Kurukullā (Tibetan: ཀུ་རུ་ཀུ་ལླཱ; also Tibetan: རིག་བྱེད་མ་, Wylie: rig byed ma "Knowledge/magic/vidyā Woman",[1] Chinese: 咕嚕咕列佛母 "Mother-Buddha Kuru[kulle]" or Chinese: 作明佛母 "Knowledge-Causing Mother-Buddha" #SanatanaDharma #Buddhism #Spirituality
She is a peaceful goddess as against a semi-wrathful Yidam in Tibetan Buddhism particularly associated with rites of magnetization or enchantment. Her Sanskrit name is of unclear origin. She is related to Shri Yantra in Hinduism. #SanatanaDharma #Buddhism #Spirituality
Depicted in red with 4 arms, holding a bow & arrow of flowers in one pair of hands, a hook & noose of flowers in the other. Dances in Dakini-pose, crushes Rahu (one who devours the sun). As per astrology, Rahu is a demon head snake (Navagraha), represents ascending lunar node.
She is considered either an emanation of Amitābha, one of Tara's forms, or a transformation of Heruka.
She could be seen as the star of the Dakinis, a beautiful, modern celebrity endorsing a cause; she projects this divine & Enlightened beauty to attract us to Dharma.
She uses her enchanting “magic” to remove obstacles to our practice.
Note: Her proper name is Kurukulla. Only the mantra uses the vocative form (Kurukulle) of her name. #SanatanaDharma #Buddhism #Spirituality
She is as popular today as she was hundreds of years ago. As a Dakini, a Higher Tantric practice, she is the “very cause of wisdom” — her Tibetan name Rigiyedmna (རིག་བྱེད་མ) literally translates as “she who is the cause of knowledge” #SanatanaDharma #Buddhism
While she has her own tantras & rituals, she is considered an emanation of Tara: Tarobhava Kurukulla, “Kurukulla who arises from Tara” (Red Tara: sgrol-ma dmar-po.) As described in "Practice Manual of Noble Tara Kurukulla“, translated from introductory Kangyur text commentary.
Kurukulla is all about enchantment. Like other Tārā emanations who may use their divine beauty to attract & influence, Kurukulla takes this to an erotic extreme. Its the exotic “magical” aspects that have kept Kurukulla, the Passionate Lotus Dakini, popular both now & earlier.
Though she is often linked with attractionb& magnetizing — an aspect of red Lotus Amitabha family, Chenrezig & Hayagriva — she isn't a mundane deity. Despite depictions of her magnetizing powers as “magical,” they are not for corrupt aim of attracting a mate, money or luxuries.
Like other emanations of Tara, she is about the “activities” of compassion, in this case attracting and enchanting. And, like all Taras, this is a skillful means to help us remove obstacles in our own practice, by attracting good fortune to the Sangha, or to the practitioner.
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Also because He is the destroyer of the devatas, as per a Smrti shloka quoted by Svaami Vijayeendra Teertha Shripaadagalu, in Shaiva-Sarvasva Khandanam of Nyaayamauktikamaala.
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ब्रह्माणमिंद्रं रुद्रं च यमं वरुणमेव च ॥ ८६ ॥
निगृह्य हरते यस्मात्तस्माद्धरिरहोच्यते ।
Being the destroyer who destroys Brahmaa, Indra, Rudra, Yama & Varuna, he is known as ‘Hari’.
Shukracharya: A great knowledgeable person who was respected even by Devas and Saints. He was an expert in Political Science. He founded the Shukra Niti. In his niti he has laid down the following points:
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One should never reveal certain things in front of others.
It’s great if you are loved and respected by all, but don’t show it off in front of others- doing so will lower your respect in the eyes of others
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If you have to face insult at any point in your life, it’s best to keep it to yourself; telling that to everyone you know will make you feel insulted in front of others as well.
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Tantra is an abstract religion, it doesn't have a clear definition. Different seekers define it differently, many not even consistent with each other. Tantra, though, is clearly recognized as being very different from the ancient Hindu Vedic tradition. #SanatanaDharma#Hinduismtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Before trying to delve into tantrism, it is important to understand that this is not a single coherent system. It is rather a tradition that gradually evolved from an accumulation of practices and rituals, in order to attain the grace of the divine. #SanatanaDharma#Hinduismtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The practitioner of tantra uses his own prana or divine energy in order to harness it to the universal prana, thereby attaining his goal. The goal in question could be either spiritual, material or both. #SanatanaDharma#Hinduismtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Tantra in Hinduism could be considered to be parallel to the Hindu Vedic tradition. Tantra contains written records of the Agama, which comes in four main parts, as follows: #SanatanaDharma#Hinduismtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jnana or metaphysical knowledge
Yoga or meditative practices
Kriya or ritual practices
Charya or ethical and religious principles of conduct #SanatanaDharma#Hinduism
Most of the staunch Hindu Vedic practitioners, however, consider the Tantras to be anti-Vedic in character and hence, altogether shun both the cult and the practitioners of the same. #SanatanaDharma#Hinduismtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The universe consists of a Mahabrahmanda, or grand Cosmos, and of numerous Brihatbrahmanda, or macrocosms evolved from it. As is said by the Nirvana Tantra, all which is in the first is in the second. #spirituality#Cosmostwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In the latter are heavenly bodies and beings, which are microcosms reflecting on a minor scale the greater worlds which evolve them. "As above, so below." This mystical maxim of the West is stated in the Vishvasara Tantra as follows: #spirituality#Cosmostwitter.com/i/web/status/1…