Sublime

Cliff arrived at Devipuram toting a small, pyramidal Sri Meru he had ordered by mail from Devipuram five years earlier.16 One day he brought the Meru to Guruji for his blessing. Handing it back afterward, Guruji told him, “This is for your healing.”

Devipuram—“The Goddess’s Abode”—the temple complex that Guruji had spent more than three decades building up from almost nothing in the rural wilds of eastern India.

Sri Meru is a three-dimensional projection of a Sri Chakra, used in Sri Vidya worship, that figures heavily in Guruji’s life and work. See also “Introduction: The World of Sri Vidya” in The Goddess and the Guru, Volume II.

Dharmabodhi Sarasvatī.

Practices in Śrīvidyā differ according to sampradāya, and along with Lalitā Devī, the tradition includes the worship of other deities, particularly the elephant-headed Gaṇapatī, Bālā Tripurasundarī (the form of Devī as a young girl), Mātaṅgī, and Vārāhī.