BEAUTY. Call on the Goddess of Beauty when you are ready to see the divine alive and well in all things. As the source of inspiration and the fountainhead of eternal beauty, Tripura Sundari leads you through the world of nature to experience the Divine. She grants the perception and knowledge to see the eternal timeless truths manifest in the world around you.
TRIPURA SUNDARI MANTRA
KLEEM
The Goddess Tripura Sundari is the beauty (Sundari) of the three (Tri) realms (Pura). She is the divine feminine who is the primal shakti energy. Seated upon a throne like a queen, she is adorned not only with the most beautiful gems and clothing, but by the gods themselves in all aspects. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva — the trilogy of birth, life, and death — surround her; Saraswati and Lakshmi often flank her on either side. Beneath her is the reclined Shiva. She is sparkling red, either naked or clothed in fine red cloth symbolizing the ecstatic state, and appears brighter than a thousand Suns, with a crescent moon resting on her head.
Tripura Sundari is worshipped through the Sri Yantra and this Shodashi Yantra — Shodashi meaning her form as a sixteen-year-old, the age of radiant beauty and full creative power. Of all the Mahavidyas she is the third emanation and the one who dwells in all places. She is also known as Lalita, the grace-filled one; Kameshvari, the One whose nature is desire; Sri Vidya; and Raj Rajeshwari, the governess of all of creation. Here the embodiment of Tantra as a sexual, sensual, palpable, loving expression takes form. With her worship the intertwining of desire, sexuality, expressive speech, and spirituality become one. The divine is alive and well on this earthly plane — and it is here, too, that you can connect with the sublime.
Tripura Sundari is described across many of the Tantras, the sacred scriptures of the gods and goddesses and their role in creation. Her appearance stories shift from text to text. Generally she is said to have arisen as the force of creation at a time of destruction and imbalance, re-creating the whole universe out of her desire. In another story, to attain the love of Shiva, she transforms into this stunningly beautiful form to reveal her radiance across the three realms. One lovely story tells how the gems from the crowns of the gods fell at her feet as they bowed to worship her, and were then used to adorn her. She also appears in a more inward aspect — in the Himalayas, worshipped by sages and ascetics, wearing a tiger skin, a snake for a garland, her hair in dreadlocks, covered in ash and flowers. This is hardly fierce; it denotes her inner dimension, akin to Shiva in deep meditation, the ecstatic state turned within.
If you are drawn to this image of Tripura Sundari, use the mantra KLEEM and gaze at the center of this Yantra. It will bring you the inner knowing that you are in the right place at the right time, and that your innermost desires are beginning to take form. When this starts to happen, she who is beautiful will start to emanate from your heart and manifest around you. This is the path of ecstatic bliss. As your mundane realms begin to merge with the mystical, you will see beauty everywhere. Jai Ma!
BEAUTY. Call on the Goddess of Beauty when you are ready to see the divine alive and well in all things. As the source of inspiration and the fountainhead of eternal beauty, Tripura Sundari leads you through the world of nature to experience the Divine. She grants the perception and knowledge to see the eternal timeless truths manifest in the world around you.
TRIPURA SUNDARI MANTRA
KLEEM
The Goddess Tripura Sundari is the beauty (Sundari) of the three (Tri) realms (Pura). She is the divine feminine who is the primal shakti energy. Seated upon a throne like a queen, she is adorned not only with the most beautiful gems and clothing, but by the gods themselves in all aspects. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva — the trilogy of birth, life, and death — surround her; Saraswati and Lakshmi often flank her on either side. Beneath her is the reclined Shiva. She is sparkling red, either naked or clothed in fine red cloth symbolizing the ecstatic state, and appears brighter than a thousand Suns, with a crescent moon resting on her head.
Tripura Sundari is worshipped through the Sri Yantra and this Shodashi Yantra — Shodashi meaning her form as a sixteen-year-old, the age of radiant beauty and full creative power. Of all the Mahavidyas she is the third emanation and the one who dwells in all places. She is also known as Lalita, the grace-filled one; Kameshvari, the One whose nature is desire; Sri Vidya; and Raj Rajeshwari, the governess of all of creation. Here the embodiment of Tantra as a sexual, sensual, palpable, loving expression takes form. With her worship the intertwining of desire, sexuality, expressive speech, and spirituality become one. The divine is alive and well on this earthly plane — and it is here, too, that you can connect with the sublime.
Tripura Sundari is described across many of the Tantras, the sacred scriptures of the gods and goddesses and their role in creation. Her appearance stories shift from text to text. Generally she is said to have arisen as the force of creation at a time of destruction and imbalance, re-creating the whole universe out of her desire. In another story, to attain the love of Shiva, she transforms into this stunningly beautiful form to reveal her radiance across the three realms. One lovely story tells how the gems from the crowns of the gods fell at her feet as they bowed to worship her, and were then used to adorn her. She also appears in a more inward aspect — in the Himalayas, worshipped by sages and ascetics, wearing a tiger skin, a snake for a garland, her hair in dreadlocks, covered in ash and flowers. This is hardly fierce; it denotes her inner dimension, akin to Shiva in deep meditation, the ecstatic state turned within.
If you are drawn to this image of Tripura Sundari, use the mantra KLEEM and gaze at the center of this Yantra. It will bring you the inner knowing that you are in the right place at the right time, and that your innermost desires are beginning to take form. When this starts to happen, she who is beautiful will start to emanate from your heart and manifest around you. This is the path of ecstatic bliss. As your mundane realms begin to merge with the mystical, you will see beauty everywhere. Jai Ma!
