Spanda Karikas - for Jonesboy
Jonesboy.
As you are interested in the Kashmir Shaivism texts. Here is Spanda Karikas by Kshemaraja. Prime disciple of Abhinivagupta. http://cincinnatitemple.com/articles...-Pulsation.pdf It's a text meant for the practical application of the teachings in the Shiva sutras scripture. |
Awesome... Spandan means pulsating, spanda one can feel pulsation when it throbbing. spanda means vibration.
Many time while I am doing mediation, feel spandan through moving of dhyana, (moving of focus, attention and entire concentration as per technique). I downloaded this ebook and will read in my times. |
Nice Divine Consciousness....
Glad you may enjoy it too. I said in above post that Ksemaraja was the source of the text. That is wrong. He wrote an excellent and widely acknowledge commentary on spanda karikas which is part of the book posted here. Ksemarajas commentary is called Spanda-nirnaya . The originer of the text is Kallata Quote:
One of my teacher calls the text itself a kind of Guru. Which purpose is to reveal the Light and take away the darkness of the student. |
Here is an online commentary on the sutras as well...posting the first sutras below;
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Very cool stuff and thank you.
Here let me add some resources. I took some of this from another post where they were looking for practical KS techniques. This website has a nice introduction into Kashmir Shaivism. http://www.universalshaivafellowship.../#.WZR_Cq2ZM0o Quote:
Here is a lecture given by Mark Dyczkowski, it's mostly about chanting Om, but it touches on many subjects, such as Vijnanabhairava tantra and Kashmir Shaivism generally, although the content given here (except for verses from Vijnanabhairava and Spandakarikas from his book) is mostly Upanishadic, still a great deal of knowledge, most of which is hard to obtain even for gods in many kalpas... I mean, hard to find anywhere else on the web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftGeQkvlwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OmBhlWrrGc Of course when it comes to practical side of Shaivism then Vijnanabhairava is a no-brainer. Just be careful to pick Swami Lakshmanjoo or Jaideva Singh edition (or both) and not Osho or Lorin Roche edition as they are not real Vijnanabhairava. Some links that you might also find helpful: http://tantrikstudies.squarespace.com/blogpage/ a homepage of Christopher Wallis, he seems a bit "New Agey" to me, but in his book and blog posts he also presents many practical sides of Shaivism and he certainly knows the tradition well https://www.sanskrit-trikashaivism.c...glish-home/100 some Argentinian guy who claims to have had a spontaneous initiation, I can't assess validity of many things on this site though http://www.anuttaratrikakula.org homepage of aforementioned Mark Dyczkowski, whom I don't need to introduce I think, he has lots of courses and some free info too, really priceless IMO, his reading list is also great, working my way through titles that I've missed (Aspects of Kashmir Shaivism is a gem really) http://www.shivashakti.com everyone knows this site I think but gonna post it regardless, Mike's translations and articles are mostly centered around Shaktism (particularly Kalikula and Śri Vidya), nevertheless he has a great deal of information there, some very hard to obtain and his abstacts and translations are really neat, he has a section on Shaivism too https://oxford.academia.edu/AlexisSanderson another scholar of great importance, he used to have his website with various texts, translations and papers but here is most of what was there anyway, if not more, you can find real gems on academia.edu, for example "The Yoga of the Malinivijayottaratantra" by Somadeva Vasudeva https://kyoto-u.academia.edu/SomadevaVasudeva https://univ-lille3.academia.edu/JuditTorzsok https://saivatantra.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGK...tkt5Ph7YvKAFWQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIR...-Ubi0IxIEUx51A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKY...JRWaM_dfi_BnxA You can also of course just study Tantraloka in it's entirety and get to know Tantra from Abhinavagupta Himself. Anyway - I'm most curious about the self-initiation into Trika described by Ahinavagupta in his 4th chapter of Tantraloka. http://www.sutrajournal.com/a-thousa...-jeffrey-lidke Also check out more stuff from Sutra Journal, they aren't exclusively about Shaivism (not even exclusively about Tantra) but there are some gems there, like this one article here which concisely presents the life and subsequent ascension of Abhinavagupta who was an incarnation of Bhairava. Another really valuable article from Wallis: http://www.tantrikstudies.org/blog/2...on-the-chakras Speaking of which - if anyone would be interested in Kundalini and chakras in Kashmir Shaivism tradition then the best book on the matter is "Kundalini: Energy Of The Depths" by Lilian Silburn. Also, "Born of the Yogini's Heart" by Paul Muller-Ortega is worth reading, it's somewhere on the web. It's a short article but very illuminating regarding the "cavern of the heart" metaphor in Shaivism. But well, it's not really practical per se, nevertheless it does contribute to understanding of the system. http://www.ishwarashramtrust.com/mal.php Here are all issues of Malini journal, published with blessings of Swamiji. |
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I have found that most of the KS texts have very strong transmissions in them. :smile: |
Namaste.
All of this is awesome! Thank you to Bindu and Jonesboy. <3 I have previously just only briefly skimmed the Spanda Karikas, although I have studied Vijnana Bhairav Tantra in depth and also read Tantraloka by Abhinavagupta. I was 'The Necromancer' in another forum-life, Jonesboy and hence why I didn't reply to your PM yet...because you already know me...what is in my mind and heart....so I didn't do it just yet. Suffice to say, I haven't been reading much. Last night I found a set of tabla in the back of my brother's music store...sitting under a pile of stuff... I got it out, started to tune it...matched my brother playing harmonics on his electric guitar with tabla harmonics...showed him how to do eight beats within a single beat, how to tap and stretch the skin...he was like "no way! I didn't know you could play the tabla!" I followed that with "I bet you I can do a lot of things you had no idea I could do" and started singing Rudrashtakam in Sanskrit along with playing tabla and his jaw just dropped. Then, one of my brother's music students started following my tabla lead on the zither and my brother switched from electric guitar to the theremin. We did a three-piece shiva kirtan right then and there for Tabla, Zither and Theremin with me singing Shiva prayers in Sanskrit and them joining in chanting "om" and "om namah shivay" on the chorus and my brother is like "we should so be recording this!" but we didn't record it. He was like "next time we will record it" but then I was like "yeah, but it will lose it's authentic 'spur of the moment" sound then. lol Aum Namah Shivaya |
Thanks a lot Jonesboy for the many great links here !
Many sources which I have not seen before. Been traveling so haven't had time until now to look closer into it. I feel a great inspiration to keep up the studies of this great tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. I feel also that this knowledge and canon will keep increasing and growing in the spiritual society. It is a body of knowledge whose time has come for a renaissance I think. The tantric wholeness vision of seeing the world as an expression of the highest reality, not to be rejected is needed now. Thanks again...will probably comment more about it here... |
Namaste.
I've been off studying the Spanda Karikas by Jaidev Singh for the past week. Good stuff in there. I've also been studying the collective works of Pandit Gopi Krishna on the nature of Kundalini. Om Namah Shivaya |
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