About the Book The present book is an english rendering of Sri Vidya saparya vasana written in Tamil by Sri N Subramonia Iyer, the founder of the Brahma vidya vimarsini Sabha,. It embodies the ideas given in the course of his lectures to the members of the sabha explaining the philosophic background or the philosophic import of the several sections of Srividya form of worship.
The original being in Tamil was foundunable to satisfy the enquiring minds of the those beyond the few Tamil knowing upasakas. It was therefrore deemed necessaty to translate the book to reach a wider circle of devotees who by their prolonged practice of worship seeking no reward, have come to enquire the truth behind what they have been doing. It is also meant for those who owing to the study of wrong sources have entertained views about the ritual prejudicial to the real understanding of the philosophy that it inclulcates.
Foreword SRI VIDYA stretches away into a remote, none the less unfading, past. The spirits of heaven seem to dance and sing with the rising Sun. Waves, and spirals of sound convey the music of the spheres. Cones of heat and electrons of movement wake the slumbering world and rouse the passions hidden in the unconscious. Outlines of form and spheres of colour unfold the lotus of blooming beauty and awaken sensuous dreams and soft desires. No won der, Upanishads differentiate the spheres of Sun, Moon and Fire in the Solar orb. These have corres ponding spheres in the macrocosm and microcosm, and suggest the triple (tripuți) in Chakra and Mantra.
Introduction (I deem it to be a rare and unique privilege to write this Introduction not because I deem myself to be, like the author, a Srividya adept who alone could aptly and worthily write an Introduction to this great work, but because the request (which I honour as a command) courteously made to me to write it gives me the valued chance of linking my name with the author's name and enables me to place a few, albeit faded unlovely scentless, flowers of adoration at the lotus feet of, the Uni versal Mother.
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