For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish 4 Esoteric Tāntrik Goddesses
Aug 16, 2025
A deep dive into tantric goddess systems and how one consciousness appears as multiple divine forms. Historical context and key texts illuminate Kali and tantric practice. The talk maps sets of goddesses—four, three, twelve—and links them to mental faculties and ritual visualizations. Practical meditation methods show how everyday experience becomes spiritual practice.
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Tantra Texts Are The Foundation Of Temple Culture
- Tantra texts (tantras/agamas) underlie Indian temple architecture, ritual, and mantra transmission, and can be read dualistically or non-dually.
- Nishanth Selvalingam highlights the Malini Vijayotara Tantra and Abhinavagupta as central sources shaping temple prakrama, ritual form, and mantra distributions.
Samvit Devī Is The One Nondual Consciousness
- Samvit Devī is non-dual consciousness personified: the One Goddess in whom Para, Parāparā and Apara appear.
- Selvalingam explains Abhinavagupta and Trika texts treat that One (Matṛ Sadbhāva) as both knower and mother — the subject in which all deities manifest.
Sri Ramakrishna Asked Kali To Reveal Christian Worship
- Nishanth recounts Sri Ramakrishna looking across to other religions and asking Kali to show how Christians worship the same God.
- He uses this story to illustrate the non-sectarian insight that different religions name one reality differently.