Verses 41-70 Saundaryalahari

Verses 42 -- 100 describe Mother Divine / Shakti / Tripura Sundari from head to foot, or up and down the Sushumna. Tripura Sundari is the beautiful one of the three cities – the three states of consciousness, the “A”, “U”, “M” of Aum (or Om). She is the energy that emerges from the silence beyond Aum, symbolized as the bindu at the center of Shri Yantra. The yantra describes the levels of the world of name and form. The goal of the practice is to attain the center of consciousness beyond mind, to go through the bindu, to realize that the practice itself is an obstacle.