प्रसन्नवदनाम्भोजां प्रोद्यद्बालार्कसप्रभाम् रक्ताम्बरां रक्तमाल्यां नानालङ्कारभूषिताम् | सस्मितां दिव्यकन्याभिः क्रीडारसपरायणाम् ध्यायेत्कुमारिकां बालां स्वभक्ताभीष्टसिद्धिदाम् || For a śākta upāsaka, whether belonging to śrīkula or kālīkula, worship

    सप्तसप्ततिभेदेन सुन्दरी तु प्रतिष्ठिता | चत्वारिंशत्प्रभेदेन भैरवी भुवि कीर्तिता || भुवनेश्यष्टभेदा स्यान्मातङ्गी पञ्चधा स्मृता | कमला शतभेदा च षट्त्रिंशद्बगला स्मृता || धूमावती पञ्चभेदा

  दीक्षाशब्दव्युत्पत्तिः दिव्यं ज्ञानं यतो दद्यात् कुर्याच्च पापसंक्षयम् | तस्माद्दीक्षेति सा प्रोक्ता देशिकैस्तन्त्रवेदिभिः || तस्याः प्रकारान्तरम् अथवा गुरुणा सम्यग्दीक्षणाद्देवमन्त्रयोः | दीक्षेति कथिता सद्भिः सर्वपापप्रणाशिनी ||

  – Vesna A. Wallace The Kalacakratantra summarizes its fundamental philosophical views in this single verse: Identitylessness, the maturation of karma, the three realms, the

    कर्णोपान्ततरङ्गित कटाक्षनिष्यन्दि कर्णदघ्नकृपाम् | कामेश्वराङ्कनिलयां कामपि विद्यां पुरातनीं कलये || In the prologue to Rahasya sahasranāma of Lalitāmbikā, Bhagavān Hayagrīva instructs the sādhaka-varga

    श्यामवर्णविशिष्टत्वात् श्यामला | 1. She who is of a dark (bluish-black) complexion is named Shyāmalā. श्यामलासु प्रधानभूतत्वात् राजश्यामला | 2. She who is

  Achārya Amr̥tavāgbhava was born in Allahabad in a Maharashtrian Brāhmaṇa family of traditional Sanskrit Scholars from Vārāṇasī in 1903 A.D. In 1919, when he

  – Dr. Shashibhushan Das Gupta The metaphysical dialectics of the Shūnyavādin and the Vijñānavādin Buddhists prepared the ground for the monistic conception of the

  Sādhanā is of various kinds in Tantra. However, in essence, the primary goal of tāntrika sādhanā is Bindu-siddhi. The Buddhists term the Bindu as

    -Prabhas Kumar Jagannātha-purī or Puruṣōttama kṣētra has a great antiquarian value in art, architecture, literature, religion, and tradition. For centuries, it has been

    If one observes Lalitōpākhyāna attributed to Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, one can see that Viśukra was killed by Mantriṇī or Rājamātaṅgī: विशुक्रं योधयामास श्यामला कोपशालिनी

  – Swami Lakshman Joo karaṅkiṇyā krōdhanayā bhairavyā lēlihānayā | khēcaryā dr̥ṣṭikālē ca parāvāptiḥ prakāśatē || (Vijñānabhairava) At the time of vision (of oneness) (while

    One of the frequently asked questions is – which among the several āmnāya mantras does a śrīvidyōpāsaka recite every day? Amnāya mantras are

    Akāra – Kādividyā kūṭa – sr̥ṣṭi krama 1. Siddhalakṣmī 2. Siddhikarālī (Bharatōpāsitā Guhyakālī) 3. Siddhikarālikā (Rāmōpāsitā Guhyakālī) 4. Siddhacaṇḍakapālinī 5. Kāmakalā Guhyakālī [Uttarāmnāya

  – Jnanendralal Majumdar’s introduction to the Shakta commentary of Acharya Sri Satyanananda Sarasvati.  The final authority on which Tantra as every Shastra rests is