Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (sometimes spelt Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a 5000 year old Sanskrit text of the Shaivism. The text is a chapter from the Rudrayamala Tantra, a Bhairava Agama.
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Cast as a discourse between Shiva & his consort Devi or Shakti. Devi asks Shiva to reveal essence of the way to realization of highest reality. In response, Shiva describes 112 ways to enter into universal and transcendental state of consciousness.
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These include several variants of breath awareness, concentration on various centres in the body, non-dual awareness, chanting, imagination and visualisation and contemplation through each of the senses.
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Devi (Ma Parvati, Lord Shiva’s consort) asks:
O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is the wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes seed?
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O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is the wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes seed?
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Who centres the universal wheel?
What is the life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter it fully, above space and time, names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!
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What is the life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter it fully, above space and time, names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!
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And Lord Shiva replies by way of 112 sutras, each one describing a particular meditation technique to find the ultimate reality.
There are nine ways concerning breath:
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There are nine ways concerning breath:
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“1. Lo, Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths, After breath comes in & just before turning up the beneficence.”
“2. As a breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down through both these turns, realise.”
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“2. As a breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down through both these turns, realise.”
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“3. Or, whenever in breath and out breath fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less energy-filled centre.”
“4. Or when breath is all out (up) and stopped in such universal pause, ones small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.”
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“4. Or when breath is all out (up) and stopped in such universal pause, ones small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.”
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“8. Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form fill with breath-essence to top of head & shower there as light.”
“27. When in worldly activity, keep attentive between the two breaths & so practising, in a few days be born anew.”
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“27. When in worldly activity, keep attentive between the two breaths & so practising, in a few days be born anew.”
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“31. With intangible breath in centre of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.”
“39. With utmost devotion, centre on the two junctions of breath and know the knower.”
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“39. With utmost devotion, centre on the two junctions of breath and know the knower.”
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“52. Lie as dead. Enraged in wrath, stay so. Or stare without moving an eyelash. Or suck something and become the sucking.”
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