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Sri Kramanaya Pradipika. Author(s): Swami Lakshman Joo. [Language: Sanskrit+English] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 #pradipika; #shaiva; #shaivism; #tantrism; #tantra; #literature; #ancient. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Swami Lakshmanjoo's Śrīkramanaya-pradīpikā is a splendid treastise on Krama, which is the most enigmatic of the doctrines of the Uttaramnaya (Northern transmission), with its origin in the Uttarapitha (Northern sacred seat) in Oddiyāna (Swat Valley, Pakistan), and its perpetuation as a living tradition in Kashmir, India. Written in Sanskritized Hindi during the winter of 1958 under a vow of silence, the usage of language here is as ornate as it is beauteous. It presents the twelve Kālīs as sequential states of consciousness, through explanations of the verses of the ancient Kramastotra, attributed to Siddhanātha, that are substantiated with ślokas, mostly from the Utpala Stotrāvalī and the Tantraloka, by Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta respectively. There is also a consistent effort throughout this text in bringing out the profound content of the fourth chapter (Śāktopāya) of the Tantrāloka in an elucidated manner. Swamiji wrote this book out of the necessity of preserving this subject from being lost in oblivion, as such an effort had not been made by the preceding Śaiva saints of Kashmir, although the slokas of the twelve Kālis were read as part of their self-study, leading to them being restricted to very few Śaiva readers. This translation aims to bring to the fore this book to those for whom Hindi is inaccessible. It is sincerely hoped that this effort will make this important text more widely known to a readership conversant in English.

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Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism: Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka - Chapters Two and Three. [pdf] Author(s): Ācārya Abhinavagupta; Revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 #shaivism; #tantra; #agama; #tantrictexts; #tantrism; #guru; #abhinavagupta; #guru; #lakshmanjoo; #shaiva; #shastra; #tantraloka. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism: Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka - Chapters Two and Three. Author(s): Ācārya Abhinavagupta; Revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo. This profound text is concerned with the philosophy and practice known as Kashmir Shaivism. On account of its size and scope it is a veritable encyclopedia of non-dual Shaivism. Why was the Tantraloka written? In answer to this question Abhinavagupta tells us that, although in the schools of Kashmir Shaivism there are many wonderful and important ways and methods for attaining the supreme reality, yet in his time not even one was still existing. All of those ways and methods were lost. It is for this reason that he was requested by his colleagues and disciples to create a text that would illuminate and clarify all of these ways and methods of Kashmir Shaivism. To accomplish this, Abhinavagupta composed the Tantraloka, a text, which he tells us is filled with the complete explanation of the ways and methods associated with Kashmir Shaivism. That is to say that the philosophical understanding on the level of the intellect might have been existing, but the actual practical means or methods to be used to attain the supreme reality – oneness with Universal Being – to which they all pointed was lost. Abhinavagupta was intent, therefore, to revive the true understanding of these very important teachings, to make the practices that they embodied live again. For what is the use of a map if you have no way to reach the destination? Thus, Abhinavagupta gave us the Tantraloka to remedy this situation. The Tantraloka is composed of thirty seven chapters (ahnikas). Each chapter has it’s own distinct topic.

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शिव की शास्त्रसत्ता और शिवधर्मोत्तर : अनेकानेक शास्त्रों का प्रणयन उनके सदास्मितमुखारविन्द से हुआ है। वेदों, ब्राह्मणों से लेकर क्रियानुष्ठानमूलक ग्रन्थों, प्रस्तुतिपरक और शिल्प-स्थापत्य सम्मत शास्त्रों में भी शिव के बहुविध प्रसंग रचे और सम्पादित किए गए हैं। यह शिव की सर्वत्रगोचर सत्ता का सुपरिभाषित स्वरूप है। उनके सद्योजात, वामदेव, महाघोर, तत्पुरुष और ईशान इन पाँचों ही मुखों से. लोकोपयोगी शास्त्रों का प्रवर्तन हुआ है— सद्योवाममहाघोरपुरुषेशानमूर्तयः । प्रत्येकं पञ्चवक्त्रास्त्युस्तैरुक्तं लौकिकादिकम् । (कामिकागम पूर्व. 3, 18-19) ऐसे शैवधर्मसम्मत शास्त्रों में शिवधर्मोत्तर को पुराण के रूप में आदर प्राप्त रहा है। आधुनिक विद्वानों ने इसको शास्त्र के रूप में भी परिभाषित किया गया है। इसके मूल में कारण है कि स्वयं इसी ग्रन्थ में आया है— शिवधर्मोत्तरं नाम शास्त्रं ईश्वरभाषितम्। किन्तु, यह अगस्त्य-स्कन्द के संवाद के रूप में उपलब्ध है। कामिकागम में शिवधर्मोत्तर का प्राचीनतम सन्दर्भ मिलता है। उसके तन्त्रावतार पटल में जिस ऋषि ने जिस विद्या-शास्त्र को रचा अथवा प्रचारित किया, उनकी विस्तृत सूची मिलती है। यह पटल भारतीय शास्त्रों की उपलब्धता व उनके प्रसारित-प्रचारित होने के सन्दर्भ की दृष्टि से अति ही मूल्यवान है। क्योंकि, इसमें परा-अपरा भेद से शिव प्रकाशक ज्ञान और शिवज्ञान की सूचियाँ हैं। इनको भी लौकिक, वैदिक और आध्यात्मिक तथा अतिमार्गी, मन्त्र नामक और तन्त्रसम्मत भेदों में विभाजित किया गया है। यही नहीं, इसमें शास्त्रों को आपाद शिरस् स्वरूप में भी आकल्पित किया गया है। इसमें नृसिंह से प्राप्य सोमभेद नाम से जिन ग्रन्थों का उल्लेख है, वे पाँच प्रकार के बताए गए हैं और इनमें ही शिवधर्मोत्तर को उपागम के रूप में स्वीकार किया गया है— नृसिंहः प्राप्तवान् सोमोद्भेदः पञ्चविधो भवेत्। शिवधर्मोत्तरं चैव वायुप्रोक्तं तथैव च ॥ दिव्यप्रोक्तमथैशानं शर्वोद्‌गीतं विधीयते । (कामिकागम पूर्व. 3, 84-85)