Temple 64 Yoginis Dance Around Shiva Hirpur India

Shakti or Devi worship is very ancient in Hinduism.

Goddess Uma is worshiped in Her various Forms.

This, with some esoteric Principles, forms the basis for the Tantra Shastra.

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There are various ways one can worship these Gods and Goddesses.

Goddess Lalitha is worshiped in Four different ways

The worship of Goddess Lalitha is called Sri Vidya.

The Sri Vidya is to be practiced by any of the following Four ways,traditions

1.Samayacharam. Worshiping in The Mind

Worship is done mentally, internally and no object is used in this tradition

2.Dakshinacharam,Worshiping through an Object, Sri Chakra or an Idol.

3.Vamacharam  is worshiping through the terrible aspects of The Divine, Laya Pradhana

Kaulacharam is worshiping through the Human Body/parts.

This includes Rituals some which are erotic in nature.

It is Tantra Shastra”.(www.ramanan50.wordpress.com)

There are Temples devoted to this form of worship and the activity of Tantra Shastra was at its peak in the  Central and Eastern part of India.

Worship of  Yoginis started in Odisha in 800 AD and flourished till 1300 AD.

“64 Yoginis come into focus when references are made to the dark side of Tantricism. The cult of tantrics profusely flourished in the 8th century where it reached its peak. Today we have just 4 of these temples scattered across our indian landscape. Two of these are located in Orissa at Hirapur and Ranipur Jharial, one is in Madhya Pradesh in Bheraghat temple and one supposedly in Tamil Nadu.”
64 Yoginis appear like they are in a wild trance with Lord Shiva. Here the rhythms are quite different, the music is stranger and the flavour is wild. Bhavabhuti once expressed in the Malathi Madhava, the very same beauty of these Kanyas in the rituals of tantricism associated with the Mother Goddess, though the tantric played a villainous role of attempting human sacrifice. This is not a celebration of the infamous ritual practice but a poetic peep into this world of Gods and Goddesses, a part of our better known Shiva and Kali.

How to reach Hirpur,Odisha

Distance from Bhubaneswar 15km

Railway Station;Bhubaneswar.

Airport:Bhubaneswar.

Source:

http://ramanisblog.in/2014/02/14/lalitha-sahasranama-introduction/

http://indiatemple.blogspot.in/2007/11/64-yoginis-dance-with-bhairava.html

http://eodisha.org/64-yogini-templehirapur-odisha/

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