Swami Lakshmanjoo explains how one should act in this world so that impressions do not remain in one’s mind – Kashmir Shaivism
This is an excerpt from Chapter 3, Bhagavad Gita, In the Light of Kashmir Shaivism, by Swami Lakshmanjoo. Also, check out our free weekly sangha recordings of studying Abhinavagupta’s Bhagavad Gita.
Now, who is the best one? The best yogi is that person . . .
DVD 3.1 (18:09)
यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेऽर्जुन ।
कर्मेन्द्रियैः कर्मयोगमसक्तः स
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In this excerpt from the Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening (Third Awakening), verse 8, Swamiji explains that "there are only two aspects found in this universe: one energy, and the next, energy holder."
It is also said in Sarvamaṅgalā śāstra.
śaktiśca śaktimāṁścaiva padārthadvayamucyate /
śaktayo'sya jagatkṛtsnaṁ śaktimāṁstu maheśvaraḥ //
(Sarvamaṅgalā Śāstra)
There are two aspects only found in this universe: one energy, and the next, energy ho...
In this excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, In the Light of Kashmir Shaivism Swami Lakshmanjoo makes clear that “Everybody can achieve Him with bhakti, devotion, love.” And he goes on to explain what love really is…
"Love is the answer and the key!" ~Swami Lakshmanjoo
DVD 8 (1:03:00)
परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्यो व्यक्ताव्यक्तः सनातनः ।
यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥२०॥
अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम् ।
यं प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ॥२१॥
पुरुषः स परः पार्थ
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In this excerpt from the Shiva Sutras – The Supreme Awakening, third awakening, Verse 4) Swami Lakshmanjoo explains how “You must do this kind of practice for subsiding the power of ignorance, the power of illusion.”
ataśca etatpraśamāya
So etat praśamāya, for subsiding this limitation of life, limitation of being . . .
śarīre saṁhāraḥ kalānām // 4 //
You must make all the circles (kalās) in your body enter one into the other from gross to subtle.
. . . you have to do t...
In this extract from the Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening, by Swami Lakshmanjoo, Swamiji explains how mantra (sound) is connected with kundalini. You can find some real gems here, we have highlighted a few in bold in the transcript below the video…
For such a great yogi the mantra, that supreme-I, universal-I (mantra is here universal-I, not individual-I), the splendor of that universal-I is explained in this next sūtra, third.
विद्याशरीरसत्ता मनत्ररहस्यम् ॥३॥
vidyā-śarīra-sattā ma...
In this excerpt, Swamiji explains sāttvic (divine) sukha (joy) and explains how this appears as poisonous in the beginning and how to turn that into joy (in meditation).
This is an excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita audio recordings from the unpublished archives of the Lakshmanjoo Academy, Chapter 18, verse 37.
Sāttvic sukha – Divine way of Spiritual joy.
yattadātve viṣamiva pariṇāme’mṛitopamam /
tatsukhaṁ sāttvikaṁ vidyādātmabuddhiprasādajam // 37
Yattadātve, at the time of abhyāsa, that s...
In the latest Bhagavad Gita Sangha (#85 Chapter 14 verse 19-25) we learned from Swamiji about the gunas in Kashmir Shaivism versa traditional Vedic literature. A very important question came up: “How does sattvaguna binds the individual?” As we had just learned that sattvaguna is considered to be pure.
In this unpublished excerpt from an earlier audio recording of the Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji explains this in great detail. And ends with an important appeal!
Bhagavad Gītā audio (1978)
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In this excerpt from The Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism, Abhinavagupta’s Tantraloka, Volume One, Swami Lakshmanjoo reveals the nature of liberation (mokṣa).
B) The nature of Liberation – Mokṣa (31–35)
Now the thirty-first [śloka]:
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स्वतन्त्रात्मातिरिक्तस्तु तुच्छोऽतुच्छोऽपि कश्चन।
न मोक्षो नाम तन्नास्य पृथङ्नामापि गृह्यते॥३१॥
svatantrātmātiriktastu tuccho’tuccho’pi kaścana /
na mokṣo nāma tannāsya pṛthaṅnāmāpi gṛhyate //31//
Now, he explain...
This excerpt is a very important lecture on the qualification of Parabhairava, as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo in the Essence of the Supreme Reality: Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara verses 10-13.
In this excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Lakshmanjoo quotes Lord Shiva/Krishna saying: “I am the creator of everybody, I am the producer of everybody. This way, whoever knows Me, he is really a realized soul and he has got full faith in Me.”
Bhagavad Gita DVD 10 (05:55)
एतां विभूतिं योगं च मम यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ।
सोऽविकम्पेन योगेन युज्यते नात्र संशयः ॥७॥
etāṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca mama yo vetti tattvataḥ /
so’vikampena yogena yujyate nātra saṁśayaḥ //7//
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“Love and devotion for God arise from His Grace”.
~Swami Lakshmanjoo
Below is an extract from the Tantraloka 13th Ahnika revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo…
This is an unpublished text from the Archive of the Lakshmanjoo Academy)
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purāṇe’pi ca tasyaiva
prasādādbhaktiriṣyate /
yayā yānti parāṁ siddhiṁ
tadbhāvagatamānasāḥ // 285 //
In Purāṇa also, in historical tantras also–tantras which propound only histories of the past s...
This Introduction was written by John Hughes for the Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo.
Lord Shiva creates the objective world through the expansion of his Shakti, which is absolutely one with him; and the universe is manifest in his own nature, like a reflection in a mirror, by his own absolutely independent will.
In describing the nature of reality, the Kashmir Shaiva explains that there is only one Being called Sh...
