This is an excerpt from the Spanda Sandoha, an exposition of Kṣemarāja on the first verse of the Spanda Kārikā written by Vasuguptanātha, revealed to us by Swami Lakshmanjoo. Available now as complete set under the title The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha – revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo). “He has given the indication…
This excerpt titled “When you rise along with thieves” is from the book The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha – revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo). “Now, he explains in this next śloka that this elevated yogi does not get bondage, does not get bounded, entangled, by these three states: jāgrat [waking],…
Excerpt from the The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha, with a simple but profound message by Swami Lakshmanjoo (Spanda Karika verse 19). Audio 3 – 01:00:17 यदा त्वेकत्र संरूढस्तदा तस्य लयोदयौ । नियच्छन्भोक्तृतामेति ततश्चक्रेश्वरो भवेत् ॥१९॥ yadā tvekatra saṁrūḍhastadā tasya layodayau / niyacchanbhoktṛtāmeti tataścakreśvaro bhavet //19// Just…
An excerpt from the just published “The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta’s Spanda Kārikā & Kṣemarāja’s Spanda Sandoha as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo. What to do when you have slipped from that onepointedness, and you have slipped down. A central theme of the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism is the highly esoteric principal known as spanda….