The Sudoku-Tantra.

Sudoku : The Sacred Tantra. 

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For the beginners, a Sudoku is a 9x9 matrix of integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 arranged in a such a way that every integer in each column, row, and the 2 diagonals is not repeated.

Thus, there are in all 81 squares and every integer is there but once only in every column, row and the 2 diagonals.

Solving a given Sudoku is no doubt, a difficult or comparatively an easier intellectual exercise, but one can sure form a Sudoku as well.

So far, I didn't try to find out, how many Sudoku really exist but guess, it might be a limited finite number only.

But I do see a Sudoku is a beautiful example and model that let's us understand how we can take each number as an assumption only.

Tantra-vision looks at the matrix of letters that deals with the spoken letters / phonemes of all sounds that human voice can utter.

The same matrix finds place as :

अक्षर-समाम्नाय in Sanskrit Grammar.

Here every letter (वर्ण) is form and essence of a  देवता and they are such, of 33 kinds (कोटि).

Following this Sudoku, is an instrument of the गणेश-तन्त्र, while the अक्षर-समाम्नाय or the matrix of the letters belongs to :

The शिव-तन्त्र, as well as the देवी-तन्त्र also.

Again about what exactly is the significance and the role of a देवता in Tantra?

An integer is a whole positive number, and as such facilitates the counting of the number of the items under consideration.

Although an integer is an assumed idea and as such an assumption only, it signifies a deeper sense / aspect of the latent and not manifest, that could not be grasped through the senses (physical organs of knowledge).

When we kind of 'cage' such a देवता in a box and in terms of an integer, we need to place each in such a way, that it holds a unique place in its allotted column, row or diagonal.

This is the आधिदैविक /  Divine sphere of numbers and letters.

This indicates, we duly honor and respect each and every देवता .

When a Sudoku is solved, this happens.

A spoken letter or a number is basically a live expression of the corresponding देवता .

A Sudoku is therefore the bridge that connects the individual consciousness to the आधिदैविक /  the Divine Sphere, consciousness or the Divinity.

At the physical, mundane, secular level though we can consider each letter and number as a concept only. Maybe, It has a form and meaning also, but still it is a verbal thought, a word or a set of certain words, that keeps on arising and disappearing in brain. And as such it is but data or the bits of information, but no value ultimate.

Then we come to the realization that the "I" too holds a unique place at the level of the individual and the Divine also.

In man it is the ego, while as the core Reality, 

it is the Ultimate, Supreme, Absolute and the  Unique identity of the Existence.

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