The Veera Sadhana

As is the competency of the sadhaka (male practitioner) so also that of the sadhika (female practitioner). Only by this is success achieved and not in any other way, even in ten million years - Mahakalasamhita, quoted in Shakti and Shakta, Woodroffe

(This English translation of chapter 13 from the Brihad Nila Tantracovers meditation and the vira sadhana (heroic worship, which includes sexual intercourse) of Mahakali. It also outlines the principles of svecchacharya (the path of acting according to one's will) which is central to the Kaula school of tantra.)

Sri Bhairava said: Now I speak of the supreme mantra of Mahakali, bestowing all poesy. Listen attentively, O Maheshani. She is the primordial one, Prakriti, the beautiful woman, the primordial knower, with kalas, the Fourth, the ultimate mother, the boon giver, the desirable one, the lady of heroes, the giver of success to sadhakas.

She, the primordial one, Mahaprakriti, Kali, the true form of time, whose great mantra of all mantras is the ocean of mantra, she alone gives all success to a sadhaka who wants it. The destroyer of anxiety, giving boons, seated on a corpse, gives all desires, O Devi, and creates all marvels.

In this matter, purification of mind and determination as to defects or enmity in a mantra are unnecessary. In sadhana with this great mantra, there are no restrictions as to time, nor day, lunar mansion or obstacles caused by lunar mansions and so forth. Nor in Mahakali's sadhana is it necessary to consider guru.

Listen, Vararoha, to the all-poesy bestowing mantra. Two Hrims and two Hums, followed by three Krims and Dakshine Kalike, then pronouncing the previous bija mantras in reverse order, putting in front of it Om and Svaha last, is the mantra of twenty three syllables, the ultimately beautiful mantra. Using this king of mantras causes a person to become like Shiva, there is no doubt of it.

Bhairava is the rishi of the mantra, Ushnik is the metre, Mahakali is the Devi and Hrim is the seed. Hum is the Shakti and its application is well known. Vararohe, listen to the meditation. Reciting it gives siddhi, its practice gives the power of attraction, and it causes pashus to become viras.

I worship the greatly beautiful one, with limbs the colour of thunderclouds, who is naked and sits on the corpse of Shiva, who has three eyes and earrings made of the bones of two young handsome boys, who is garlanded with skulls and flowers. In her lower left and upper right hands she holds a man's head and a sword, her other two hands bestowing boons and banishing fear. Her hair is greatly dishevelled. Using this meditation, worship and satisfy the Paramesvari.

Listen, beauteous one, to the Gayatri, which gives all knowledge when recited. Saying Kalikayai and vidmahe, then say shmashanavasinyai dhimahi, and then tanno ghore pracodayat. Devi, after reciting it twenty times, it is the giver of all prosperity. Recite it 20,000 times to achieve success in its preparation. Do homa of a tenth part, oblation of a tenth part of that, and abhiseka of a tenth part of that. Then feed Brahmanas. Do everything necessary within the sadhana, then dismiss Devi and throw the pot into water.

I speak now of the great ritual which bestows both the visible and the invisible. Mantras become successful using this rite, which is to be performed in the first or third watch at night, and are powerless otherwise.

O Mahesvari, do vira sadhana in a house, or elsewhere on earth. Make a small platform strewn with bunches of plantain leaves and place on this a pot smeared with vermilion. In the pot place mango shoots and wine made of khadira blossoms, as well as asvattha and badari leaves. Also place in the pot pearl, gold, silver, coral and crystal and then strive to accomplish vira sadhana.

Draw a matrika cakra, placing the pot on top of it. A mantrin should put it on a cloth, facing the northern direction. After worshipping with various substances, one should offer food, unguent, mutton and the most attractive sorts of food. Then, O Devi, offer curd to the great goddess.

Have there a young and beautiful girl, adorned with various jewels. After combing her hair, give her tambula and draw two Hrims on her breasts, Aim on or near her mouth, and draw two Klims on either side of her yoni. Drawing her towards you by her hair, caress her breasts and then place the linga into her yoni pot.

O pure smiling one. Recite the mantra 1,000 times, O sweet faced one. Dearest, one becomes accomplished by doing the rite for a week. Maheshani, recite the mantra not in the manner written of in books, but in her yoni. This brings mantra siddhi, there is no doubt of it. So, Devi, the secret thing giving all desires has been declared to you. One should not reveal it, one should never reveal it, Maheshani.

O Naganandini, at the risk of your life, never reveal it. It is the giver of all siddhi. I cannot speak of the magnificence of this mantra. Had I ten thousand million mouths and ten thousand million tongues, I could still not speak of it, O Paramesvari.

It is the most secret thing in the three worlds, very hard to obtain, the great pitha Kamarupa, giving the fruit of all desires. Maheshani, reciting in this way gives endless fruit, if, by the power of good fortune one attains this pitha. O Maheshani, after reciting the mantra there, it gives endless fruit. Bhairavi, siddhi resides in that high place (described in) this tantra, without doubt.

Om Aing Hring Kling Chamundayai Vicche

Guhaya Kali

 Name Kaushikidevi generally means Goddess Durga or Enveloped with silk, is of Indian origin, Name Kaushikidevi is a Feminine (or Girl) name. Person with name Kaushikidevi are mainly Hinduby religion. Name Kaushikidevi belongs to rashi Mithun (Gemini) and Nakshatra (stars) Sravana,Mrigashiras. Name Kaushikidevi is associated to God/Goddess Durga / Parvati

Devi Koushiki

Revealing the reasons for Goddess Durga’s re-incarnation, sage Pulastya says- “Goddess Durga is also known as Kaushiki as she had manifested from the cell (Koshika) of Uma’s (Parvati’s) body. After the manifestation, she went to Vindhya Mountain with the objective of killing the demons- Shumbh and Nishumbh. She was accompanied by numerous Bhoot ganas (spirits).

Kaushiki is a Hindu Goddess. She is an affiliation of Shakti. Her beauty had attracted many asuras who met her as messengers in her glittering beautiful palace. She was a great woman warrior, raised on her fierce lion or tiger. This form of her fierce fire was the essence of her beauty. There are many temples for her worship. She also has 8 hands and sword, chakra, lotus, etc. in them

Once Lord Shiva and his consort Parvati decended on earth. But due to Lord Shiva's miracle, Parvati's complexion turned dark. This made her angry for that and upset because of Shiva. She harshly meditated on the Kailash Mountains. She shed her skin and out appeared of her third eye a black-complexioned Goddess, Kaushiki. All this was linked to the death of the two demon brothers Shumbh and Nishumbh. These two demons had driven away the Gods away from heaven. Kaushiki used to live in an amazing palace singing praises of Shiva. Shumbh and Nishumbh came to know about the Goddess's beauty and decide to take her as their wife. They sent Sugriv first to Kaushiki in order to take her to the heavens, to the brothers. Sugriv came to Kaushiki's palace, Sugriv asked her politely, in a kind, respectful and sweet voice to come to Shumbh and Nishumbh at the heavens. Kaushiki told him that she will marry the one who defeats her in a war. Sugriv understands, he tries to make her understand and convinces her but he fails. Sugriv conveys this to Shumbh and Nishumbh back at heaven, they were very angry and sent Dhumralochan and his army to get Kaushiki at heaven with force. Later, after Sugriv had gone, Parvati came to see how Kaushiki was doing, but not for long. The demon soldiers of Dhumralochan were singing his praises. Parvati and Kaushiki heard this, they created soldiers to guard the palace. Parvati took the form of Goddess Jagadamba with ten hands holding weapons, decked with ornaments, wearing a crown, wearing a red saree, having a fair complexion and astrided on a lion. Kaushiki took her warrior form having the same features as Jagadamba, except she rides a tiger, wearing a yellow saree and has eight hands holding weapons. They both came to the battlefield and spotted Dhumralochan and his army. Dhuralochan's army attacked Jagadamba and Kaushiki with their weapons. Both Kaushiki and Jagadamba attacked them back with their own. Until it was finally time when Dhumralochan attacked the lion of Jagadamba with his arrow, Kaushiki was very angry and from the flames of her anger of her mouth and her third eye incinerated Dhumralochan and his army. Jagadamba congratulated Kaushiki on killing Dhumralochan and his army. Shumbh and Nishumbh came to know about Dhumralochan's death and Jagadamba this and sent Chand and Mund to kill Jagadamba and to kidnap Kaushiki. Chand is the brother of Mund, who has his head always banging from right to left and left to right. Meanwhile Kaushiki applied medicine on Parvati's lion, still in the form of Jagadamba. The saints and Gods did prayers to Kaushiki to kill the demons and to give back Indra's heaven. The demons of Shumbh and Nishumbh reached earth and tried to kill the Gods and saints. Kaushiki appeared in her warrior form and killed the sent demons of Shumbh and Nishumbh. Chand and Mund came to Kaushiki and Jagadamba with their soldiers. On seeing the uncountable number of soldiers, Kaushiki and Jagadamba third eyes started to emit fire and took the shape of a new Goddess. The newborn Goddess had terrible appearance, which is: She is portrayed wearing a girdle of severed human hands, a garland of human skull heads representing the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet or a garland or flowers, for her clothing, she wears tiger skin like Lord Shiva. She has three eyes that symbolizes past, present and future and sometimes, when she gets too furious, her eyes looked bright red. She has two dead heads for her earrings. She is often shown having four hands holding scimitar, demon head, trident and container, and often trident, sword or iron weapon and thorn like weapon made out of thorns, often she is portrayed having four hands holding scimitar or sword in the left hands and a severed demon head in upper and lower left hands while the remaining two on the right are the hand gestures of boon-conferrings and fear-dispellings. And now she has sharp claws like a lioness. She started to attack the demons by blowing a storm out of her mouth, turning them into ashes (burning them alive), beheading their heads, decapitating them by eating their skin alive, eating them alive, scratching them, choking them, stabbing their chests, drinking their blood, breaking their bones, breaking their necks, twisting their hands and legs and swinging them away. When Chand and Mund's army was gone, she beheaded them and presented them to Kaushiki and Jagadamba. They both gave the Goddess's name as Kali Chamunda now because she killed Chand and Mund. Shumbh and Nishumbh has gotten new news about the killing of Chand and Mund and their army. They were very angry and sent a new demon called Raktabeej, he has accumulated from the Gods. Meanwhile, Goddess Durga appeared to Jagadamba, Kali and Kaushiki. She learnt about Raktabeej and there is a big war of bloodshed, to provide the Goddesses extra power, she created nine Goddesses by the names of Brahmani, Maheshwari, Kumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Narasinghi, Indrani, Shivadooti (Ambika) and Chamunda. All holding weapons or not holding weapons, riding a swan, bull, peacock, eagle, ram, lion, jackal/lion/tiger/owl/corpse. Durga created one more Goddess, by the name of Chandika. When Raktabeej came with his army, he was terrified seeing the 14 Goddesses, so was his army. Kumari cut off Raktabeej's head, but whatever the drop of Raktabeej's blood falls to the ground, another new Raktabeej arose, the 12 other Goddesses, even Durga and Kaushiki tried but no use. Jagadamba assigned Kali to drink the blood of Raktabeej prohibiting it from falling on the ground. Jagadamba pierced her trident in his chest and Kali widened her tongue to an incredible size and ate the demons and Raktabeej up. All other Goddesses praised her. Jagadamba retransformed herself into Parvati told Kaushiki to go inside Kali's body then Durga's after the death of Shumbh and Nishumbh. Durga told Chandika to go inside Parvati's body and Parvati told the nine Goddesses to go inside Durga's body. So everyone went inside their correct places. Except Kaushiki, back at heaven, Shumbh was having a nightmare in which Dhumralochan, Chand-Mund and Raktabeej kidnapped a beauty. The beauty became Parvati and choked Shumbh's neck so hard. Nishumbh was in control of the throne and got the news of Raktabeej's death. Later, after Shumbh's naptime, Kaushiki and Kali were on their own. Shumbh and Nishumbh came with a final large army. Kali killed the army and Kaushiki killed Shumbh and Nishumbh. The Gods were very happy and Durga, Parvati, Chandika, the nine Goddesses were all happy

Seven Matrika