Mehul Vora talks about the Journey of Writing the book ” Secret Goddesses of Tantra “

There are very few books on Tantra, when I did My initial research I found only 10 books on the
topic 2-3 of them were in English and the rest were in Hindi, I then did my review of Literature to
understand the topic better, I found Tantric visions of Divine Feminine, by David Kinsley as a very
close kind of work that I wished to do. I took that as a reference point and then pondered as to how
can I Create something different. I then read many books that were already written on the subject. I
then found out that the symbolism was missing. The books did talk of the stories, yantras, sadhana,
and temples but not about the appearance and symbolism in greater detail, I then taught of just
collecting information before processing it.

While I was reading I found that different texts talk of the
appearance of each goddess differently, for example, Garuda Puran describes the goddess Kali in a
certain way and Mahanirvana Tantra describes Kali in a certain way and Devi Mahatmya describes
her totally differently. I then thought of compiling everything parallelly to give a different perspective
of appearance from each text. I then went on to understand the philosophical aspect of the
goddesses. Going a little deeper while contemplating the philosophical aspect of the goddesses I
found that these can be co-related in various other texts I then went on to read Bhagavad Gita, Adi
Shankaracharya Aatma bodha, Viveka Chudamani, and other texts. To give several texts referring to
each goddess I had to read close to 30 texts and translate a total of 15 texts. I then kept structuring
the book till I found my final manuscript. The total writing of the book took 4 years.