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Why the acting of a yogi is just like the acting of Shiva
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Why the acting of a yogi is just like the acting of Shiva shiva spanda kārikā & spanda sandoha yogi Aug 26, 2025

Swami Lakshmanjoo explains why the acting of a yogi is just like the acting of Shiva in this excerpt from the Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism – Spanda Kārikā & Spanda Sandoha.

 

Audio 5 – 27:52

pramāpitaṁ ca etat pratyabhijñāyām [not recited]

cidātmaiva hi devo’ntaḥ sthitamicchāvaśādbahiḥ /

yogīva nirūpādānamarthajātaṁ prakāśayet198 //199

 

Just like a yogi, the acting of a yogi is just like the acting of Śiva. Śiva acts just as a yogi acts. Cidātmaiva, cidātma (Ś...

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Article in "The Speaking Tree": You Are Shiva kashmir shaivism sambhava samavesa yogi Aug 25, 2025

Article from “The Speaking Tree” by John Hughes…..

 

Swami Lakshmanjoo, of the Kashmir Shaivism tradition, says you too can experience bliss

Are you asking whether sambhava samavesa, the mystical absorption in the state of Shiva, is equivalent to moksha, liberation? In fact, it is not. It certainly must exist if moksha is to occur, but it is not its defining characteristic. Philosopher and aesthetician Abhinavagupta tells us in his Tantraloka that “Moksha only exists when your being becomes...

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Why, when you are in samādhi and are unable to maintain awareness (Shiva Sutras 3.10)
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Why, when you are in samādhi and are unable to maintain awareness (Shiva Sutras 3.10) samadhi shiva sutras yogi Apr 08, 2024

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?”

 
 

10. vidyāsaṁhāre tadutthasvapnadarśanam //

(Second awakening verse 10)

(The text below is from the book, it is not a transcript)

Although he is established in
 God consciousness in s...

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