The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: by Swami Lakshmanjoo,John Howard Hughes PDF

By Swami Lakshmanjoo,John Howard Hughes

ISBN-10: 0996636552

ISBN-13: 9780996636551

ISBN-10: 0996636579

ISBN-13: 9780996636575

   A imperative subject of the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism is the hugely esoteric primary often called spanda. Swami Lakshmanjoo tells us that the notice ‘spanda’ skill confirmed sturdy circulate. that's, it's movementless-movement, vibrationless-vibration. it really is this mystery, mysterious and but crucial precept that Swami Lakshmanjoo clarifies and elucidates in his revelation of the 2 texts dealing particularly with this precept, the Spanda Karika and the Spanda Sandoha.

    the speculation of spanda isn't new. It was once hidden within the physique of the Tantras and extracted via Vasugupta, founding father of the Shiva Sutras, and initiator of monistic Shaivism within the valley of Kashmir. Vasugupta composed the Spanda Karika, a textual content full of the fundamentalprecepts (karikas) concerning spanda and the philosophy surrounding it. 

    Kṣhemaraja, the executive disciple of the extremely important and primary determine within the culture of Kashmir Shaivism, Abhinavagupta, is the writer of the second one pivotal textual content concerning spanda, the Spanda Sandoha. this article is an in depth exposition (sandoha) at the first verse of the Spanda Karika.

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