TRIPURA SUNDARI, the Great Cosmic Power of Beauty

  yogaesoteric February 2013
Read More...

What is a yantra? The world is often seen as a complex system by the tantric tradition and therefore requires a simplification, a reduction to essence up to the smallest details. Thus, a yantra is a linear or geometric, two-dimensional or three-dimensional drawing through which we accede to the essential source of the…
Read More...

According to some opinions, the name Tripura comes from two words "Tui" and other "Pra". Tui means water and Pra means near. This means that Tripura signifies a land with an area of water. Hence comes the transformation of Tuipra - in Tipra - and finally Tripura. According to the vision of other…
Read More...

The Great Cosmic Power Tripura Sundari can be visualized during a meditation as a deity whose form is "brighter than a million suns", and on top of her head she wears a crescent moon (which sometimes is shown as being formed right out of the goddess’s hair). Tripura Sundari is depicted with four arms, two of them…
Read More...

One of the most popular representations of the Great Cosmic Power Tripura Sundari is in the form of a sixteen year old young girl. This anthropomorphic vision of the goddess is known as Shodasi (which means "sixteen") or that of Bala (meaning - young girl). The age of sixteen is not accidentally chosen in this form of…
Read More...

When we refer to the transcendent divine matters involving the essential forms of consciousness and power of God, Tripura Sundari is associated to the indissoluble reality which is Cit-Shakti. In her aspect of pure knowledge, she is known as Samvit, which refers to the power to understand and perceive everything…
Read More...

"For God all things are Good, Beautiful and True; only to people, some things seem right and others do not."   Since the beginning of times, the sages have argued that beauty exists above all as a principle, overflowing, from its divine fullness, the good and the truth in the whole creation in a mysterious…
Read More...

Tripura can be translated as "that which comprises the three cities", "towns" or "cities" being a metaphor, because in reality they refer to the "three worlds" or gigantic spheres of God’s creation which are: physical, subtle (astral) and causal world.   Due to the…
Read More...