A clear and unique explanation of the much-discussed term “maya” (illusion) in the light of Kashmir Shaivism as Swami Lakshmanjoo reveals to us how we have become limited being.
This is an excerpt from Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara: The Essence of the Highest Reality.
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PS DVD 1 (00:55:10)
मायापरिगरहवशाद
बोधो मलिनः पुमान पशुरभवति ।
काल-कला-नियतिवशाद
रागाविदयावशेन संबदधः ॥॥
maya...
In this important excerpt from The Magical Jewel of Devotion in Kashmir Shaivism – Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa’s Stava Cintamani, Swami Lakshmanjoo explains why, in Kashmir Shaivism, maya (illusion) is really svatantrya (freedom).
Audio 4 (45:26)
यसयाः परापयेत परयनत-विशेषः कैरमनोरथैः ।
मायामेकनिमेषेण मुषणंसतां पातु नः शिवः ॥॥
yasyah prapyeta paryanta-visesah kairmanorathaih /
mayamekanimesena musnamstam patu nah sivah //73//
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In the summer of 1987, Swamiji began compiling important verses from the various scriptures he had studied throughout his life. Each Sunday he would distribute one or two slokas to devotees, at the same time giving, in brief, their essential meaning. In all Swamiji revealed a total of eighty-five verses. The following year Swamiji traveled to Nepal where he spent a month with the Hughes family recording his revelation on those verses in the “Special Verses on Practice“.
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