Benefits of Śrī Vidyā
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2020-01-24

Just a few of the benefits of practicing the Śrī Vidyā:
 • sharp spiritual intelligence
 • freedom from chronic disease
 • easy and peaceful passing away
 • profound ease, beauty and grace 
 • protection from pernicious enemies
 • abundant wealth and other opulences
 • overarching transcendental knowledge
 • effortless conquest of self-destructive habits
 • release from self-created mental anxiety and distress
 • easy access to even the most abstruse meditative states
 • renewed appreciation of the simplicity and beauty of nature
 • deep understanding of, and insight into the fundamental energies of consciousness and life...

The list could go on for a good many pages. But for our instructional purposes here, the most relevant gift of the Universal Mother is a context of meaning so broad, deep and rich that the entire world’s religious and spiritual knowledge easily finds a place in Her Śrī Vidyā. This minimizes and mitigates the inhibiting effect of illusory sectarian boundaries created by biased, self-interested (usually cis-male) religious pedagogues, and connects the various spiritual paths and arts into a unified whole.

Ontology, the meaning of meaning, the science of sciences, teaches the secret that context is meaning. The definition of a word or symbol is determined by the context or environment in which it is found. For example, the meaning of up in the sentence, “Come on up to my place” is completely different from its meaning in the sentence, “Fill up the glass.” What’s the difference? Only context; but context determines meaning. 

Similarly, having to completely switch contexts to graduate from karma-yoga to bhakti-yoga, or from bhakti to rāja-yoga, inhibits the natural growth of meaning—the development and progression from one stage of spiritual development to the next. And indeed we see this happening in life. In conventional religious and spiritual contexts, graduating from one spiritual faith, path or method to another at a higher level often requires the complete destruction and reconstruction of one’s intellectual, spiritual and even social life—a daunting price for progress. No wonder so many people remain stuck at one point on the Path much longer than necessary.