The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing by Susan Shumsky

Author:Susan Shumsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633411395
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

Doorkeeper Lakini

The power (shakti) of Rudra is Lakini, doorkeeper of manipura, also called Bhadrikali. The three-headed powerful Goddess Lakini, beautiful as the moon, has three eyes in each face, four arms, and large teeth. Her brilliant eyes are beautifully painted with collyrium.

Figure 11d. Lakini.

She is described as black, vermilion, or red. Dressed in yellow or white, she is adorned with various ornaments and a garland of skulls. She sits in deep meditation on a red lotus.

Lakini is often pictured black, the color of tamas guna, the destructive force. The Sanskrit root la means “that which takes.” So she removes all ignorance, freeing her devotees from bondage. She also brings about laya (absorption) of the tattvas (creative principles).

Her three heads represent the three gunas. Tamas guna makes the body inert and dulls the senses. Rajas guna develops one-pointed concentration. Sattva guna maintains divine awareness.

In one of her right hands Lakini holds a thunderbolt (vajra), which symbolizes adamantine discipline. In her other right hand she holds a spear (shakti), which transforms diverse energy into concentrated one-pointedness. Her left hands dispel fear and grant boons.

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