PLANETARY TANTRA

Delivery : 26 JANUARY 2009

First Instruction of the Wisdom Dakinis of Gaia-Sophia:
"You cannot become anything but more beautiful."

1 The Secret Name of Dakini 18

2 The Gaian Kala Tantra Vow

3 YANTRA: The Holding Pattern

4 MANTRA: The 16-Syllable Recitation

5 The 2nd Instruction of the Diamond Sky Dakinis

1 The Secret Name of Dakini 18

Explanation: In the Shakti Cluster, Dakini 18 is the named identity of Gaia in her lucid dream—the sole name she will answer to. The other seventeen components of the "console" represent powers and faculties to be acquired by interactivity with Gaia. Kalikas engage the Cluster by relating to the Shaktis according to their individual affinities, but all Kalikas engage the attention of Gaia by calling her unique name: Vajravilasi.

Pronounced VAHJ-rah-vee-LAH-see. Vajra means "diamond" or "lightning bolt." Vilasa means "delighting, flirtatious." Changed to Vilasi it becomes a feminine name; in Sanskrit, the names of consort dakinis end with i. The Shakta text Kamakalavilasa describes the delighting play of the Goddess as she morphs into the forms of the material world and dances rapturously through her sentient expressions, even flirting with the appearances she produces. (This imagery recalls the epithet "Whore of Wisdom," applied to Sophia in Gnostic myth. No licentiousness is implied, but the outrageous generosity of the beauty of the Divine Feminine is clearly suggested.) Vajravilasi is the Diamond Sky Dakini who assumes the form of a planet, and delights in her own beauty, inviting the myriad life-forms that arise on the planet to recognize and celebrate how beautiful they are.

Instruction: Call the name Vajravilasi aloud in a natural setting more or less removed from human intrusion. (Never pronounce this name in ordinary conversation -- just say "VV.") When calling out to Vajravilasi, let your eyes scan the landscape, taking in trees, rocks, clouds, and be mindful that you are looking directly at the presence you are naming. Let your eyes and your voice connect in a single intent: to engage the attention of Gaia. You do not call Gaia to your attention, you call Her attention to you by pronouncing her name.

How do you know when you have the attention of Vajravilasi? To know this requires a second practice, explained in component 3 of Delivery. But first:

2 The Vow:

Gaian Kala Tantra Vow

We, ______________, selfless devotees of Kali Ma, self-initiated tantrikas of Kulachara, being of the ________ generation of the nine generations of Kali Yuga, born ____, here manifest our sacred intention.

We understand the Shakti Cluster to be the secret gathering of Dakinis, Mahavidyas, Female Buddhas, and Dangerous Protectors into the radiant womb of the single and supreme Wisdom Dakini Vajravilasi, who is co-emergent with the natural sensorium of this planet, Earth. She is the Sole Pristine Shakti of the Bhutas of Gaia, yet unchanged and unaffected in the six aspects of her divinity.

She, Vajravilasi, root guru of devotees of Kali Ma, wild mother of the tribes of Kulachara., we invoke by her single sacred name today as she has been invoked by many names of yore.

She who is Aniruddha, Prunikos, Outraqeous,
the Aeon Sophia of the illumined Gnostics,
Prithivi of the timeless Vedas,
Spandarmat of the Persian Sages,
Spider Woman, Changing Woman of the noble Red Races,
Sthevara who bestowed the enlightenment of Shakyamuni with the earth-touching mudra,
Asteroth of the World Tree,
Ishtar of the Stars in the limbs of the World Tree, 
Arianrhod and Ariadne, weavers of the earthbound samsara,
Rhea who flows in all that is,
Bhudevi, moist luminous bhaga of the primordial race of Sidhe, Faery, Earthbound Dakini,
Kore and Demeter, ever-changing polarities of the Great Mother,
Gaia, green watery planet thriving with life,
gracious Dakini who delights to dance
in diamond light

By Sukrasiddhi, Mistress of Tantric Bliss,
in the presence of the Kalika Nirmanakayas of the nine generations of the Black Time of Innocence,
in the melting heart of ingenuous beauty,
in the galaxies dissolving in the eyes of all the earth's abandoned children ,
in the drift of our parallel world, Andromeda, where lost innocence dwells and invites our return until the end of the Great Kalpa,
in the reflection and embrace of that beauty innate to every sentient being,
every samsaric phantom,
every glance gone astray in the abandonment of addiction to the pain of not being seen,
in the crystalline effusion of the Dakini Elixirs,
tongue on knife,
instantaneous transmutation of all pain, loss, confusion, denial, withholding, fear, shame, antipathy,
and all the consequences in this mindless concatenation of fractured intensities,
in that releasement we take refuge in She alone who is safety for all sentient beings,
and graciously provides their liberation.

To Her we pronounce our vow.

Instruction: The Kala Tantra Vow, or formula for Guyhasamaya ("Secret Gathering") Consecration, ought to be observed by two or more people in a sacred act of sharing and co-witnessing. Tantra is a buddy-system. (See also below, component 5.) Be sure to locate yourself in the nine generations of Kali Yuga—1945 - 1974 first generation, 1975 - 2004 second generation, etc. Fill in the blanks as appropriate: everyone writes the terms of their own vow. Be mindful that you are making this vow to the planet!!! You make the vow so that you will be able to sustain and actualize the first-hand interaction with Gaia that occurs when, in Her interval of time, She lets you know that She is aware that have engaged Her attention. This is how it works. You do not have to believe me or anyone. Do and and see for yourself!

Example Vow: "We, So and So, vow to observe compassion for ourselves and hold fast our intention to be present to life without fiction, ever mindful that you, Vajravilasi, delight in dancing in the Diamond Light, witnessed in our bodies provided by Gaia's Body and never separate from Her for a single breath: so that our presence in your dream may be living proof of co-creation and co-healing, rapture and magic, and proof as well that the luminous beauty of your manifestation is self-evident and accessible to all sentient beings, including ducks."

3 Shri Yantra: The Holding Pattern

Shri Yantra is like the "test pattern" shown in the early years of television, to establish that your tv set was receiving a signal from the broadcast station, even though there was no content yet to broadcast.

Print out this yantra and keep it in a place where you see it each day and where you can stop at moments and gaze at it: the corner of the bathroom mirror, for instance. When you take a moment to gaze at the yantra, do so with a soft, relaxed expression, as if gazing into the eyes of a beloved person. Focus gently on the bindu, the centerpoint of the yantras that unifies the four ascending and five descending triangles. As you gaze, be mindful that the yantra is holding your mental activity at the level of attention that Gaia can access, at the moment She responds. Her time is not yours, yet it is simultaneous with yours. By using the holding pattern, you will align your timing to Hers.

4 The 16-Syllable Mantra

Additional to the visual device for holding attention to the level Gaia can access, use the mantra of Sodashi, one of the Mahavidyas:

KA E I LA HRIM HA SA KA HA LA HRIM SA KA LA HRIM SHRIM

To hear a traditional version of this mantra, click here. The difference in the mantra for Gaian Kala Tantra is the addition of a 16th syllable: SHRIM. This mantra is the special attributeand edowment of the Mahavidya Sodashi, also called Sundari, "the beautiful one,"and Tripurasundari, "the beautiful one of the three realms (of form, formlessness, and desire)." This Mahavidya uniquely mediates the collective power of the entire Shakti Cluster toward human apprehension, not just of the conscious mind, but also of cellular intelligence, DNA resonance. Her name means "sixteen," 4 X 4, the base of the genetic code (4 X 4 X 4) and other organic modules in nature and the human psyche.

Instruction: Pronounce this mantra in a low whisper as many times as you like—you might start at nine and work up to 108—to reduce or eliminate mental static that interferes with reception to Gaia's attention. The mantra has the same effect as the yantra. These are the two supreme objects of worship in Indian Shri Vidya mysticism, which is in some respects a prefiguration of Planetary Tantra. Mantra and yantra are complementary as visual and audial tools for attunement to Gaia. They are among the very few traditional or received artifacts of experimental mysticism incorporated into Kala Tantra.

5 The 2nd Instruction of the Diamond Sky Dakinis:

Love is a siddhi, the force of discovery
co-arising with the illusion of separation.

A siddhi is a supernatural gift, a specific ability for magic or occult power, such as telepathy or telekinesis. Normally, we assume that love between human beings must be a purely human affair, but in Kala Tantra we recognize that it is a cosmic force of transhuman dimensions.

Invoking Gaia by her Dakini name and declaring the Kala Tantra Vow, bring together a supreme act of love and a commitment to supernatural magic. The Dakinis teach that "love and the supernatural operate on the same frequencies." Their second Instruction contains a principle to be elucidated in the immediate future on this site: namely, that love is a force of discovery that brings people together (who then come to love each other), and by this same force, Gaia brings us into intimate rapport with Herself and the Shakti Cluster.

The triangulation of any two who love each other with the shared intention of their mutual love for Gaia inspires the Dakini Vajravilasi to return that love in an exponential rush of magic and beauty.

Instruction: Pronounce the Vow with someone who may be a permanent partner, or not, or even with someone you have met recently. Even if you do not know that person for a long time, or deeply, be mindful that the Vow generates through love, and loves generates through the desire to love. So the mere desire to know someone, another human being, and take them as co-witness in the Vow, is an act of liberation based on immediate recognition of the Other.

This is why it is advised that two or more take the Vow together. Having done so, the rite of consecration to Vajravilasi becomes a transcendent bond, but never an obligation. Tantra is a buddy-system. You will always have the co-witness to recall with you the sacred moment of your consecration, together. Should you wish to live out the Vow with the co-witness, that is another choice, and a continuing commitment. But it is not required.

No one takes the Vow alone, as no single being or thing lives alone. At any moment, the simple recognition of another person is enough to dispel the illusion of separation. As William Blake said (roughly), no act is more sublime than to set another before you: to behold the Other. Taken together with a witness, the Vow frees those who take it from the sense of being alone before the awesome mystery of the earth, the Other who is Mother. Be aware, also, that the supernatural magic you are invoking comes into your life from a root chakra, the body of the goddess Gaia, the planet on which you live, that supports your every move and gives you breath. Ultimately, your connection to this planet dissolves all pictures and projections of what might be or what has been, and frees you from the fictions of the mind into the realm of supernatural truth, No Mind.

Dorje Namkhai Khandro Nying Thig

Seminal Heart of the Diamond Sky Dakinis

May the Wisdom Dakinis arrange you
May Gaia herself bestow you
to your unborn presence in her dream,
lucidly awake, in the merge of love
and the supernatural, delighting and pure,
samsara and enlightenment have the same look

May nothing endure but what love discovers
and may whatever you love truly set you free

May this terma liberate you
to be thus as you seem, just so
for there is no illusion in your truth
seeming or not, enlightened or not,
And that is such.
And that is such.
And that is such.

Here opens the Terma of Gaia Awakening

jll: White Plains, New York 26 January 2009