emptybill wrote: > After Shankara's Gita commentary, devotion was not > discussed much in advaita literature until Madhusudhana > Saraswati, (15th cent.) who considered it to be a > essential experience even after jivanmukti. > Historians are not exactly sure when the proponents of Shankara's Adwaita went over to tantric worship of the feminine form of the Transcendental Person. However, we do know that they did so. Since the 15th century all the adherents of Shankaracharya are devoted to the worship of the Goddess Tripurasundari, (Lalita). There is a long history of tantric sadhana in Kashmere where apparently Shankara visited and established a form of Shiva-Shakti tantrism.
Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: 7 Sep 2006 16:35:04 -0700 Subject: Auspicious Wisdom http://tinyurl.com/24bamp Shankara composed the Saundaryalahari, in which you will find the sixteen bija mantras used in the worship of Lalita. The Tripura Upanishad and the Saundarya have been commented on by Bhaskaraya. There are numerous expositiuons by Abinavagupta concerning the tantric path. The most recent commentator on the Trika system was Laksmanjoo (see links below for a lucid discussion of his work). Shankara placed the Sri Chakra on the mandir at Sringeri, Jyotir, Puri, and Dwarka, and apparently at Kanchimath as well. On the Sri Chakra are inscribed the bija mantras used in Tantra Sadhana. Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: 3 Feb 2005 22:11:41 -0800 Subject: TM and Tantra Part II http://tinyurl.com/2aw4bf > Among Vaishnava sampradaya's, the Shri Vaishnava's > want union (sa-rupya) while the Gaudiya-s and Madhva-s > want proximity (sa-lokya). Among the Gaudiya-s, the > real goal is living in the state of prema-bhakti, which > is considered the fulfillment of the developmental > process of bhakti. In this POV bhakta-s are defined > as participants - those with a part-share in the > lila-shakti of Bhagavan (the Lord who holds the shares). > Among the Gaudiya-s their great fear is that they will > lose participation in their share from the Lord of > shares. Since they consider themselves to be invested > only with marginal reality tatastha-shakti)their greatest > fear is that they will be annihilated or simply "not be". > So much for total surrender. > Maybe so - it may be very difficult for a bhaka to practice service to the Lord when one is a mere dis-embodied spirit. Serving the Lord by practicing Bhakti Yoga is preferred by bhaktas - they don't care much for being a "jivan-mukti" and by taking short-cuts like the tantric siddhas do in order to reach an enlghtened state. Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: ColdBluICE Date: 22 Sep 2002 19:28:57 -0700 Subject: Re: Shiva-suutra I,7: wittnessing sleep? http://tinyurl.com/yw654q > I would like to see some references if you can find any. > I never could find any direct linkage between MMY's > seven states and topologies of enlightenment in advaita. > His post-turiya states do not accord with the descriptions > of the seven stages in the Laghu Yogavasistha. MMY is > not a scholar (thank the gods) so it only means that > his phenomenology of meditative experience is > descriptive rather than presciptive. > Mandukya Upanishad describes the three consituent phonemes which are identified with the three states of conciousness, deep sleep state, dream state, and the waking state. The Upanishad proposes a fourth state of conciousness which is termed Turiya, the Fourth, that is, the transcendental state. Gaudapada on the phenomenology of consciousness: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:24:00 -0600 Subject: dharmadAtu http://tinyurl.com/362esl > So far I have found no correlation between chakras and > MMY's seven states, probably since chakras are merely > structural elements in some yogic linages and cannot > be generalized to all sadhana. I don't know if MMY ever > met any Nath Yogins and I don't think Swami Lakshman > Joo used any such model. > In my opinion, Guru Dev was following the Nath Siddha path, as well as the path of the Sri Vidya. Guru Dev was a Shakta Tantrist who practiced Hatha Yoga and was an expert in the Adwaita scriptures of Kashmere Saivism. Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: 2 Jan 2005 20:20:54 -0800 Subject: The Supreme Awakening in Kashmere Saivism http://tinyurl.com/23ldmd General references: "Maharishi's Ontology - Seven States": http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/seven_states.htm "The Alchemical Body" by David Gordon White University of Chicago Press, 1996
