KNOWELDGE. Are you ready to do it your own way? Call on Matangi, the rebel Goddess of Knowledge. Matangi cultivates a command over speech, creativity, learning, music, and the fine arts. Dwelling in her presence one removes disharmony from life, replacing it with balance, purity, and harmony.
MATANGI MANTRA
AIM
Pronounced like "I'm"
The Goddess Matangi is the ninth Mahavidya, the Great Wisdom Goddess, and the Tantric form of the more popularly known Saraswati. Both are deities of the arts, knowledge, writing, and music. Both are depicted playing the veena and ruling the cosmic sound currents, the nada.
Matangi is the inner transformative energetic impulse — called upon when you are asked to do things your own way, to purify society in some form, to be unorthodox, to express yourself without restraint. She appears in two forms. In her benign form she is seated upon a lotus, one leg in half lotus, the other pointing down to the earth — a gesture symbolizing her role in bringing the divine teachings into earthly form. She is beautiful, with green-tinted skin, wearing red cloth and jewels, her veena and throne bedecked in gemstones. In her wilder form she arrives in an erotic, untamed state — hair loose in dreadlocks, dwelling in the forest, wearing menstrual blood-stained cloth. She welcomes such garments as prasad, along with wine, meat, and other so-called untouchable offerings.
Both forms are accompanied by the green parrot, symbol of speech and manifest sound. Matangi makes your creative visions take form. If you are writing a book, performing music, or studying a language, this deity will be in your midst.
Her unorthodoxy is the point. Where Saraswati holds the pure teachings, Matangi embraces the impure — and reveals it too as sacred. In one story from the Tantras, Parvati tricks Shiva into recognizing that what he thought was impure was also the Goddess, and therefore pure. Seeing the Goddess in all things, Shiva proclaimed Matangi worthy of worship. In another story, a boon descended upon a lower-caste forest family, gifting them a daughter who transcended class and was to be worshipped as the highest. As this came to pass, the scriptures flooded into Matangi's consciousness. She can also be invoked simply by reciting the Sanskrit alphabet.
Worshipping Matangi clears the Saraswati Nadi, the channel that rises to the third eye and ends at the tip of the tongue, emphasizing the centers of speech, neck, and throat. And yet her deepest home is the heart. Known also as Shyamla, the dark one, she cultivates tenderness — a softening toward yourself and an opening to love. The love between lovers and the higher love of the divine mother Lalita. In Sri Vidya, the path of tantric study and practice, this is a necessary evolutionary step. Through the Matangi mantras and offerings, she creates the love that attracts the deeper powers. She is the great attractor — drawing others to you, dissolving opposition, bestowing spiritual gifts and strength. Matangi attracts divine inspiration itself.
May your creative channels be clear and may you attract the purest love on earth. Jai Ma!
KNOWELDGE. Are you ready to do it your own way? Call on Matangi, the rebel Goddess of Knowledge. Matangi cultivates a command over speech, creativity, learning, music, and the fine arts. Dwelling in her presence one removes disharmony from life, replacing it with balance, purity, and harmony.
MATANGI MANTRA
AIM
Pronounced like "I'm"
The Goddess Matangi is the ninth Mahavidya, the Great Wisdom Goddess, and the Tantric form of the more popularly known Saraswati. Both are deities of the arts, knowledge, writing, and music. Both are depicted playing the veena and ruling the cosmic sound currents, the nada.
Matangi is the inner transformative energetic impulse — called upon when you are asked to do things your own way, to purify society in some form, to be unorthodox, to express yourself without restraint. She appears in two forms. In her benign form she is seated upon a lotus, one leg in half lotus, the other pointing down to the earth — a gesture symbolizing her role in bringing the divine teachings into earthly form. She is beautiful, with green-tinted skin, wearing red cloth and jewels, her veena and throne bedecked in gemstones. In her wilder form she arrives in an erotic, untamed state — hair loose in dreadlocks, dwelling in the forest, wearing menstrual blood-stained cloth. She welcomes such garments as prasad, along with wine, meat, and other so-called untouchable offerings.
Both forms are accompanied by the green parrot, symbol of speech and manifest sound. Matangi makes your creative visions take form. If you are writing a book, performing music, or studying a language, this deity will be in your midst.
Her unorthodoxy is the point. Where Saraswati holds the pure teachings, Matangi embraces the impure — and reveals it too as sacred. In one story from the Tantras, Parvati tricks Shiva into recognizing that what he thought was impure was also the Goddess, and therefore pure. Seeing the Goddess in all things, Shiva proclaimed Matangi worthy of worship. In another story, a boon descended upon a lower-caste forest family, gifting them a daughter who transcended class and was to be worshipped as the highest. As this came to pass, the scriptures flooded into Matangi's consciousness. She can also be invoked simply by reciting the Sanskrit alphabet.
Worshipping Matangi clears the Saraswati Nadi, the channel that rises to the third eye and ends at the tip of the tongue, emphasizing the centers of speech, neck, and throat. And yet her deepest home is the heart. Known also as Shyamla, the dark one, she cultivates tenderness — a softening toward yourself and an opening to love. The love between lovers and the higher love of the divine mother Lalita. In Sri Vidya, the path of tantric study and practice, this is a necessary evolutionary step. Through the Matangi mantras and offerings, she creates the love that attracts the deeper powers. She is the great attractor — drawing others to you, dissolving opposition, bestowing spiritual gifts and strength. Matangi attracts divine inspiration itself.
May your creative channels be clear and may you attract the purest love on earth. Jai Ma!
