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T R I P U R A S U N D A R I 
PART 3TRIPURA SUNDARI IS REVEALED AS A 16 YEARS OLD GIRL One of the most famous representations of the Great Cosmic Power Tripura Sundari is a 16 years old girl. This anthropomorphic vision of the goddess is known as Shodasi (meaning "sixteen") or Bala (meaning "young girl"). The age of sixteen was not chosen by accident in this form of Tripura Sundari, because this is the age when the woman experiments the most pleasant and fascinating aspects of her personality at this age. In this stage of her life, her most inner impulse is to experiment new sensations, and to fascinate the people around with her charm. This is why it has been said that her innocence and purity disarms even the darkest souls, acting as a powerful magnet for all who resonate with beauty, truth and goodness. Thus, just as the young girl of sixteen, Shodasi guides the aspirant with great discernment on the spiritual path, representing for the aspirant the innocence and the ardor towards God. SHE SPREADS THE NECTAR OF THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE When we think about the transcendent divine aspects, which imply the essential forms of God's consciousness and energy, Tripura Sundari is associated to the indissoluble reality, which is Cit-Shakti. In Her aspect of Pure Knowledge, She is known as Samvit, referring to Her capacity of understanding and perceiving everything (every thing, being, phenomenon) as being infused with God's supreme consciousness. 
From this perspective, the Great Cosmic Power Tripura Sundari appears as a Power of intuitive and perceptive knowledge, and less as a knowledge issued from discursive analysis and reasoning.She represents that form of manifestation of the Supreme Divine Energy (Parameshvari) who appears to us as pure consciousness and as pure bliss. In an overall attempt of resuming these aspects, we may state that Tripura Sundari is combining some aspects of the energy of activity (characteristic to Kali) with some aspects of the energy of knowledge (characteristic to Tara), adding to these the dimension of the bliss or beatitude of the supreme realization. Closely related to the energy of spiritual beatitude, and with the presence of the divine nectar soma, Tripura Sundari represents also the Moon, as visible embodiment of the transcendent beauty and happiness. From a subtle point of view, Sundari represents the ecstatic experience of spreading the divine nectar inside the aspirant, due to the process of resonance with the most elevated aspects of God's Consciousness. As the very source of the subtle soma, the goddess is located in Sahasrara padma, the crown of the head. Through Her grace, the divine nectar conferring immortality is spread through the whole being of the aspirant, until the aspirant realizes the fact that the entire manifestation is infused with the same subtle energy of infinite beatitude. 
TRIPURA SUNDARI PIERCES US WITH THE ARROWS OF ECSTASYRegarding the Goddess' form, to be visualized during meditation, this is said to be brighter than a thousand suns, and She wears a crescent moon on her head. Tripura Sundari is represented with four arms, in which She holds a bowl for cane sugar, five arrows wreathed from flowers, a noose and a hook. She is usually naked in these representations wearing only wonderful jewels, bracelets on her hands and ankles, earrings, rings, necklaces, and so on.
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