Swami Lakshmanjoo - Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening - Audio Study Set

The Supreme Awakening

Vasuguptas hiva Stra Vimrin

WITH KEMARJAS COMMENTARY

Revealed by

Swami Lakshmanjoo

John Hughes, Editor

Lakshmanjoo Academy

Published by:

Lakshmanjoo Academy

First Edition:

Copyright 2001 by Uiversal Shaiva Fellowship

Second Edition:

Copyright 2007 by Universal Shaiva Fellowship

Third Edition:

Copyright 2015 John Hughes

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ISBN 13: 978-0-9966365-3-7 (ebook)

This book, hivaStras: The Supreme Awakening, is revealed by the twentieth centurys great philosopher saint Swami Lakshmanjoo. This spiritual treasure, gifted by God to the sage Vasugupta for the upliftment of humankind, is considered to be one of Kashmir Shaivisms most important scriptures. Here, Swami Lakshmanjoo gives the reader a penetrating vision of the glorious journey of the Supreme Awakening; the traveling from limited individuality to absolute oneness with God. This secret teaching, contained within these pages, is revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo for the first time. Drawing on his own experience Swami Lakshmanjoo, basing his rendering on the esoteric commentary of Abinavaguptas chief disciple Kshemaraja, shows us the way home.

Contents

Expanded Contents

FIRST AWAKENING

Supreme consciousness is the reality of everything.

Knowing differentiatedly is bondage and not knowing undifferentiatedly is bondage.

Myyamala and krmamala are also bondage.

The Universal Mother commands this triple knowledge.

That effort, the flashing forth of active awareness that instantaneously makes universal consciousness shine, is Bhairava.

By establishing and meditating on the wheel of energies the differentiated universe comes to an end.

Such a heroic yogi experiences the expansive state of turya in the differentiated states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep.

External organic knowledge constitutes the waking state.

Internal perceptions and thoughts comprise the dreaming state.

Forgetfulness and the negation of awareness is the dreamless state or my.

The one who enjoys the oneness of the three states, waking, dreaming and deep sleep in turya becomes the master of all organic energies.

The predominant sign of such a yog is joy filled amazement.

His will is the energy of Lord iva and it is called um and kumri, or

For such a yog his will is one with the energy of Lord iva, unobstructable, completely independent, always given to play.

This entire perceived world is his own self, or

His own body is just like an object to him.

When his thoughts are diverted to the center of God consciousness then he feels the existence of God consciousness in oneness in the objective world and in the world of negation.

Or by aiming at the pure element of iva he possesses ivas unlimited energy.

Any inference of such a yog is knowledge of his own real self.

The joy of his mystical trance (samdhi) is bliss for the whole universe.

By infusing his energy of will the embodiment of that which is willed occurs at once.

By the greatness of this achievement of the energy of will the yog can focus his awareness and heal the sick and suffering, separate elements from his body and be free from the limitations of space and time.

(When this yog does not desire limited powers and is eager to attain the knowledge of universal being then)... pure knowledge rises and by that knowledge he becomes the master of the universal wheel.

By the attentive continuity of meditation on the great ocean of consciousness the power of supreme I is attained.

SECOND AWAKENING

Mind is mantra.

(For such a yog) pauseless effort brings about his attainment of God consciousness.

The secret essence of mantra is establishment in the body of the knowledge of oneness.

When a yogs mind is satisfied with the expansive body of illusion then he falls in the world of differentiated perceptions and his knowledge of being is just like that of ordinary living beings.

The pure knowledge of God consciousness effortlessly rises and this state of iva is realized as one with the state of khecar.

The master (guru) is the means.

(The disciple attains) the knowledge of the wheel of the hidden mother (Mtikcakra).

The establishment of I consciousness on the body becomes an offering in the fire of God consciousness.

(For such a yog) differentiated perception is his food, or

knowledge of his own nature is his food.

Although he is established in God consciousness in samdhi, yet not being able to maintain awareness, after a short time he enters into the dreaming state.

THIRD AWAKENING

Individual being is the mind entangled in the wheel of repeated birth and death.

(For this limited individual), all knowledge is bondage.

Being unable to possess the undifferentiated knowledge of the 31 elements, you live in those elements, from kal to pithv (earth), which are the expansion of the energy of illusion (my akti).

You must make all the circles (kals) in your body enter one into the other from gross to subtle.

The merging of the movements of breathing, controlling the gross elements, diverting attention from all objective senses and directing it towards the center of the movement of the breath, and removing your consciousness from the grip of the elementary field....

These powers are brought into existence when a yogis consciousness is covered by the energy of illusion (my).

After conquering the field of illusion (my) by destroying its many impressions, one attains the victory of the pure knowledge of consciousness.

The waking state is another formation of his real nature of consciousness.

The dancer in this field of universal dance is his self of universal consciousness.

The player is the internal soul

His own organs are spectators.

By means of a supreme intellect filled with the awareness of the self, this yog experiences that he is actually acting.

The state of absolute independence is already achieved.

This (absolute independence) is the same in the external world as it was in samdhi.

Maintain breakless awareness on that supreme energy which is the seed of the universe.

Seated in that real posture, he effortlessly dives in the ocean of nectar.

Experiencing that this objective world is the product of his subjective consciousness, he can create anything he desires.

When his knowledge of the Self is permanently established, then birth (and death) are gone forever.

In the world of letters, words and sentences, the eight energies of the Lord, who are the mothers of beasts (take control and hold him).

The fourth state (turya) must be expanded like oil so that it pervades the other three: waking, dreaming and deepsleep.

The yog who is merged in his self must enter completely with his mind filled with great awareness.

When his breath begins to slowly move out toward the external state, then he also experiences the pervasion of God consciousness there.