Vijnana Bhairava Archives - Lakshmanjoo Academy, Kashmir Shaivism

The exact medicine is that medicine where you have to do nothing. It is terrible, you can’t do that. You have to digest it with these upāyas, these means, with some support in the beginning, and that support is these one hundred and twelve ways. There is no way to achieve that, actually. One hundred and twelve ways are just in place of sugar candy. ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

Why ‘One hundred and twelve ways’ are just in place of sugar candy

In this excerpt, from the Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra verse 7-13, Swami Lakshmanjoo reveals why “One ‘hundred and twelve ways are just in…

Be attached to your own practice. It will carry you to śāktopāya and śāmbhavopāya in its own way. ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

Introduction and approach to the Vijnana Bhairava by Swami Lakshmanjoo

This is an instruction to The Manual for Self Realization, 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava, and how to approach it, by Swami Lakshmanjoo. Vijñāna Bhairava is one chapter in…

In each and every action, focus your mind in dvādaśānta (i.e. point between the eyebrows). When held in continuity, one is born anew. Swami Lakshmanjoo

How to be born anew in days, not in months – Kashmir Shaivism

In this excerpt from the Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Swami Lakshmanjoo reveals how to be born anew in days, not in months. His…

The path is Śakti, the path is not Śiva ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

The path is Shakti (energy); the path is not Shiva. (Vijnana Bhairava verse 20-21)

Swamiji elaborates on why “The path is Shakti (energy); the path is not Shiva.” and why “Energy is the real path you have to tread.” This lecture is an excerpt…

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