The Shri Vidhya Calendar Year

Spirituality is a wonderful journey. It is a journey where the journey is as important as the destination. It is not blind adherence to what is written in some age-old book, or what was said by some divine human ages ago.

In the spiritual world we are all children - young, innocent and always curiously questioning. It is this reasoning that gives blissful joy in the journey of spirituality.

So then, who do we reason with ? We reason with ourselves. Or more precisely, we reason with the Goddess manifest within us as intuition, our inner voice - the same Goddess that is outside us as Mother Nature.

The basic premise required for such reasoning is that, we need to understand that Mother Nature, both inside and outside us, is perfect. We may not know everything. But our inner voice surely does. What it says is absolutely correct. All the time.

This is the truth of the ultimate, most secretly preserved Spiritual School - The Shri Vidhya Tantra. The whole philosophy condenses to one phrase - "Poornam Idam" - This is perfect.

This album is a tribute to the philosophical truth - "Poornam Idam" – Mother Nature is perfect. Here is what I intend to convey through this video.

We, the viewers, transform ourselves to innocent little kids. Then, we tour the world. The Hindu Calendar says there are 360 Thithis (Days) in a Year. So, in every Thithi, we visit one place in the world. It is bound to be an awesome place with hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, beaches, castles, caves, glaciers and what not!

In each day, we take time to focus on the site of that day. We read about it, we imagine ourselves playing in it, we meditate on it, and if we are excited, we even sing and dance about it.

In this way, we solemnly remind ourselves that each day, whatever place we 'visit' is a commensurate union of man and nature, and is simply perfect. Thus, we acknowledge, appreciate and worship the Mother Nature Goddess. We enjoy ourselves in this place (Bhukthi), while at the same time, spiritually transcending above the place and uniting with Mother Nature as a whole (Mukthi).

351 such sites are included. After those, the last 9 days (Day352-Day360) form the icing on the cake. We visit the Spiritual world of our Mother. Her world, called Sri Nagara, has nine enclosures. We start from the outermost.

As we finish the eight outer enclosures, on the last day of the spiritual journey, we reach the ninth enclosure. This is the Chintamani Palace - The palace of our Mother - the central dot (Bindu) on the Shri Chakra.

We enter her palace. Seeing us, She asks: 'How was the journey?' We say, it was good but tiring. Being the kind Mother that She is, She beckons us over to rest in her lap.

Much to the envy of Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma and crores of other Gods and Goddesses, we reach the innermost section of the palace. We sit on her lap, and bask in her infinite love.

With this, We have reached the summit of our journey. We have attained oneness with the Mother, which Shri Vidhya says, is the ultimate goal.

P.S: A video compilation of this album is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXnHvjWGUk  and the audio track is a compilation of three songs in praise of the Divine Mother.