Maa Tara: She is the compassionate one, the bestower of transcendental knowledge.
tArA-vidya is aksara-vidya and also known as udgitha-vidya!
When The unmanifest sound of OmkAra bursts forth into the manifest world, that is tAra.
She is also Tarini who is symbolized by OmkAra...OM..the primordial sound.
I will not delve into the bEja mantra aspect as it is not to be discussed and is not negotiable as per shAkta traditions..however, I would like to write someday about para, madhyama and pasyanti and invisible infinite spectral range of frequencies. This is pure Science.
There are three kinds of particles known in physics. These are particles, light waves and antiparticles. Particles move forward in time; antiparticles move backward in time. Light waves don't move in time - they freeze the present.
When a particle meets another corresponding antiparticle, they annihilate each other explosively, and that becomes light. So, light is a result of pair annihilation; knowledge is a result of the union of past and future in the present. The nature of present is bliss.
Our ancients said - eliminate desires, which are anticipations based on duality; you will eliminate misery. In the present lies realisation; if you move away from it either by remembering or by planning,you have lost irretrievably the contact with the purity of the present moment, the utter bliss of the present moment, the nirvAna of the present moment.
Come to think of it, there is no past, there is no future.
There is only present, a moving present, an infinitesimal moment of time which contains all of infinite time in it. There is no time away from the present!
Tara is the pashyantî sound, which overlaps madhyamâ in frequency.
The power of manifest sound is bridge to God within the human system. The power of sound is called Om. The word syllable Om is only imitating the sound within. It is only a symbol.
What the symbol points to is an unbroken sound which is heard inside, which resembles Om.
The external symbol has a beginning and an end. Not so for the inner sound. It is there always.
That is tArâ. This is what the tArâ vidya is in gist and
One who has not heard the Om within, has no use for any mantrâ. Even the Vedâs say - what will any one do with the song (of the Vedâ) if one has not heard the Om within?
Interesting right! I sincerely hope you all readers ponder on these words.
namaste astu bhagawati. subhambhUyAt
An article by Tej
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