The yoga of Kashmir Shaivism, Consciousness is everything/
Swami Shankarananda
- Delhi: M. B. Pub., 2006.
- 350 p. HB
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!