In this excerpt from the book Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening, Swami Lakshmanjoo reflects on the First Awakening, second sūtra, where we have been told that “differentiated perception is bondage.” Now, in the second Awakening with the 9th sūtra, we learn what knowledge means on the level of Shaktopaya and what we need to do here…
9. jñānamannam //
(For such a yogī)
Differentiated perception is his food
or
Knowledge of his own nature is his food.
This yogī eats and d...
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...
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...
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...
