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In this excerpt from the Shiva Sutras – The Supreme Awakening, third awakening verse 17, Swami Lakshmanjoo explains the difference between water and snow. Āgame api – in Tantra also it is said: S.S. 3.17 (04:58) jalaṁ himaṁ ca yo veda guruvaktrāgamātpriye / nāstyeva tasya kartavya...
Swami Lakshmanjoo explains what happens when differentiated perception is totally destroyed, His spanda overflows and He creates this world again. This is an excerpt from Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara, The Essence of the Highest Reality, by Swami Lakshmanjoo. Now also available as video on de...
Swami Lakshmanjoo explains to us what aiming means in the context of meditation in this excerpt from the Shiva Sutras, The Supreme Awakening. The Shiva Sutras is a pure monistic text. It was revealed to Vasugupta by Lord Shiva directly, in verses written under a giant rock in Kashmir. This is fro...
This is an excerpt from “The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha" revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo, which addresses the question… What do you do when you have slipped from that one-pointed-ness, and you have slipped down? A...
This is a lecture of Swamiji given in Kashmiri translated into English. You can also listen and read more about the Systems and Schools of Shaivism by visiting this blog excerpt from the book Kashmir Shaivism, The Secret Supreme, Chapter 19, where Swamiji explains the four sub-systems of this phi...
Swami Lakshmanjoo explains the different ways of (sāttvic, rājasic, tāmasic) acting in this universal drama, as revealed in the Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening, by Swami Lakshmanjoo. (The transcript below is different than the book text) [Intro for sūtra 10.] Now in his theatrical dre...
In this excerpt from the Spanda Kārikā, which is part of the book: The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism – Spanda Kārikā & Spanda Sandoha Swami Lakshmanjoo talks about the two states which we experience in this world. Read along with the transcript in this video recording or ...
Today’s lecture is an excerpt from the book the Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening, by Swami Lakshmanjoo (Shiva Sutras 2.10), where Swamiji answers the question: “why, when you are in samādhi and are unable to maintain awareness, do you enter the dreaming state rather than the waking state?” ...
Excerpt from The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha, with a simple but profound message by Swami Lakshmanjoo (Spanda Karika verse 19). “Just be attentive to one-pointedness, that is all!” ~Swami Lakshmanjoo, Kashmir Shai...
Pause-less effort and its real importance is the subject of this excerpt from the most unique book on Kashmir Shaivism, Shiva Sutras, The Supreme Awakening as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo. This is from the second awakening, verse number two. 2. prayatnaḥ sādhakaḥ // (For such a yogī) ...
