Paramārtha-sāra “The Essence of the Teachings on the Highest Truth”
The first 13 verses – Abhinavagupta You are unsurpassed fullness, the beginningless transcendent reality beyond Māyā, [yet] You are the One who is seated in the cave of the heart of all the various living beings; the substrate of all, abiding in all things both…
The Way of Beauty
An introduction to the nature of perception NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS If we wanted to speak the truth about the nature of consciousness, experience or reality, we would have to remain silent. That is why it’s said that the highest teaching is silence. However, very few…
IGNORANCE AND BONDAGE – SAKTIPATA THE AWAKENING OF DIVINE POWER
The three malas (impurities) constitute our experience of bondage. From the non-dual standpoint, they are not truly stains or an actual substance (as the dualists believe), but simply ignorance, or rather limited perception, which Consciousness has to take in order to become a finite individual, and which…
The Law of Resonance YOGA and the Vibration of Divine Consciousness
For the western mind, the language of yoga and other spiritual paths is many times difficult to decipher: the symbols and metaphors are a jungle where mostly uninitiates are lost. The hidden key that opens all these secrets and lost meanings is Resonance. Resonance is very easy…
Kriya Shakti and the Surfacing of Accumulated Impressions
Why mental resolve is an obstacle to kriya. I don’t know why, but my mind was sad today. I was in no mood to talk to anyone or to listen to anyone. All I wanted to do was pull the blanket over my head and…
Why awaken the Kundalini
One who begins to know his body from within… Firstly, the body and the soul in their very depth are not separate; the difference between them is very superficial. When the whole truth of it is known, we no longer see the body and the…
Cutting the Knot
‘The ‘knot’ is the link between the Self and the body, Awareness of the body arises because of this link. The body is matter, the Self is consciousness. The link between the two is inferred through the intellect. It is by the diffused light of…
PARAVRITTI / METANOESIS
You are not phenomenal objects, but consciousness itself, the animating consciousness which provides sentience to the sentient being; further, that you are consciousness only in manifestation, but truly you are that which is prior to consciousness itself, you are Pure Awareness. Is it not simple…
THE 64 YOGINIS, KUNDALINI AND TANTRA
Tantra is a Yogic Tradition Tantra is a profoundly yogic tradition, and the Tantras call themselves sadhana-shastras, or books of spiritual practice. The Sanskrit word yoga means both “discipline” and “union” and can be translated as “unitive discipline.” The typical Vedic yogin was the rishi…
THE SEVEN STATES OF THE SEVEN PERCEIVERS (PRAMĀTṚIN)
The first state is called sakala. The sakala state is that state where perception takes place in the objective world and not in the subjective world. In other words, I would call this state the state of prameya, the state of the ‘object of perception’. It is realized by…
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