August 13, 2O22
As a visual artist, the Sri Chakra always fascinated me. I have seen it endorsed by Masters online as a potent sadhana for many years, but I have never really met one then who is a Sri Chakra sadhak. It was not until a few years ago, maybe five years ago, that I had this strange experience. I was listening and watching this Sri Chakra sadhana on YouTube for several weeks not really knowing much about it. I just liked how it sounds and how it looks. Divine Feminine sadhanas, of course, always resonated with me as being in a female body.
One night I had a dream, but it was a dream that lingered until my waking hours and it felt so real and so vivid. When I woke up, it was as if I could still see it, actually them. I saw this huge diagram, a Sri Chakra yantra like drawn on the ground in 2D and there were ladies in saree sitting in each triangle and space symmetrically, almost equidistant to each other. The ladies were real women or Beings I might say, definitely humanoid looking and each one wearing a different saree design. All with very long hair. They were sitting with closed folded legs together, not in a lotus posture but on one side, a very feminine pose. Like how most women sit when riding a motorcycle at the back, but almost sitting on both calves on one side. Strangely, they look very quiet and almost asleep but sitting down and head almost looking down sideways. They looked like they all needed to be woken up. The astonishing part for me, was that a few were missing, maybe four or six of them. At that time, my intuition was telling me that, the activated ones who were absent went off to another world for errands and the rest were waiting to be called or activated to be able to get to work. That experience started me off to research more online about it and to my biggest surprise, I found online that there are actually goddesses inhabiting each space of the Sri Chakra. It blew my mind.
I saw it but I did not know that. Well, at least in this lifetime.
For about a month now, I would colour at least one page of Sri Chakra with crayons a day. I tried watercolor, but it did not work out very well and the colours were fading. Sometimes, I would play the Sri Chakra chants online aloud or Hreem or any Divine Feminine chants while colouring. Sometimes, just any chant I feel like listening too, like a Babaji song and sometimes without any music background. I did not really feel any dramatic effect until.. one day, within that month, I attended a Catholic mass dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Mother Mary, who is celebrated once a week every Wednesday. Within that hour of mass celebration, was a devotion arising in my heart. It was something I have never experienced before with Mother Mary although I have been painting Her for over four years now. My heart just bursted open to Her and felt that all encompassing compassion and love for Her. A certain gentle loving power. I sure did not see that coming. I realised that devotion truly, as they say, to awaken, requires sadhana.
I think of Sri Chakra as our body and each stage are layers to our heart. It is an invitation to enter into ourselves, balance and go deeper.
Last night, I was rewatching the videos of Om Swami on Sri Chakra and Yantras. The Sanskrit Channel also offered some information for me as well as Raja Chowdury. Paramahansa Nithyananda speaks highly of the Sri Chakra and I have met him personally. The tantric Sri Chakra guru Sri Amritananda Saraswati offers rich information.
to be continued...
As a visual artist, the Sri Chakra always fascinated me. I have seen it endorsed by Masters online as a potent sadhana for many years, but I have never really met one then who is a Sri Chakra sadhak. It was not until a few years ago, maybe five years ago, that I had this strange experience. I was listening and watching this Sri Chakra sadhana on YouTube for several weeks not really knowing much about it. I just liked how it sounds and how it looks. Divine Feminine sadhanas, of course, always resonated with me as being in a female body.
One night I had a dream, but it was a dream that lingered until my waking hours and it felt so real and so vivid. When I woke up, it was as if I could still see it, actually them. I saw this huge diagram, a Sri Chakra yantra like drawn on the ground in 2D and there were ladies in saree sitting in each triangle and space symmetrically, almost equidistant to each other. The ladies were real women or Beings I might say, definitely humanoid looking and each one wearing a different saree design. All with very long hair. They were sitting with closed folded legs together, not in a lotus posture but on one side, a very feminine pose. Like how most women sit when riding a motorcycle at the back, but almost sitting on both calves on one side. Strangely, they look very quiet and almost asleep but sitting down and head almost looking down sideways. They looked like they all needed to be woken up. The astonishing part for me, was that a few were missing, maybe four or six of them. At that time, my intuition was telling me that, the activated ones who were absent went off to another world for errands and the rest were waiting to be called or activated to be able to get to work. That experience started me off to research more online about it and to my biggest surprise, I found online that there are actually goddesses inhabiting each space of the Sri Chakra. It blew my mind.
I saw it but I did not know that. Well, at least in this lifetime.
For about a month now, I would colour at least one page of Sri Chakra with crayons a day. I tried watercolor, but it did not work out very well and the colours were fading. Sometimes, I would play the Sri Chakra chants online aloud or Hreem or any Divine Feminine chants while colouring. Sometimes, just any chant I feel like listening too, like a Babaji song and sometimes without any music background. I did not really feel any dramatic effect until.. one day, within that month, I attended a Catholic mass dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Mother Mary, who is celebrated once a week every Wednesday. Within that hour of mass celebration, was a devotion arising in my heart. It was something I have never experienced before with Mother Mary although I have been painting Her for over four years now. My heart just bursted open to Her and felt that all encompassing compassion and love for Her. A certain gentle loving power. I sure did not see that coming. I realised that devotion truly, as they say, to awaken, requires sadhana.
I think of Sri Chakra as our body and each stage are layers to our heart. It is an invitation to enter into ourselves, balance and go deeper.
Last night, I was rewatching the videos of Om Swami on Sri Chakra and Yantras. The Sanskrit Channel also offered some information for me as well as Raja Chowdury. Paramahansa Nithyananda speaks highly of the Sri Chakra and I have met him personally. The tantric Sri Chakra guru Sri Amritananda Saraswati offers rich information.
to be continued...
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