The Star Path
By Dadaji Paramahamsa 999
Dadaji Paramahamsa 999
The Secret Tantra of the
Aeonian Transmission
Being the Sanskritised Text for the
Outer Court of Illumination
Prolegomenon
In the archaic days of great, fantastic ages, when the period was known as the Gnomon Era, some minor disturbance was heard and became magnified until it was audible above the thunder vibrations of the Himalayan Ranges. Snafu Raj, His Royalness and Ferocity, the Archon of Cockaigne, had entered the regions south of the Great Mountains with a large, noisy, and disordered army.
During their journey, although quite unintentional, they had looted small towns, raided villages, and sacked several caravans on the Silk Route. Eventually, the tired and overloaded army halted for rest in the city of Agartala in the state of Tripura. The days passed here in joyful idleness, but, by happy chance, Snafu was able to rent out his entire army, its paraphernalia, and mechanical devices to the Robber Baron of Bagnio, the internationally famous collector of precious relics, jewels, trinkets, and golden objets d’art.
A strong army was most necessary, and it helped to make the transfer of the property quick, possible, and complete. Thus, Snafu suddenly found himself free of all encumbrances, for he had made this long journey not only to collect the mundane treasures of the world but also to visit the shrines of this ancient melting pot and to visit the Kingdom of Kaverns, called Shambhala.
There he would now go, not to sack, but to seek, for the Royal Hooligan had also a pious streak somewhere deep beneath his brassstudded smock. It was ever thus. He resolved that he would lay some particle of the spoils he had gathered, small though it might be—at the feet of the Goddess Lalana Devi, whose image stood shamelessly in the Great Temple Complex of Shambhala. She was the symbol of attainment and the treasure of womanhood. Thus, Snafu Raj, filled with piety, hurried to Shambhala and reached the Kingdom in less than two months of hard travel.
The opening to the vast cavern complex of the city was very small, and the entrance passage quite narrow. There was no gate or door because, in the ancient days, Vishvakarman, the “Architect of the Gods,” had contrived a folding floor so that if anyone entered with an improper purpose or was not truly welcome, they would fall into a deep pit where they would be left to muse upon their folly. It was the remarkable mechanical device of Shambhala, made of stone and activated by a mantra, that made the city impregnable and discouraged casual “drop-ins.” Thus, because of the ingenuity of its construction, the entrance required no door, and this place of admission became known as Mirdwaja.
It was here that our great warrior was met by an old crone, and, after some exchange of compliments and ballsy conversation, she led him to the entrance of the Great Temple and vanished. For a man who had lived a life of travel, noise, and nonsense, the quiet tranquility of the temple was like pouring balm on a painful wound, and it induced relaxation and peace to his troubled mind. He sat for a while and delivered his prayers and offerings.
It was very difficult for him to take his eyes from the image because it stirred his deep, fiery emotions. But suddenly, a silent messenger appeared and beckoned him to follow. This the Raja did, and in a few moments, he found himself in the cavern of the Divine Guru Loadstar, the Enlightened Swan and Preceptor of Shambhala. Snafu was dazzled to behold him. Prostrating himself at the guru’s feet, he delivered a confused oration of praise, which revealed sincerity but conveyed little else.
The guru presented him with love, and gave his blessings, and asked, “The purpose of your visit is hidden behind a cloud, and your aura reveals no illumination. Would it not be better to state the purpose of your visit, for you sit on sacred ground, and the occasion requires an open heart and mind.”
Snafu wiped his face, blew his nose, and tucked his shirt in. “Vision of Wisdom,” he said, “although all things must be known to you, I can only say that years of despair and frustration lie behind me. Now I fear the future. How can I express myself except to ask that you give me the Loadstar Glim, which will illuminate my life and the knowledge to prepare for the future? The ghosts of the tomb may snatch my body from me, and my spirit will be left bewildered and in the darkness. Even now, my body drags, and I yearn for the fullness of the secret Wiz Way to eternal life. But what is eternal, and what is life? I cannot understand. It is that I would be overjoyed to know. From my boyhood, I have humbled myself at the shrine of the Mother Goddess, but now I must worship her by the many names that express the divine qualities and all the mental images of her nomenclature. Could you, O Benevolent Guru, who guard the great mysteries of the Devi, so instruct and reveal these to me?”
“Some of her names,” said the guru, “cannot be expressed, for they are numberless. Since she is all things and in all things, then every object, piece, or particle is her, and its name must also be hers. I will, however, within our limited time fraction, tell you of those important names that express the Devi and are the basic substances of our way of life.”
“Lord of Divine Vision,” said Snafu Raj, “grant me just that.” Thus, the guru revealed the mysteries of the Goddess by saying: The Tantra of Illumination by the Goddess is here promulgated.
We bow to the Supreme Goddess, the Mother Lalita,
For those who would drink her nectar and call her name
Will never again suck milk from the breasts of a woman;
When Spirit is free, then Earth birth cannot come again.
The Secret Tantra of Eternal Life
Said the guru: In the magick conjurations of the Cosmos, we must know the source and where the stream may end; for the world is a land of many windings, and only those who attain the Goddess can ever reach the Ocean of Nectar. Of all the world and everything contained in its wonderland, there are the God and Goddess known as Shiva and Shakti. But when Shiva and Shakti expand into the plenum of Space, their cosmic domain becomes the Great Ocean of Nectar.
In their sport and play, new vast stars are created, and they take up their abode on the Great Kailash, which is a mountain of stars in the center of the Galaxy. Here, they become known as Sadashiva and Lalita Devi and are the symbolic expressions of our magick thought. For only in this miraculous way can we understand them. But because there is no absolute duality in the cosmos, the God and Goddess are one in union and one to us.
Because of the aggressive nature of mankind today, it is better to conceive the Absolute always as the Devi, as the Mother of the Earth, of mankind, and of the cosmos. For before the Mother, who would dare to do great wrong? Will the love of the Mother make us want to love too? So, in this way, the Mother Ambika is the Mother Lalita, and we, who are born in her womb, are her children.
In the Outer Court of Illumination, the people pause and think, for this is the halting place before you enter the INO where determination and decision are essential and vital. Once you advance into the circle, you retreat to your sorrow, like the warrior who turns and runs away in battle or the hunter who turns his back on the great tiger.
This is the launching pad, if you are ready to begin and start your spiritual progress towards a new world of bliss. Shed all your negative ideas and fill the mind with positivity, until our Kula Chakras fill the wide world entire—and the dull dimensions of the past dissolve in fire.
“This is the launching pad, if you are ready to begin and start your spiritual progress towards a new world of bliss. Shed all your negative ideas and fill the mind with positivity…”
Of Lalana Devi, there is much or little that can be expressed, for Lalana has the meaning of a shameless female wanton who displays her body for the lewd love lurks of others and sports with erotic joys as a child sports with its toys. Hers is the embrace of the thunderbolt and celestial light, for she fulfills the joy and desire of all women and men. She is the symbol of female polarity and sensual delight, and her skin has the gleam and fragrance of the orchid.
“Of Lalana Devi, there is much or little that can be expressed, for Lalana has the meaning of a shameless female wanton who displays her body for the lewd love lurks of others and sports with erotic joys as a child sports with its toys.”
She is the explosive force of Nature with moonlit eyes, the Goddess of Nature, non-existence of all cosmic sound. Therefore, this Goddess is worshiped in the Fane of Shambhala.
HRING LALANA PRAKRITI NADA SVAHA
Hring is the seed mantra of Shakti Devi, and meaning is: manifestation, involution, and the great perfection. These are the qualities by which she is best known. As Hring, she is the Goddess Maya, the illusion of the world, so that the people may know that nothing by them is known.
Shring is the seed mantra of Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, but as price is not value, so wealth is not always money.
Kring is the mantra of the Devi Maha Kali, the Eternal. Although she is the Goddess of life, she also conquers death.
When Shiva desired the slaying of the demon Daruka, the Goddess Kali sprang from the light of his third eye. Because she was the will of the Lord, her fiery wrath did not abate, and she continued to merge her anger with destruction. Seeing the great confusion and its portends for the world, to dispel her anger, Shiva assumed the form of a baby. Only then was Maha Kali overcome with tenderness and love, and, taking the crying infant, she suckled it at her breast.
Because this child was the incarnation of Lord Shiva, it was called Kshetrapala—the Protector of the Earth. For a helpless baby did what Shiva himself could not do. Now the precinct of sacred ceremonies is called Kshetra, for it is the place where the rites of Kali are made complete.
Because she is tranquil, she is called Shanti Devi, of Peace. Even the great thunder of the cosmos does not perturb her. As Shanti Mata, she is the Mother of Peace and Tranquility, powerful in all her aspects and bestowing peace on the Kaulas. Even the grim tragedy of birth and death does not move her.
As Preta Devi, she is the Goddess of shades and ghosts, and, because of her energy, they cannot enter the magick circle. Although she works for their progress and spiritual evolution, she protects the Kula Chakra from the forces of darkness.
She is designated as Nitya Devi, for she is eternal. The Eternal, Eternity, and Foreverness are her form.
DIGAMBARI DIGAMBARI LALITA DEVI DIGAMBARI
“DIGAMBARI DIGAMBARI LALITA DEVI DIGAMBARI She is Digambari because she is clothed only in space…”
She is Digambari because she is clothed only in space; though the sky pours over her body, her beauty is not hidden, and even the air becomes sacred in contact with her flesh, and all Nature is adorned with her beauty and wonder. When people are beautiful, naked, and free, it becomes inauspicious to hide them with any apparel. Thus, she is also called Nirantara because of her nudity, with “nir” in this context meaning “without” and “antara” meaning “clothes” or “clothing.”
In space-clad nakedness, the yogis and yoginis perform the occult yoga of the secret Kaula cult. Thus, Kaula and Shakti revert to originality when they are nude; the sky alone they wear. This is the instrument of living natural joy, which no establishment can suppress in its meaning.
She is called Manasarovar Devi, the Goddess of the Swan Lake. She is the swan (Hamsa) who moves over the lake of the mind. In the secret and mystical lore of the Devi and Kaulas, there is the story of the supreme swan called Paramahamsa. When given a goblet of milk mixed with water, it can drink only the milk and leave the water behind. Such swans are rare, but even rarer is a Paramahamsa. Through this wisdom comes great magick power to devotees of Devi.
As Shyena Yaga Devi, she presides over the Grey Magick rites. They are called Grey Magick because it is the secret path of smoke, and those who are color-blind must proceed with great caution. Yantra diagrams are used in magick rites and in divine wizardry, are drawn to express the wish of the yogi’s conscious mind; to these are added the vibrations of the supra-conscious.
When ashes are consecrated by her name, they become Vibhuti, possessing magick qualities, vitamins, and Shakti power. When water is consecrated by her name, it becomes an elixir possessing the quality of nectar with fantasy and magick power.
When the name of the Devi or her yantra is inscribed on rice paper, it can be used as an amulet or magick signal. But if there is no imagination, the fertilizing power is absent. If these are burnt to ash, the ash can be used in the offerings, or, if dissolved in water, it becomes a liquid magick potion and may be drunk or rubbed on any part of the body. This is the magick of Punya—unlimited fortune or good luck.
The Goddess is called Kaulini. Her domain is the in-group. She presides over the Kula Chakra, which is the circle of action. Those who believe and take initiation as Kaulas are the yogis and yoginis of the New Aeon of Higher Tantrikas. They worship by the erotic ritual in explosive magick circles. As one lamp requires another flame to ignite it, so Kaula wisdom is onwards transmitted from one to another.
She is called Tara Devi because she is the Star Goddess.
She is called Kanta Devi because she is the Most Beautiful.
She is called Kanta Vilasini Devi because of her erotic sport-play.
She is called Santoshi Ma, the Mother of Contentment.
She is called Vama Devi because she rules the vama marga.
She is called Mohini because she is the Enchantress.
Men who behold her body become mad with desire;
Those who taste her lovely lips become inflamed with fire;
Those who touch her secrets soft, become insane forever.
Only a sorcerer with a powerful wand can ever subdue her.
She is “She” from whom the gods cannot turn away their eyes.
And She is the power of all wizardry and cosmic magick.
I tremble with fear when I measure the expanse of lightning
Or record the terrible vibrations of the thunder,
For who can know the dynamic forces that hide in the brain
Or when the Bindu Lotus, a thousand miles from nowhere,
Crackles, sparkles, and electrifies my saggy thinking?
Then I know my moment has come, and it is time to expand.
The Devi Shukla Samhita resides in the male semen, for she is the progenitrix and sparkle of all creation. This also names a form of esoteric in-group meditation practiced during sexual enjoyment. By the power of the Devi, one has time and place for everything.
In the auto-erotic rites of the in-group people, this information implies an esoteric injunction. The semen must be received in a piece of cloth, paper, or a small dish if it is to be an offering to the Devi. Semen must never be permitted to fall to the ground or onto a place polluted with unseemly impurity.
Because she is coiled like a spring, she is the Great Spiral, the symbolic path of development and great cosmic potential. She is designated as the Snake Goddess and Kundalini Devi. In this role, her magnitude appears no greater than a point on a grain of rice or a speck of dust poised on the tip of a sharp needle.
She is called Maha Shakti because she is infinite power and because she delights in the joyful festivals of Kaulas. Here, her name also means union of Shiva and Shakti and the explosive creative force of their divine enjoyment.
If the heart lotus experiences unpolluted happiness and the genital lotus explodes in great sensual joy, then the brow lotus will penetrate the deepest darkness, so that the brain lotus is swilled with esoteric delight. This is the transformation and transmutation of Kaula.
The Kula Chakra is a strange market
Where you can barter convention for bliss;
New thinking, new life, and it is off the wall,
And no crystal ball foretold joy as this.
If you think we are unconventional,
It is only because that is how we are;
So, do you think there is anything strange
When every man and woman is a star?
“So, do you think there is anything strange When every man and woman is a star?”
Mother Nature has ruled with true justice,
Sometimes the rod and sometimes a caress;
Yet never unfair as mere humans are,
And her ways do decide our happiness.
Tantrika is the path of liberation and also enjoyment, and now that the New Aeon of Aquarius is at hand, the secret rites and worship of the Devi begin again. The magick circle is the secret place where Kaulas go to sport with the Shakti for enjoyment by the Devi, for it is through mankind that the God and Goddess enjoys.
She is the scry-stone to penetrate the future, the divine insight, the shape of things to come: She is desire, the thing desired, and fulfillment. She is strength, fortitude, and the unbreakable substance. She is effort, perseverance, and the will for great success. She is fame, and all the universe knows of her wonder. She is Svaha, the terminator of mantras, whose form is fire.
She is Raga Devi because she is the cosmic passion. She is called Nir Ahamkara, meaning without ego, and the Kaulas know that ego breeds self-destruction. Nirvikalpa Devi is unconditioned, eternal knowledge. Durga because she is deliverance to all the Kaulas, for she, who rides a tiger, destroys the dark demonic.
She is Durgartishamani, terminator of customs, because by her power, the evils of society and politics—the rat race, establishment, power, and other evils—are destroyed when we have awakened to the meaning of life, nature and mankind’s real purpose on Earth.
She is Niranjana because she is the stainless. For the Devi and her Kaulas are above worldly stains, and those, now divine by her grace, can do no wrong.
She is Lata Lalana, the Creeper Woman, because no man can escape her creeper-like embrace, which is the delightful imprisonment we enjoy.
This is the jigsaw where many pieces are lost or missing,
But you will find them, one day, hidden in the mind.
This is the way of life which is full of contradictions,
Where positive becomes negative and then to change again.
Ours is the shifting sand of a universe in motion,
Yet the Kaulas can float in its real stability.
What can we expect when it is all a reflection and a fantasy world,
One must view in a mirror—to see that the real and unreal are but images
Where left becomes right and right becomes left,
And the mirror is exalted as the scry-stone of life?
But when the reflections are viewed in a second mirror,
We find ourselves at the feet of Sarva Mohini Devi,
The stability of the unstable and instability of stability,
The sacred qualities where permanence is impermanent.
Did not the Devi give different races their scriptures?
A cosmic joke so that the stupid would be bewildered;
For the absence of discrimination brings its own suffering.
Our unmarred purity of innocence, faith, and belief
Is but a revelation of the inner depths of Nature.
When the dark curtain of civilization is pulled aside,
We rend the veil that hides the Supreme Devi
And know that the inner flame within is not extinct.
The Phoenix, our real, must someday rise again
From the ashes of a burnt and dreary life.
By our simple magick, we will change our sordid world
And then in Mother Nature’s arms, become a child once more.
A purer air, less oil upon the tide, and life returns.
The seeds will burst, and forests will abound.
Though we cannot stay long upon the Earth,
We’ll leave it, if we can, much better than we found it.
She is Sandhya Devi the Goddess of Twilight, for in the Umbra Zonule, we meditate on her, where injunctions and prohibitions are for the ignorant. Ours is the essence of joy and spirit to be tasted.
As Indradhanush Devi, she is the Goddess of the Rainbow, for the celestial bridge is brilliant with its colors. The rainbow cannot manifest without rain, and the Devi remains hidden without insight. Just as the crystal is tinted by rays of different colors, her qualities differ among her devotees. She is not attained by one of an unstable or fickle mind, but when we are guided by Supreme Light, we attain it. Are we not Tuath Dé Danann—children of the Goddess?
Those who can, by numerology, determine the number of the names will attain the numbers of their own numerical harmonies. Thus, Lalita Devi = 3 + 1 + 3 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 9 = 41 = 4 + 1 = 5. This is the number of Mercury and the neutral number in the numerology of the I Ching.
The name Lalita Devi consists of ten letters, and of these, five are vowels and five are consonants. This is the number symbol of harmony and balance. The number 5 is symbolized by Mercury, the messenger. It is the sexual pleasure-seeking number of the senses and the number of versatility, investigation, and adventure. It embraces 2+3, the Moon, feminine and changeable, plus the spiritually creative with sexual overtones. The number 5 is May, the fifth month of the festival of Maying, and May is an archaic term for a young woman. Where in the cosmos is there such rhythm as this, where we grasp the meaning of the cosmos by name and form?
The Tantric Cult of the Supreme Mother Goddess is based on the teaching of the immortality of the spirit; a devout reverence for Nature and Natural Laws; except for those confined in towns and cities, she loves the energy centers and shrines of real nature; the transmigration of the spirit by death and rebirth; the division of time by rhythmic cycles and seasons; and divine guidance in life by oracle, prophecy, and divination.
Then the guru spoke as Shiva himself: Because of her, Kama (Manmatha) was destroyed, but because of her, I restored the body of Kama again. Thus, the Devi is also called Kama Devi because she came to me in the secret place in the mountains for the sake of her delightful desire and fiery passion. She is the desiring, the desirable, and the fulfillment of desire.
The eternal Devi wears the mask of many millennia because our entire universe is an enigma, mystery, and secret, where Lalita is pleased with the secret ways of the Kaula. But the real secret of secrets is her own fantastic reality. The goddess was born in the fire of cosmic consciousness, and her myriad manifestations are her supreme will, so we call her Lalita because she is the essence of joy.
The Devi is known by the name of Maha Siddhi
Because she is the giver of all the great attainments:
To give you taste when there is nothing to be tasted,
To make you hear when there is nothing to be heard,
To make you weep when there is nothing but great joy,
To make you laugh when there is nothing but sad sorrow.
She will give you equilibrium in the cosmic suspension.
The science of astrology is the key to her vast kingdom,
And the oracle is her voice and our understanding.
Alchemy is the science of her power of transmutation, and
Magick is the supreme science of all attainments.
She is Tripura Devi, the Triple Goddess, who is One.
She is Holy Trinity of maid, bride, and crone.
Thus, was she known as Morrigan, Macha, and Badb.
She is Selene, Diana, and Hecate, the Full, the Phased, and the Hidden.
As Kumbha Devi, she is the ruler of the sign of Aquarius.
As Maha Bhoga, she is Goddess of the Great Enjoyment.
She is the Measurer, the Measuring, and the Thing Measured.
The wine is ancient, but the bottles are new.
So do not keep the bottles and throw away the wine.
Bank notes are not left in lavatories,
As toilet paper is not stored in vaults.
How can this paper have such different value if
Mohini and Maya were not their creators?
2,000 years of darkness marked the Kali Aeon, and the sign of Pisces brought deceit and intrigue. These developed as murder, oppression, and hunger—where thinking was burned in the fires of auto-da-fé1, and the bounty of the Earth became so contracted by the greed and avarice of those who rose to power. People were pressed into one identical mold because the rule of the dark requires only a race of robots, where the people threw dice in a game they could not win.
The Dark Age ends, and Aeon of Aquarius will begin, but mankind, has been given the choice of curse or blessing. The New Aeon cannot flourish if the thinking is Pisces. Though Nature endures much the same, mankind must attain a new and higher level of better thinking if a Golden Age of peace, freedom, and happiness is to begin. Therefore, the Kaula Tantrika way of life asks its people to shed the brainswill conditioning of their dingy past and approach life and living with a new way of think. For think is the first initiation into a higher way of life.
“Therefore, the Kaula Tantrika way of life asks its people to shed the brainswill conditioning of their dingy past and approach life and living with a new way of think. For think is the first initiation into a higher way of life.”
Ages will come and go, and only the cosmos remains eternal.
For she who is all that was and is, and always will be, is the Divine Mother of a million names and countless aspects. She is the secret cave of the ancients and the pagan cults, the golden womb of rebirth and of magick we attain. She alone conceives the space of nothingness before the galaxies.
She is the alembic and womb of transmutation in all alchemy. She was the oracle of Greece and stonemason of Stonehenge. She is the hag, the Saturnalia, and the rites of spring, she is the Bacchanalia and the flavor of its wine.
Our far-out fantasy of ageless lore and joy of life. She is Titania, the Goddess of Shakespeare’s dreamtime world. She is the Ganges, the Danube, the Thames, and the Seine. She is the supreme Greatness who rules the King of Kings.
The goddess Albion rules the islands of the White Goddess, and because of her power, she can and will destroy all evil, for she will never forget her people if she is not forgotten.
This Devi is the alchemist, enchantress, the witch, and wonder, the serpent, the pythoness, and the salamander of the sorcerers. Excalibur, the magick sword, was forged by her in fantasy. Why did men call her Isis, Hathor, Aphrodite, Circe? She is the spirit of woodlands, mountains, and Queen of Faerie, and the greatest grace to us is the gift of She, Herself.
“The greatest grace to us is the gift of She, Herself.”
In the center of the mind is a point beyond infinity. It is called the Bindu Chakra and is the seed of all. The Shakti of the Cosmos dwells ever in this secret point, and she activates it with her nectar of the Moon. In this Bindu, there is neither time nor space nor death; it is the center of all freedom and devoid of any fear.
The Devi is the Creatrix of this fantastic Bindu Chakra, and by her supremacy, we become free from attachment, for she is meditation, meditator, and object of meditation. This becomes the esoteric process to destroy samsara, and by this, one will enjoy the nectar of wisdom.
“In the center of the mind is a point beyond infinity. It is called the Bindu Chakra and is the seed of all. … In this Bindu, there is neither time nor space nor death; it is the center of all freedom and devoid of any fear.”
Therefore, the Devi is designated by Hring Shring Kring—they become the seeds of enjoyment for all the Kaulas, and our way of life becomes magick, might, and magnitude.
Thus ends the Tantra and its mystic coded clockwork. Forget not the name of Lodestar and the Mother Goddess. For this is only the seed that other minds will multiply, so that the literature of the Aquarian Age will be complete.
1 “Act of faith” as a judicial sentence against a perceived heresy.
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