and forms suggest their places in body and functions.

1. Kali means the power of time, kaala. She brings forth the light of life, organized awareness
from unorganized matter. It is connected with menstrual flow, blood, semen and birth, and so it
is worshipped in the uterus (kalasha) in females and phallus (linga) in males and in the pleasure
of coitus. Intercourse is called the root support, or adhaara chakra for the wheel of life. Uterus
is called the sacred vessel, the holy grail, which has all life giving ingredients.

2. Tara means a bridge, from life to after life. We continue to live as our children after we die.
Purpose of Nature, Tara, is to produce babies. She uses sexual pleasure to induce males and
females to copulate, and produce life. Tara is worshipped in the clitoris the point and vulva the
triangle, the pleasure centers in females; and in phallus in males. These centers are together
called Swadhishtana, the own place of Goddess and God.

3. Lalita is the pure awareness, covering all forms of awareness here. She balances all chakras.
She is the harmony of the wheels. She is the most beautiful. She is the mother of fine arts,
music, dance, sculpture, acting. She is identical with God-Guru.

4. Chandi (also called Bhairavi) is the fire of life. She supports life by forming it for 9 months
inside the womb of mother nourishing it through oxygen from her blood. In this function, she is
called Mahakali. At the time of birth, umbilical cord is cut and the baby starts breathing and
living on its own. During this phase, the baby is nourished by the milk in mother’s breasts. This
second mother is called Maha Lakshmi, the daughter of the ocean of milk. The milk protects the
baby from diseases providing immunity. It also helps it grow. Mahalakshmi protects and
nourishes the baby, preventing male advances during lactation period. After lactation the
baby’s fire of life is sustained by knowledge, taught by Maha Saraswati. Thus Chandi’s story is
the story of three mothers. So she is called Tripura Bhairavi meaning the fire in three cities. She
is worshipped in and through the breasts, navel and genital centers. Her expressions are blood,
semen, milk, digestion, and growth. The defining attributes are MahaKali = Dharma = duty to
reproduce life, Maha Lakshmi= Artha = Protect and increase power and abundance, Kama =
Enjoy a life of love and bondage. Bhairavi’s main center is the navel.

5. Shyama is the power of attraction, creating love through bonding. The two hemispheres of
breasts with their wet nourishing poles of nipples suggest merging them into a single sphere;
they are the centers of attraction asking to merge two into one. Once the lactation is over, they
serve to attract the male to the female for fresh erotic contacts, the cause of bonding love and
relationships.

6. Chinnamasta means severed head, life after death. She connects earth with the cosmic
elements. For this purpose, levitation, weakening gravity and bonding to earth; and
strengthening connection to interstellar space are necessary. She is drinking the blood of her
own life. Under her feet are a couple engaged in coitus. The woman is on top guiding the
movements, meaning that intercourse is the way to go beyond life and come back .

7. Dhumavati works with forces in galactic dust to form stars. The star is considered male
(Sun). She doesn’t need a star to create stars; therefore she is shown as a widow, capable of
creating life without the necessity of a male. She makes us realize the illusory nature of the
world of experiences, like vortices and shadows in smoke. She is worshipped in the throat
where Uvula hangs down in the space from root of upper palate.

8. Bagalamukhi suggests stilling the mind by control of tongue and making body immobile, the
conditions for a still mind. Speech, chattering, should be controlled. She is called Brahma Astra
Vidya meaning she is the weapon to reach the creative source. She is worshipped by keeping
awareness on mouth.

9. Varahi is a Kalpa, an astronomical unit of time. She represents mastering time and the
unthinkable powers coming from it. She is worshipped at the third eye to control evil.

10. Kamala is the beauty and order creating the physical world through dreaming
incomparably beautiful visions in the crown chakra.

In summary, all cosmic powers reside in and are derived from life in persons.
Kali is worshipped in Base chakra, Tara in pleasure of clitoris, Chandi in navel, Shyama in
breasts, Chinnamasta in neck, Dhumavati in throat, Bagalamukhi in mouth, Varahi in Third eye,
and Kamala in crown; these are the wheels of power residing in different parts of body. Lalita,
the order of beauty is worshipped in all parts.

Modes of worship in all Vidyas– In Chakras called Samaya– In Yantra called Dakshina In bodies
of Living persons called Kaula .