Transcending beyond ishwar?
I am curious to know. no baal ki khal. Just healthy discussion.
This is a hymn of the Great Goddess or
Para-Shakti, who here speaks to Mortals, declaring her Supreme Position in the Cosmos, as the power of all and power behind all; She is the Great Power of the Universe as Speech (Vak), by which Surya or the Sun-God himself knows the Veda. Whereas Indra is the Veda vidya or Wisdom of the Vedas and the Self, Vak or Para-shakti, the Goddess as Speech and the Supreme Power is called
Saraswati the ‘Essence of the self’ or it’s manifestation, hence Speech or Veda itself, by which Mortals like Manu and even Devas like Surya, receive the Veda.
She is hence the
power behind the Vedas as speech, word of the Sanskrit language, the sacred language of mantra or hymns of which, without which, we would have no Veda! The Goddess is
Iccha-shakti (Will-power),
Kriya-shakti (Power of action) and also
Mantra-shakti (The power of mantras) as also
Atma-shakti )The power inherit in the Soul or Self).
Parashakti is hence the great Speech of Veda, by which comes from Indra or Transcendent Wisdom himself, in manifest form. Here, the Yogi identifies himself with this Para-shakti, as the Veda itself and hence all Revelation itself, even that to the Devas or Gods.
Indra himself and the Gods however are powerless without the Divine Goddess,
Shachi or
Shakti, which is the consort of Indra in the Veda and corresponds to his
Ojas (vitality) or
Bala (strength), personified by the Soma and his drinking of it, granting this power, without which, he cannot slay the Ego-serpent, Vritra
And now let the powerful one accept the sacred-bowl filled with milk, white, filled with Shukra' (Rig Veda.IV.27.5)
Here is the transformation of the lower-energy about of the
Shukra or semen in the lower-chakras, representing the genital organs and lust, and it’s being transformed into the higher
Soma or immortality through the awakening of Kundalini from the base of the spine up to the Crown of the where, where it is transformed into this immortal elixir (Amrita or Ambrosia).The sacred bowl here is hence filled with
Shukra, the Divine Seminal Fluid, which is transformed to Soma in the Crown Chakra, when it is taken up the Sushumna, the middle-current in Yoga representing the subtle channel in the spine, through which one accesses higher powers, and through which the
Kundalini Shakti ascends as
Udanavayu, the up-moving air or breath, which has a purifying nature as a pierces the chakras and transforms this lower / base seminal fluid into the nectar of immortality in the Crown of the head.
That Shukra and Soma are both the drinks of Indra shows of the Yogic nature of this deity also, as also the Tantric connection to the two substances as two sides of the same coin. Shukra is also the ‘shakti-fluid’, and hence Indra being lauded as the Maghavan or ‘Powerful one’ or ‘One possessing power’.In the science of Ayurveda of Bhartiya Medicine,
Shukra-dhatu, that is, the seminal fluid is itself also the
Ojas or vitality in the body. This is why great Yogis seek to preserve it for strength (like Vedic Indra), and consume it internally only, meaning through
brahmacharya (observing celibacy).
In Tantric Yoga, this fluid is taken up internally from the base of the spine or sex-centre, up through all other chakras in the
Sushumna nadi or central Yogic current or channel, and transformed in the Crown of the head, as mentioned before. This is done as a process of “internal orgasm” if we like, and takes several years for advanced Yogis to master.It also shows that such great Yogis take their semen inwards and use it for spiritual purposes, by taking it to the Crown Chakra, where it becomes Soma, Celestial Elixir, rather than used for mundane and such or sexual pleasures alone, absed on lust and ego, represented again by Indra’s nemesis, Vritra in the Vedas, and also shows how and why Vritra must be destroyed, or rather, transformed. This is also same with Tantric-Yoga, and the basis of the Yogi-god Shiva as Kameshwar or the God of Love in Tantra and Tantric Sex!This is also the basis of a Puranic Story of the Yogi god Shiva, who swallows Asuramaya, the Guru of the Gods, who himself is called Shukracharya (Semen teacher) or the Planet Venus (also called
Shukra, meaning also “effulgent”).