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Pritham Bhagvati:
Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Namo Namo
Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Namo Namo
Narayana, Narayana, Narayana, Namo Namo
Kundalini, Shiva Shakti, Shiva Shakti, Namo Namo
Kundalini, Mani Shakti, Mani Shakti, Namo Namo
Kundalini, Shiva Shakti, Shiva Shakti, Namo Namo
This is our chant to Lord Shiva after our daily Chakra Deity devotion. The real meanings given for:
1. Pritham Bhagvati - All that the Beloved Godhead has created
2. Sarab Shakti - The all-encompassing power and energy
3. Narayana - “Resting place for all living entities” (It is also used as a name of Vishnu)
4. Kundalini - The circular, coiled yogic life force at the base of the spine
Subjective Dimension of the Pritham Bhagvati Chant for this website:
‘Pritham’ is like the medieval ‘prithee’. It is as though we were to speak to a person in reverie, and said first, ‘excuse me’. Thus we gently prepare the sensitive consciousness of the Deity for our address. ‘Bhagvati’ is ‘beloved’, or ‘dear one’. We are practicing courtesy, and being considerate. ‘Namo’ is, of course, ‘name of God.’
‘Sarab Shakti’ we will use in a special way. Praying to the picture of Shiva, we turn to the Chakra Deity from whom we have just supplicated a boon (please look at my life right now, and give me what, if anything, I need to stimulate me), and think that in saying ‘Sarab Shakti’, pronouncing it ‘Sorab Shakti,’ we are, with Shiva’s help, absorbing what that Deity has sent for us on that day.
‘Narayana’ is the archetypal human form that Krishna created, and is hence the ideal toward which we all strive. Invariably, the person closer to the archetype will be accorded the most regard by others. As we chant it, we are expressing our desire to grow toward Krishna’s intent, and to become what one of these is supposed to be.
Kundalini is our innate God-power, latent at the base of the spine. It is metaphysical; neither it nor the “nadis” it flows through can be physically seen. The major nadis are threefold; sushumna at the center, ida and pingala twining around them. The caduceus is one reference to them. Normally a small amount of kundalini energy is always flowing along the nadis, through the chakras.
In the classic spiritual path, the amount of kundalini energy is increased, and it is induced to rise through the sushumna until it reaches sahasrara chakra, where it unites with Lord Shiva -- natural since it is His shakti, or energy. This journey takes place over many lifetimes.
It is said that kundalini is the source of your every utterance, and that if it ever ceased to flow in you, you would be dead.
Techniques for increasing kundalini energy are for serious practitioners of the spiritual path -- really only about 5%-10% of the people alive now are eligible for that. Most people, shouldn’t worry about it; we only want to be aware of that reality, and to acknowledge it.
To repeat: this website is not intended as an entry point for the spiritual path proper; whether and when a person is ready for that is his own call. Many of the techniques given on this site frankly tap the power of spiritual-path ways, but they do so much as an orchid attaches itself to a tree. It is possible to be a sort of mobile orchid, moving from tree to tree to avail ourselves of roots, but we should not be surprised if we sometimes become an “oar-kid” in that sense as well.
As a divinity, kundalini is classically personified by Vajra Yogini, visualized as a virginal maiden of 16 years, red, large of size, wearing a mirror-breastplate held in place by beads made of human bones, her right hand held aloft and bearing a large curved knife, her left arm crooked around a long staff, holding in her left hand a human skull filled with human blood, having on her head a tiara of five dried human skulls, wearing a necklace of fifty human heads dripping with blood, the right leg bent with foot uplifted, and with the left dancing upon a prostrate human form.
On the spiritual path, there is talk of “leading kundalini forth” etc., but everybody winds up obeying it. It is, after all, the Shakti of Lord Shiva, the very Godhead Himself. In the chant, Kundalini, Mani Shakti, Mani Shakti, Namo Namo, “Mani” simply means “boy”. He is the boyform-shakti of Lord Shiva.
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