Don’t be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form, can escape the sufferings of the body and mind. Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.
Even a blade of grass cannot stir without the will of God, my son. When a creature falls on good times his thoughts turn to prayer; when he falls on bad times, all is evil. It is all according to God’s will. It is God alone who expresses His will through the actions of man.
What powers did Naren (Swami Vivekananda) have by himself? It was because God acted through him that he achieved what he did. The Lord knows what He is about to perform. But should a man surrender himself totally at His feet, He will do everything for him. One must bear with everything, because it is all due to cause and effect, according to one’s Karma.
And Karma counteracts the effects of one’s previous Karma. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
~Sri Sarada Devi
•From: The Holy Mother - Life and Teachings
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Even a blade of grass cannot stir without the will of God, my son. When a creature falls on good times his thoughts turn to prayer; when he falls on bad times, all is evil. It is all according to God’s will. It is God alone who expresses His will through the actions of man.
What powers did Naren (Swami Vivekananda) have by himself? It was because God acted through him that he achieved what he did. The Lord knows what He is about to perform. But should a man surrender himself totally at His feet, He will do everything for him. One must bear with everything, because it is all due to cause and effect, according to one’s Karma.
And Karma counteracts the effects of one’s previous Karma. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
~Sri Sarada Devi
•From: The Holy Mother - Life and Teachings
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Jamini: What is the cause of my bondage and ultimate freedom? Baba Lokenath: There is one reason. One who binds you also frees you from bondage. She is Goddess, Mahamaya. She is the one who has created this entire cosmos. By worship, if you can please Her, She will bless and free you from bondage. You are bound by your tongue and sexual desire. When you are free of the attachments to these you will be free. When you are hungry, eat. Eat as much as you need to appease your hunger. Do not eat more. When you are not hungry, or once you’ve had enough, don’t eat out of greed or due to pressure from others. There is no need to go without food when you have hunger. Meditate and worship your hunger. Don’t worship greed or your tongue.
‘Yea Devi Sarva Bhuteshu Kshudha rupena samsthita.’
The Divine Mother manifests as hunger in all living beings. Therefore, eat while meditating, offering oblations to the fire of hunger in your stomach.
Jamini: How am I to know whether I am bound or free? Baba Lokenath: The touchstone is the feeling of unhappiness. When you never feel unhappy either in pleasure or pain, insult or praise, cold or heat, when you remain in state of equanimity, then you can believe that you are freed!~The Incredible Life of a Himalayan Yogi, Chapter 17, P. 230-231
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Question: Do you believe in heaven and hell existing as some independent planes apart from this earth-plane of ours?
Swami Sivananda: Why not? They are also planes of existence just like ours. They are as real as the earthly plane. All the worlds [Lokas] and all the Tirthas [sacred rivers] are existent in the human being himself, if he has belief in the scriptures. One can enjoy heaven or hell in this birth if he so wishes. The greater the grossness, the more intense will be the torture and suffering till such time as the individual is refined and fit for the descent of the Lord’s grace by repeated calcinations or purificatory processes. If you want to enjoy heaven on earth, go on purifying yourself by controlling the lower mind, the desires and cravings. All is bliss, all is joy, all is happiness then. If you allow a free rein to the horses of the senses and yield to the prompting of the devilish mind, if you follow the path of Adharma, hell itself will prevail, not elsewhere in some incredible region, but here on this earth itself.
Question: If I say, "I am a king", I cannot become a king. So also, if I repeat "Aham Brahma Asmi", I cannot become Brahman.
Swami Sivananda: Besides saying "I am a king", you will have to prepare yourself. You will have to gather a large number of men. You will have to learn many things. You will have to fight.
Even so, you will have to prepare and purify the mind. You will have to acquire the four means of salvation—
•Viveka [discrimination between the real and the unreal],
•Vairagya [dispassion],
•Shad Sampat [sixfold virtues] and •Mumukshutva [eagerness for liberation].
Then you will have to do Sravana [hearing of the Srutis], Manana [reflection] and Nidhidhyasan [constant and profound meditation]. Then only you will get Atma Sakshatkara or Brahma Anubhava.
~May I Answer That?: A Guide for Spiritual Seekers, Q. 222, 226
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Swami Sivananda: Why not? They are also planes of existence just like ours. They are as real as the earthly plane. All the worlds [Lokas] and all the Tirthas [sacred rivers] are existent in the human being himself, if he has belief in the scriptures. One can enjoy heaven or hell in this birth if he so wishes. The greater the grossness, the more intense will be the torture and suffering till such time as the individual is refined and fit for the descent of the Lord’s grace by repeated calcinations or purificatory processes. If you want to enjoy heaven on earth, go on purifying yourself by controlling the lower mind, the desires and cravings. All is bliss, all is joy, all is happiness then. If you allow a free rein to the horses of the senses and yield to the prompting of the devilish mind, if you follow the path of Adharma, hell itself will prevail, not elsewhere in some incredible region, but here on this earth itself.
Question: If I say, "I am a king", I cannot become a king. So also, if I repeat "Aham Brahma Asmi", I cannot become Brahman.
Swami Sivananda: Besides saying "I am a king", you will have to prepare yourself. You will have to gather a large number of men. You will have to learn many things. You will have to fight.
Even so, you will have to prepare and purify the mind. You will have to acquire the four means of salvation—
•Viveka [discrimination between the real and the unreal],
•Vairagya [dispassion],
•Shad Sampat [sixfold virtues] and •Mumukshutva [eagerness for liberation].
Then you will have to do Sravana [hearing of the Srutis], Manana [reflection] and Nidhidhyasan [constant and profound meditation]. Then only you will get Atma Sakshatkara or Brahma Anubhava.
~May I Answer That?: A Guide for Spiritual Seekers, Q. 222, 226
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🌿CONVERSATIONS WITH ANANDAMAYI MA🌿
Question: People are asked to worship God, to sing His praise in hymns, to perform puja, to repeat constantly His name, and they do all this without knowing what God is. Will you please explain?
Ma: God is all-knowledge, and one cannot know His true nature till one attains Self-Realisation. Then one will find Him to be none other than oneself, the only Atman, the only Self there is, and that He is with form as the world and without form as Chit, Pure Consciousness. In the meantime, prayers, worship and meditation have to be performed.
Question: How can our minds be free for prayer and meditation. When we are so burdened by work and family responsibilities? What should we do in that case?
Ma: Let the work be done of its own accord, without strain. Work without the feeling that it is you who are working. Take it as if it is God's work, done through you as His instrument. Then your mind will be at rest and peaceful. That is prayer and meditation.
If the breath and the mind become one pointed and steady, then the mind expands to infinity. Think of Him with every breath. Remember that He breathes through you. Everything is happening at His will. Always try to keep this thought alive. His contemplation is the only path.
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Question: People are asked to worship God, to sing His praise in hymns, to perform puja, to repeat constantly His name, and they do all this without knowing what God is. Will you please explain?
Ma: God is all-knowledge, and one cannot know His true nature till one attains Self-Realisation. Then one will find Him to be none other than oneself, the only Atman, the only Self there is, and that He is with form as the world and without form as Chit, Pure Consciousness. In the meantime, prayers, worship and meditation have to be performed.
Question: How can our minds be free for prayer and meditation. When we are so burdened by work and family responsibilities? What should we do in that case?
Ma: Let the work be done of its own accord, without strain. Work without the feeling that it is you who are working. Take it as if it is God's work, done through you as His instrument. Then your mind will be at rest and peaceful. That is prayer and meditation.
If the breath and the mind become one pointed and steady, then the mind expands to infinity. Think of Him with every breath. Remember that He breathes through you. Everything is happening at His will. Always try to keep this thought alive. His contemplation is the only path.
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🌿Scriptures alone are the guide for
comprehending the metaphysical and the transcendental. The rest are not authoritative because of the individual’s limitations, the absence of reliable tests for their accuracy, and of the repeated failures of attempts which ignore God.
🌿The universe must have a Creator, and He must be an intelligent principle, but He cannot be of any known type because of the vastness of the creation. Scriptures speak of the unique Creator, the Lord who was before creation, being self-contained. He created the universe by His own power.
🌿Just as the dreamer is not to be confounded with the dream so is the Lord not to be confounded with the creation. Just as a man survives his dream, so does the Lord survive the dissolution of His creation. Just as you remain as pure consciousness beyond the body, so is the Lord, unbounded consciousness beyond the [material] universe.
~Lord Dattatreya to Lord Parshurama 🕉
•Tripura Rahasya, Verses from Chapter 11
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comprehending the metaphysical and the transcendental. The rest are not authoritative because of the individual’s limitations, the absence of reliable tests for their accuracy, and of the repeated failures of attempts which ignore God.
🌿The universe must have a Creator, and He must be an intelligent principle, but He cannot be of any known type because of the vastness of the creation. Scriptures speak of the unique Creator, the Lord who was before creation, being self-contained. He created the universe by His own power.
🌿Just as the dreamer is not to be confounded with the dream so is the Lord not to be confounded with the creation. Just as a man survives his dream, so does the Lord survive the dissolution of His creation. Just as you remain as pure consciousness beyond the body, so is the Lord, unbounded consciousness beyond the [material] universe.
~Lord Dattatreya to Lord Parshurama 🕉
•Tripura Rahasya, Verses from Chapter 11
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🍃🌸Illusion of Pleasure🌸🍃
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🌿सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषत: |
मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्तत: || 24||
🌿शनै: शनैरुपरमेद्बुद्ध्या धृतिगृहीतया |
आत्मसंस्थं मन: कृत्वा न किञ्चिदपि चिन्तयेत् || 25||
>Completely renouncing all desires arising from thoughts of the world, one should restrain the senses from all sides with the mind. Slowly and steadily, with conviction in the intellect, the mind will become fixed in God alone, and will think of nothing else.
🌿यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् |
ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत् || 26||
>Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.
🌿प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् |
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् || 27||
>Great transcendental happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is calm, whose passions are subdued, who is without sin, and who sees everything as one with God.
~Lord Krishna 🕉
•Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verses 24-27
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मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्तत: || 24||
🌿शनै: शनैरुपरमेद्बुद्ध्या धृतिगृहीतया |
आत्मसंस्थं मन: कृत्वा न किञ्चिदपि चिन्तयेत् || 25||
>Completely renouncing all desires arising from thoughts of the world, one should restrain the senses from all sides with the mind. Slowly and steadily, with conviction in the intellect, the mind will become fixed in God alone, and will think of nothing else.
🌿यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् |
ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत् || 26||
>Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.
🌿प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् |
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् || 27||
>Great transcendental happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is calm, whose passions are subdued, who is without sin, and who sees everything as one with God.
~Lord Krishna 🕉
•Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verses 24-27
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🇮🇳Shall India Die?🇮🇳
🪔 By Swami Vivekananda 🪔
•Duration - 2 minutes
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🇮🇳Shall India Die?🇮🇳
🪔 By Swami Vivekananda 🪔
•Duration - 2 minutes
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Question: What determines whether an act is a merit (puṇya) or a sin (pāpa)? Answer: There are different types of karmas, or actions: 🌿Nitya karmas (daily duties)
🌿Naimittika karmas (special duties)
🌿Kāmya karmas (desire born actions)
🌿Niṣiddha karmas (wrongful actions)
🌿Prāyaścitta karmas (actions of penance to improve oneself)
Karmas are performed through three instruments:
🌿Manas (mind)
🌿Vāk (speech)
🌿Kāyā (body)
The results of karmas can be seen in these three categories:
🌿Puṇya karmas (meritorious, or dhārmika actions, leading to good results)
🌿Pāpa karmas (wrong, or adhārmika actions, leading to bad results)
🌿Miśra karmas (actions having mixed results)
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Karmas by mind (thoughts): Noble thoughts about bhakti (devotion), vairāgya (dispassion), charity, spiritual evolution, and so on, are mental puṇya karmas. Lustful thoughts pertaining to sense enjoyments, harming others and disrespect for the scriptures, traditions, and dharma are mental pāpa karmas. An admixture of both types is known as miśra karma. In simple terms, Swami Chinmayananda explains puṇya karmas as ‘self congratulatory acts’ and pāpa karmas as ‘self insulting acts.’
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Karmas by speech (words):Regularly reciting or reading the scriptures, chanting mantras and hymns, singing devotional songs, speaking truthful and noble words, offering others words of love, compassion, and so on, are puṇya karmas performed by speech. Words of disrespect for the scriptures, verbal abuse of the Lord and Mahātmās, engaging in lies or cruel, offensive and, unsympathetic talk, and so on are pāpa karmas of speech.
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Karmas by body (actions): Bathing in holy waters, prostrating to the Guru, the Lord and saintly persons, performing worship (pūjās), seeking the presence of holy beings, submitting to tapas (sacrifice and discipline), and so on, are puṇya karmas of the body. Immoral acts, causing injury to others, indulging in cruelty, associating with cruel persons, and so on, are pāpa karmas of the body. Troubling others while doing a good deed, misappropriation of another’s wealth or property in the process of doing good work (for example, building temples, giving charity), not giving proper remuneration for services rendered, and so on, are all miśra karmas of the body.
Vedavyāsa has said,
“Paropakārāya puṇyāya pāpāya parapīḍanam”,“Doing good to others at any of these three levels of body, speech, and mind is puṇya. Injuring others at any of these levels is pāpa.”
Puṇya is that which helps us evolve and pāpa is that by which we devolve or by which our progress stagnates.
~From: Hinduism FAQs, Part 1, Question 18
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🌻SIGNS OF A LEARNED FOOL🌻
🍃One who advocates unrestrained actions, does not believe in the worship of God with attributes, and criticizes one's own inherent duty (swadharma) and spiritual practice (sadhana), is a learned fool.
🍃Considering himself to be knowledgeable, he criticizes others and sees defects in all living beings. He is a learned fool.
🍃One who criticizes an entire text without reading all of it, who unnecessarily finds fault in it, and who only looks for its negative attributes, is a learned fool.
🍃One who gets bored when hearing about the good attributes, who out of jealousy bothers others, and who is arrogant and does not act with morality and justice, is a learned fool.
🍃One who is knowingly stubborn, cannot control his anger, and whose actions are not in accord with his speech, is a learned fool.
🍃One who finds fault with his elders, even though he has the same faults that he does not see, is a learned fool.
🍃One who instead of praising God only praises men and whatever his eyes see, is a learned fool.
🍃One who has no devotional practice, no detachment, nor does any singing of the praises of God or Guru, and does not practice what he preaches, is a learned fool.
🍃One who does not recognize various pilgrimage and holy places, or the Vedas and other ancient scriptures, and one who is born into a holy family yet does not recognize what is holy himself, is a learned fool.
🍃One, who while listening, constantly analyzes the virtues and defects of the speaker, and becomes jealous about the virtues of others, is a learned fool.
🍃One who is well educated and detached, or who is a great yogi with the Knowledge of Brahman yet indulges in fortune telling, is a learned fool.
🍃One who listens to spiritual explanations day and night yet does not give up undesirable attributes, and who does not know what is in his own best interest, is a learned fool.
🍃One who develops uneasiness in the body and gets irritated when listening to discourses, as well as generally gets irritated with bodily problems, is a learned fool.
🍃One who gets carried away with pride in wealth, and one who ignores the tradition of one's Sadhguru, yet claims the guru’s tradition for himself, is a learned fool.
🍃One who speaks of Self-Knowledge yet behaves selfishly, accumulates money like a miser, and takes advantage of spiritual lifestyle to become wealthy, is a learned fool.
🍃One who interrupts the continuity of the path of devotion, and who creates divisions among people is a learned fool.
🍃One whose family life slips through his hands, who does not know anything of Paramartha, and who hates God and the knowers of Brahman, is a learned fool.
~Sri Samartha Ramdas
•Verses from Dasbodh, Chapter 2, S.C. 10
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🍃One who advocates unrestrained actions, does not believe in the worship of God with attributes, and criticizes one's own inherent duty (swadharma) and spiritual practice (sadhana), is a learned fool.
🍃Considering himself to be knowledgeable, he criticizes others and sees defects in all living beings. He is a learned fool.
🍃One who criticizes an entire text without reading all of it, who unnecessarily finds fault in it, and who only looks for its negative attributes, is a learned fool.
🍃One who gets bored when hearing about the good attributes, who out of jealousy bothers others, and who is arrogant and does not act with morality and justice, is a learned fool.
🍃One who is knowingly stubborn, cannot control his anger, and whose actions are not in accord with his speech, is a learned fool.
🍃One who finds fault with his elders, even though he has the same faults that he does not see, is a learned fool.
🍃One who instead of praising God only praises men and whatever his eyes see, is a learned fool.
🍃One who has no devotional practice, no detachment, nor does any singing of the praises of God or Guru, and does not practice what he preaches, is a learned fool.
🍃One who does not recognize various pilgrimage and holy places, or the Vedas and other ancient scriptures, and one who is born into a holy family yet does not recognize what is holy himself, is a learned fool.
🍃One, who while listening, constantly analyzes the virtues and defects of the speaker, and becomes jealous about the virtues of others, is a learned fool.
🍃One who is well educated and detached, or who is a great yogi with the Knowledge of Brahman yet indulges in fortune telling, is a learned fool.
🍃One who listens to spiritual explanations day and night yet does not give up undesirable attributes, and who does not know what is in his own best interest, is a learned fool.
🍃One who develops uneasiness in the body and gets irritated when listening to discourses, as well as generally gets irritated with bodily problems, is a learned fool.
🍃One who gets carried away with pride in wealth, and one who ignores the tradition of one's Sadhguru, yet claims the guru’s tradition for himself, is a learned fool.
🍃One who speaks of Self-Knowledge yet behaves selfishly, accumulates money like a miser, and takes advantage of spiritual lifestyle to become wealthy, is a learned fool.
🍃One who interrupts the continuity of the path of devotion, and who creates divisions among people is a learned fool.
🍃One whose family life slips through his hands, who does not know anything of Paramartha, and who hates God and the knowers of Brahman, is a learned fool.
~Sri Samartha Ramdas
•Verses from Dasbodh, Chapter 2, S.C. 10
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ABSOLUTE VIGILANCE
🌿प्रमादो ब्रह्मनिष्ठायां न कर्तव्यः कदाचन ।
प्रमादो मृत्युरित्याह भगवान्ब्रह्मणः सुतः ॥ ३२१ ॥
One should never be careless in one’s steadfastness to Brahman. Bhagavan Sanatkumāra, who is Brahma’s son, has called inadvertence negligence to be death itself.
🌿न प्रमादादनर्थोऽन्यो ज्ञानिनः स्वस्वरूपतः ।
ततो मोहस्ततोऽहंधीस्ततो बन्धस्ततो व्यथा ॥ ३२२ ॥
There is no greater danger for the wise one [Jnāni], than carelessness about his own real nature. From this comes delusion, thence egoism, this is followed by bondage, and then comes misery.
🌿यथापकृष्टं शैवालं क्षणमात्रं न तिष्ठति ।
आवृणोति तथा माया प्राज्ञं वापि पराङ्मुखम् ॥ ३२४ ॥
As moss, even if removed, does not stay away for a moment, but closes up to cover the water again, so also Māyā covers even the wise, if they ever get extrovert with out-turned mind, running after sense pleasures.
🌿लक्ष्यच्युतं चेद्यदि चित्तमीषद्
बहिर्मुखं सन्निपतेत्ततस्ततः ।
प्रमादतः प्रच्युतकेलिकन्दुकः
सोपानपङ्क्तौ पतितो यथा तथा ॥ ३२५ ॥
If the mind ever so slightly strays from the Ideal [Brahman] and becomes outgoing, then it goes down and down, just as a play-ball inadvertently dropped on the staircase bounds down from one step to another.
~Adi Shankaracharya
•Vivekachudamani, Verses 321, 322, 324, 325
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🌿प्रमादो ब्रह्मनिष्ठायां न कर्तव्यः कदाचन ।
प्रमादो मृत्युरित्याह भगवान्ब्रह्मणः सुतः ॥ ३२१ ॥
One should never be careless in one’s steadfastness to Brahman. Bhagavan Sanatkumāra, who is Brahma’s son, has called inadvertence negligence to be death itself.
🌿न प्रमादादनर्थोऽन्यो ज्ञानिनः स्वस्वरूपतः ।
ततो मोहस्ततोऽहंधीस्ततो बन्धस्ततो व्यथा ॥ ३२२ ॥
There is no greater danger for the wise one [Jnāni], than carelessness about his own real nature. From this comes delusion, thence egoism, this is followed by bondage, and then comes misery.
🌿यथापकृष्टं शैवालं क्षणमात्रं न तिष्ठति ।
आवृणोति तथा माया प्राज्ञं वापि पराङ्मुखम् ॥ ३२४ ॥
As moss, even if removed, does not stay away for a moment, but closes up to cover the water again, so also Māyā covers even the wise, if they ever get extrovert with out-turned mind, running after sense pleasures.
🌿लक्ष्यच्युतं चेद्यदि चित्तमीषद्
बहिर्मुखं सन्निपतेत्ततस्ततः ।
प्रमादतः प्रच्युतकेलिकन्दुकः
सोपानपङ्क्तौ पतितो यथा तथा ॥ ३२५ ॥
If the mind ever so slightly strays from the Ideal [Brahman] and becomes outgoing, then it goes down and down, just as a play-ball inadvertently dropped on the staircase bounds down from one step to another.
~Adi Shankaracharya
•Vivekachudamani, Verses 321, 322, 324, 325
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जलदर्पणवत्तेन सर्वं व्याप्तं चराचरम्॥६५॥
In Kāmika Tantra, it's mentioned that the Lord is sarvākṛti, possesses all formations of the world and possesses no formation at all [sarvākṛti and nirākṛti]. If from one point of view you experience Him, you will see that He is sarvākṛti, all formations are His. And, from another point of view. if you perceive Him, you will find that He has no formation at all. [65]
~Excerpt from: Light On Tantra In Kashmir Shaivism : Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka Chapter One
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जलदर्पणवत्तेन सर्वं व्याप्तं चराचरम्॥६५॥
In Kāmika Tantra, it's mentioned that the Lord is sarvākṛti, possesses all formations of the world and possesses no formation at all [sarvākṛti and nirākṛti]. If from one point of view you experience Him, you will see that He is sarvākṛti, all formations are His. And, from another point of view. if you perceive Him, you will find that He has no formation at all. [65]
Scholar: Because all forms are His. He has no forms.Swami Lakshmanjoo: Yes, Jaladarpaṇavattena sarvaṁ vyāptaṁ carācaram, as the whole universe is reflected in water [or as] the whole universe is reflected in a mirror, in the same way, the whole carācara [movable, immovable] universe is reflected in His own nature.~Excerpt from: Light On Tantra In Kashmir Shaivism : Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka Chapter One
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