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Summary of the Contents of the Volume II of Abhinavaguptas Sri Tantraloka and Other Minor Works First Time English

h translation with Sanskrit texts By Professor Satya Prakash Singh and Swami Maheshvarananda This Volume includes four chapters, namely, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. CHAPTER 4: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. This Chapter deals with the way to attainment of the Transcendent Reality through the force of Consciousness. According to it, the nature of that Reality namely Bhairava is Consciousness. It is via proper development of right kind reasoning and discretion, sat tarka, that an aspirant may approach a suitable teacher for instruction in this respect. Kaulika system of practice and philosophy is the way to its entry into which is possible through meditation, yoga, japa, mantra, devotion and samdhi, the state of absorption. Samdhi is the state of unification of the object, subject and the process of understanding. This process to this end lies in fixing the mind to the Essence. Vikalpa is the nature of my, illusion.

8. Body is the resort of consciousness where indwells the Lord. 9. He does not become affected by virtue or vice who gets the taste of oneness with Him via muttering of the mantra hasa.

10. Control over the organs of sense and action along with restraint of mind and intellect is the way to redemption even in the state of enjoyment. 11. Identification of oneself with Goddess of Consciousness amounts to worship of Her. The identification needs to relate to all Her three aspects, namely, will, knowledge and action. 12. Dwelling in the heart amounts to breathing from its core supposing it as stimulated by the Force of Consciousness. 13. Realising oneself as Bhairava in every respect makes the aspirant become one with Him. 14. Devotion to the emblem of iva is advisable only for those who consider themselves a part of the world and not as one with iva Himself. CHAPTER 5: 1. 2. This Chapter deals with the way of attainment of the Transcendent by the jva with its atomicity. Reflection of the Transcendent in the intellect, pra and body is the way to it.

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The understanding that the Jva is essentially iva Himself relieves the aspirant of the sense of duality.

4. Through expansion of his consciousness so as to become inclusive of the entire universe within him makes him one with Bhairava. 5. By silencing all agitations of the mind and returning to his suumn makes the aspirant centred in the core of consciousness. 6. This may be attained in several ways including sound, nda.

7. By resorting himself to iva to the core of his being he may get rid of all agitations of his mind. 8. 9. Remaining concentrated in his illumination of consciousness his moving upward from illumination to illumination is the way to his indwelling iva. Transcending the self through the discretionary of Bhairava within him is the way to oneness with Him.

10. The force of Bhairava appears to expand and contract in the form of the world but essentially it remains eternally constant within Him. CHAPER 6: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. This Chapter is devoted to analysis of the factor of time, klatattva. It is Consciousness which appears in space as something external. It is the vibration of Consciousness which assumes the form of pra and gets rendered in the shape of objects and events. Apna is the moon while pra is fire. The jva is the sun which remains the same all the time. Entrance into suumn nerve is liberative. It is the midday position of the sun of Consciousness Time is the creative force of iva resulting in the appearance of the world.

7. vara is the body of iva and one with the world. 8. 9. It is this body which assumes the form of my to rga and serves as the cloak around the jva. Pra starts moving from the heart and culminates in the dvdanta in the brain.

10. The sense of day and night as also that of meeting point of both of them is due to the movement of pra. 11. The sense of month, year and millenium is there until the waking in the Consciousness with all its constancy. 12. It is the fire of time which causes dissolution as well as creation while the source of it rests in rkatha iva. 13. At the top of the entire process of time lies the Supreme Goddess, the consort of iva.

14. Main nerves in the human body are ten which branch out in thousands through the body. CHAPTER 7: 1. This Chapter is concerned with the awakening and blooming of the nerve-centres known as cakras. 2. Consciousness is one and the same in all its forms of manifestation including savikalpa and nirvikalpa.

3. Vibration of Consciousness resulting in the movement of pra may get stopped via stoppage of the pra. 4. 5. 6. Shifting from one option to the other results in vibration in Consciousness. The force of kualin may get awakened through the application of the power of pra. Having stopped all mental functions the aspirant needs to concentrate on cakras for making the force of kualin rise upward.

7. This division of time depends on the movement of pra while pra has its basis in Consciousness. 8. Time rests on pra while pra rests in the body whose apertures assuming the form of nerves make the body appear and operative.

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