Sublime

Without saying ‘I’ by mouth, investigating by an inward sinking [submerging, immersing, diving, plunging, or piercing] mind where one rises as ‘I’ is alone the path of jñāna [the means to experience jñāna, real knowledge or pure awareness, which is one’s true nature].

An adept in Śrī-Vidyā can be a Śākta at heart, a Śaivite in outlook and a Vaiṣṇavite in practice.

Hence a jnani helps people following any particular path, whatever it may be.

he never advocated long periods of sitting meditation and he always showed his disapproval when any of his devotees expressed a desire to give up their mundane activities in favour of a meditative life.

While Śrīvidyā is the name of a particular path, it also refers to the central mantra of the tradition as well as its ultimate goal—svatantra or absolute freedom through the realization of auspicious wisdom.

“A command over our passions, and over the external senses of the body, and good acts, are declared by the Ved to be indispensable in the mind’s approximation to God.”

This is repeatedly taught in the Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad (e.g., in 4.2.4): “About this self, one can only say, ‘Not this, not this.’ It is ungraspable, for it cannot be grasped.” This maxim, based on the Sanskrit neti neti, is a “rule of substitution,” negating any words that might follow. Brahman is therefore “not this” and “not that,” eliminati

If we really want to know Devī, we have to realize our unlimited nature and become her. This is the purpose of sādhanā, and the result of moving from duality to non-duality, from taking ourselves to be the limited “me story” to knowing ourselves to be non-separate from Reality. It is realizing that we are far more than the character in the movie.