Samharakrama

(“destruction method”) Ritual in the
Shrividya school of the secretive religious practice known as tantra. This ritual uses the shrichakra, a symbolic diagram used in worship. The adept’s ritual
journey starts at the outer edges of the
shrichakra, which represents the apparently “real” everyday world, and gradually moves toward the center, where a
single point (bindu) represents absolute
unity. This process is called “destruction” because the ritual process systematically deconstructs the notion of the
dualistic world and destroys the notion
of a Self that is separate from the
Absolute Reality. For further information see Douglas Renfrew Brooks, The
Secret of the Three Cities, 1990.