The yoga of Kashmir Shaivism, Consciousness is everything/ Swami Shankarananda

Introduction: Consciousness Itself
Study of Consciousness/Trika Hridayam: The Heart of the Teaching of Kashmir
Shaivism or Shaivism in the Vernacular/About This Book
Chapter 1; The Grace of Shiva
I: Sadhana / //; Everything Is Chiti / ///; / Am Shiva / Self-Recognition / Lord
Shiva / The Divine Shakti / The Shape of Shaivism / Shaiva Mandalas
Chapter 2: The Origins of Kashmir Shaivism
Two Approaches: Vedic and Tantric/ Kula and Krama Schools / The Origins of
Kashmir Shaivism/The Trika/Two Contemporary Traditions/I: Vw Scholarly
Tradition /11: The Shaktipat Tradition/ Scholar and Yogi / Reading Shaivism
in English
Chapter 3: A Shaivite Overview
Kashmir Shaivism and the Modem World/Tlw Humanism ofKashmir Shaivism/
Arguing with Vedanta/Yogi and Bhakta: Totapuri and Sri Ramakrishna
Chapter 4: Self-Realisation
Enlightened Beings/The Goal: Self-Realisation/Gurdjieff's Seven Men/There Is
Nothing That Is Not Shiva / Contemplating Bondage / The Sacred Triangle /
A Siddha's Vision/Meditation: The Power of Consciousness
Chapter 5: You Are Your Awareness
Consciousiiess/The Cause of the Universe Is Consciousness/I Am the Subject of
My Universe/Awareness Is the Highest Good/Headless Shiva: First Personism/
Meditation I: Headlessness/Meditation II: Contemplate Your Own Awareness
Chapter 6: The Contraction of Consciousness
/ Am the Subject / Becoming the Mind / Becoming Shiva Again / Meditation I:
Chaitanynmatma/Meditation II: Chiti
Chapter 7: The Tattvas I: Shiva, the Divine Being
The Vision of Shaivism/The Tattvas and the Great Chain ofBeing/The Tattvas/
Tattvas One to Five: The Divine Experience / Language and the First Five
Tattvas/The Five Shaktis of Shiva / Tattva Six: Maya/Tattvas Seven to 11: The
Kanchukas
Chapter 8: The Tattvas 11: Jiva, the Human Being
Tatti'ns 12 and 13: PiinisJia and Prakriti - The Rocks and the Sand/ The Lower
Tattvas — Tattvas 14 to 36: Mind, Senses. Bodi/, World / Understanding the
Tattvas/ The Highest Principle Is Ahvaps Present/ Simplified Tattzm Map and
Maya/Meditation: Layabhavana, Resolving Gross Into Subtle
Chapter 9: ShaiviteYoga: The Three Malas and the Three Upayas
Reiueio / Mala / Upaya / Karma Mala and Anavopaya / Mayiya Mala and
Shaktopaya / Anava Mala and Shambltavopaya / Anupaya: The Methodless
Method/Highest First
Chapter 10: Malas and Upayas:
Further Thoughts and Contemplations
Review/Inquiry/The Malas as A'Statements/The Mains and the Kanchukas/
Meditation 1: The Malas/The Upayas as B- and G-Statements/Malas, Upayas and
Self-Inqiiiri/ / Meditation II: The Knot in the Heart / Shaktipat in the Upayas /
Samavesha/ A Summnrx/ of Mains and Upayas/The Upayas as Perspectives /
/I Caveat/Meditation III: T Am Pure Consciousness'/Meditation IV: Towards
Oneness
Chapter 11: The Five Processes and the Yoga of Self-Inquiry:
Burning It to Sameness
The Five Processes/Meditation on the Five Processes/The Esoteric Five Processes
and Shaivite Self-Inquiry/ Burning It to Sameness: Hathapaka and Alamgrasa /
Shiva Vyapti: Realisation in Shaivism/Meditation on the Esoteric Five Processes:
Daily Reinew
Chapter 12: The Divine Narrator
Overcoming Limitations/The Doctrine ofRecognition/The Narrator/Key Words
in the Pratyabhijnahridayam /The Plot of the Pratyabhijnahridayam/The Turn/
The Coal/Meditation on Your Shiva Nature
Chapter 13; Methods of Meditation I:
Pratyabhijnahridayam Sutra 18
The Drama of Consciousness / Vikalpa-Kshaya: The Dissolution of Thought
Forms/Meditation I: Vikalpa-Kshaya/Sankocha of Shakti/Meditation II: Sankocha
of Shakti / Vikasa of Shakti / Meditation III: Vikasa of Shakti / Krama Mudra /
Meditation IV: Krama Mudra / Vaha-Chedd / Adyanta-Koti Nibhalana: Hamsa
Technique/Meditation V: The Space Betioeen the Breaths/The Breath of the Three
Rivers/Meditation VI: The Breath of the Three Riz>ers
Chapter 14: Shaiva Tantra: The Yoga of the Upward Shift
Unnieshn / Upzonni Shift Yoga / Doubt 'ami Conviction / Meditation on the Bliss
of the World
Chapter 15: Methods of Meditation II: The Vijnanabhairava
Dharanas/Essential G-Statenients: Dharanas 40, 42 and 81/Handling Desire-
Three Strategies: Dharanas 73, 74 and 75/Shiva Is Everyivhere: Dharnna 91/The
Essence of Tantra: Dharana 93 / One-Word G-Statements: Dharana 107 /
Equanimity: Dharanas 100 and 101
Chapter 16: Turiya: The Fourth State
Matter and Consciousness/The States ofConsciousness/Meditation I: The Fourth
State/Living in Azoareness/Wonder Rasa: Vze Attitude ofWonder/The Play of
Chiti/Meditation II: The Dance of the Mind
Chapter 17: The Rasas: Abhinavagupta, Art and Spirituality
Aesthetics and Abhinavagupita/The Rasas/Disgust/ShantaRasa/TIic Audience /
Meditation on the Rasa of the Diinne
Chapter 18: Language Mysticism in Shaivism I: Matrika
The Vision of Consciousness/Language, Bondage and Liberation/Four Levels of
Speech/Meditation I: The Lez'els of Speech/Matrika/Meditation II: Matrika
Chapter 19: Language Mysticism in Shaivism II: Self-Inquiry
Self-Inquirxj/The Kula-Chakra Group Ritual/Shiva Process Self-Inquiry Group/
Shaivism and Emotion / Relationship Between Thought and Feeling / Group
Practice/Contempliltion: Doing Self-Inquiry/The ArtofYogicThinking/'TIunking
It Through' Meditation
Chapter 20: Language Mysticism in Shaivism III: Mantra
The Power of the Manfra/Chaitanya Mantra/The Mind Is Mantra /Meditation:
Om Namah Shivaya
Chapter 21: Being Present: Deconstructing Time and Space
Begin Where You Are / Meditation I: Being Present / Shiva Process and
Layabhazmna / Deco)istructing Time/ Meditation II: Subtle Language/
Deconstructing Space / Meditation 111: A Variety of Possibilities/An Important
Hintfor the Meditator
Chapter 22: Shakti Chakra: The Collective Whole of Energies
Lord of the Shaktis/Shiva Asana/The Shaktis/Meditations on the Shakti Chakra
Chapter 23: Anupaya
Vie Fourth Upa\jn/Vie Natural State/Bondage and Liberation/Living in Satsang /
Shaktipat/Meditation: Divine Acceptance
Chapter 24: Love
First Person, Second Person, Viird Person/Douglas Harding and First Personism /
Martin Buber and I-Thou / Kashmir Shaivism and Devotion / Heart-to-Heart
Meditation
Chapter 25: Conclusion: The Living Spirit of Shaivism
Approaching the Truth/Inquiry/Shaivism as the Path ofthe Heart/May There Be
Welfarefor All!