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         PARA SHAKTI INVOCATION

            (Invocation for Para Supreme Shakti)

Ganesha graha nakshatra

Yogini rashi rupinim

Devim mantra mayim naumi

Matrika pitha rupinim

 

I open myself to receive those teachings that reveal the light of knowledge in me.

 

Ganesha      Divine mother (Gana and Isha the orders ruling the universe)

graha           Planets (karmas)

nakshatra    Constellations (karmas)

Yogini          Divine mother that guides the path, power, knowledge, shakti, wisdom to

                    receive perfection in yoga

rashi            12 astrological houses the meridians in the body

rupinim        Is identical (as in Ganesh identical to the divine mother )

Devim         Divine mother

mantra        Mother of all mantras a way to approach Ganesha (though mantra)

mayim        One who is identical to Ganesha

naumi         I pray

Matrika       the letters, presiding force of speech, most primordial form of the divine            

                   forever kind. The seat of all mantras.

pitha           seat, location the sound at the seat of all mantras

rupinim       One who is identical to Ganesh

 

I pray to the divine mother, who is identical to Ganesh, is the ruler of the planets, the consultations and the ways of karma;

I pray to the knowledge, Shakti of that most merciful aspect of the divine that guides me in perfection in yoga and on the path of destiny;

I pray to her who is identical to Mantra;
I pay homage to her (in her most primordial form, who is the locus (place/point) and presiding force of speech and all sound, she who is forever kind. 

 ... from the Nitya Sodashikarnava

Translation and interpretation by Rod Stryker