In this excerpt, Swami Lakshmanjoo explains how to understand the question correctly. “Śivo ’haṁ cet, if I would have been Śiva, why these things happen against my wishes in this world?” You should not say like that. Why? I’ll make you understand.” This is from the unpublished Trantraloka, Āhnika 14, Verse (and commentary) 28-31, Audio…
In this lecture from the Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, verses 24, Swami Lakshmanjoo reveals the correct way of meditation on breath with “so‘ham” mantra. Dhāraṇā 1 श्रीभैरव उवाच ऊर्ध्वे प्राणो ह्यधो जीवो विसर्गात्मा परोच्चरेत् । उत्पत्तिद्वितयस्थाने, भरणाद्भरिता स्थितिः ॥२४॥ śrī bhairava uvāca ūrdhve prāṇo hyadho jīvo visargātmā…
In this excerpt, Swami Lakshmanjoo explains why is it called shaktipata when we say, “by Lord Śiva’s grace”? This is from the yet unpublished Tantraloka Ahnika 13, verse 331, Kashmir Shaivism. SWAMIJI: That is what he says yastūtpanna samastādhva siddhiḥ that person, that master, who has achieved the complete state of God-consciousness sahi sadāśivaḥ,…
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…