Kashmir Shaivism: TANTRALOKA

Pomposh

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Apr 12, 2009, 5:23:34 AM4/12/09

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SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TANTRALOKA

Abhinavagupta proudly declares that one who constantly practices all
the tenets of Tantraloka is transformed into Bhairava. Thus a finite
being is capable of attaining cosmic personality.

Self-realization is the goal of all spiritual disciplines and the
standard effective tool conceived by them is the power of Godhead.
When the self is realized we can surely induce others to realize self.
No other text has been able to drive this truth home more than the
Tantraloka.

The main reason is Abhinavagupta’s taking recourse to his own
discerning judgment, unfailing sense of right logic, vast command over
Saivistic scriptures and above all his deep insight into Trika
ideology.

Om Namah Shivaye!

Virendra

Bhairitu

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Apr 12, 2009, 7:20:20 PM4/12/09

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Okay, what I want to know is if you really understand what you've just
posted or are just "cut and pasting?" Do you have a Kashmir Shaivism
guru or are you just a spectator? If you are a disciple then please
share in your own words.

Peter

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Apr 13, 2009, 4:15:34 AM4/13/09

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"Bhairitu" <nooz...@sbcglobal.net> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Pomposh wrote:
>>
>> Om Namah Shivaye!
>>
>> Virendra
>
> Okay, what I want to know is if you really understand what you've just
> posted or are just "cut and pasting?" Do you have a Kashmir Shaivism guru
> or are you just a spectator? If you are a disciple then please share in
> your own words.

Please do not use this meditation newsgroup to debate occultism or black
magic.

Bhairitu

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Apr 13, 2009, 12:23:06 PM4/13/09

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So Peter, you're saying that Kashmir Shaivism is black magic? I don't
think so. Now go put on your red shirt and go play with the boys. :D

ric...@rwilliams.us

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May 26, 2009, 3:14:51 PM5/26/09

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On Apr 12, 6:20 pm, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Pomposh wrote:
> > SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TANTRALOKA
>
> > Abhinavagupta proudly declares that one who constantly practices all
> > the tenets of Tantraloka is transformed into Bhairava. Thus a finite
> > being is capable of attaining cosmic personality.
>
> > Self-realization is the goal of all spiritual disciplines and the
> > standard effective tool conceived by them is the power of Godhead.
> > When the self is realized we can surely induce others to realize self.
> > No other text has been able to drive this truth home more than the
> > Tantraloka.
>
> > The main reason is Abhinavagupta’s taking recourse to his own
> > discerning judgment, unfailing sense of right logic, vast command over
> > Saivistic scriptures and above all his deep insight into Trika
> > ideology.
> >

Bhairitu wrote:
> Okay, what I want to know is if you really understand what you've just
> posted or are just "cut and pasting?" Do you have a Kashmir Shaivism
> guru or are you just a spectator? If you are a disciple then please
> share in your own words.
>

And of course the 'Paradise of the Dakinis' isn't heaven - there are
no
enlightened sages in Brahma's 'Heaven of the thirty-three'. Siddhas
do not aspire to get into heaven - siddhas are immortal and aspire to
go to Siddhaloka, the 'other shore' of the Transcendent.

What's overlooked by the Bhairitu is that the Mahasiddhas all
practiced a meditation that is transcendental, just we TMers
practice.
All the Tantrik Siddhas were transcendentalists.

19. Intone a sound audibly, then less and less audible as
feeling deepens into this silent harmony. - Bairava Tantra

"While we are able to come to an understanding of relativity
by way of reasoning, the experience of universality and
completeness can be attained only when all conceptual thought,
all word-thinking, has come to rest. The realization of the
transcendent can come about only in the experience of
meditative practice, through a transformation of our
consciousness"

It was the Mahasiddhas who instituted the practices that
birthed the Inner Tantras of Dzogchen practiced by the Nyingma
school of Tibetan Buddhism. The other schools of Tibetan
Buddhism and other Vajrayana Buddhists such as Shingon
Buddhism practice Mahamudra meditation, also a practice
initiated by the original Buddhist Mahasiddha.

Mahasiddha:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasiddha

Work cited:

'Creative Meditation and Multi-dimensional Conciousness'
by Lama Anagarika Govinda
Theosophical Publishing House, 1976
Author of 'Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism',
'Way of the White Clouds', etc.