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Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra :
Index of 112 Meditation techniques
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Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra
introduction:
Devi
Asks:
O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is this wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes seed?
Who centres the universal wheel?
What is this life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter it fully,
above space and time,
names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!
Now
Shiva replies and describes 112 meditation techniques.
Shiva
replies:
1.
Radiant
One, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After
breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) -
the beneficence.
2.
As
breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves
up to down - through both these turns, realize.
3.
Or,
whenever in-breath and out-breath fuse, at this instant touch
the energy-less, energy-filled center.
4.
Or,
when breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or
all in (down) and stopped - in such universal pause, one's
small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.
5.
Attention
between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form
fill with breath essence to the top of the head and there
shower as light.
6.
When
in worldly activities, keep attention between two
breaths, and so practicing, in a few days be born anew.
7.
With
intangible breath in centre of forehead, as this reaches the
heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and
over death itself.
8.
With
utmost devotion, centre on the two junctions of breath and
know the knower.
9.
Lie
down as dead. Enraged in wrath, stay so. Or stare without
moving an eyelash. Or suck something and become the sucking.
10.
While
being caressed, sweet princess, enter the caress as
everlasting life.
11.
Stop
the doors of the senses when feeling the creeping of an
ant. Then.
12.
When
on a bed or a seat, let yourself become weightless, beyond
mind.
13.
Or,
imagine the five coloured circles of the peacock tail to
be your five senses in illimitable space. Now let their beauty
melt within. Similarly, at any point in space or on the wall -
until the point dissolves. Then your wish for another comes
true.
14.
Place
your whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the lotus
thread, in the centre of your spinal column. In such be
transformed.
15.
Closing
the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space
between your eyes becomes all-inclusive.
16.
Blessed
One, as senses are absorbed in the Heart, reach the center of
the lotus.
17.
Unminding
mind, keep in the middle - until.
18.
Look
lovingly at some object. Do not go to another object. Here in
the middle of the object - the blessing.
19.
Without
support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks.
Suddenly the centring.
20.
In
a moving vehicle, by rhythmically swaying, experience. Or in a
still vehicle, by letting yourself swing in slowing invisible
circles.
21.
Pierce
some part of you nectar filled form with a pin and gently
enter the piercing and attain to the inner purity.
22.
Let
attention be at a place where you are seeing some past
happening, and even your form, having lost its
present characteristics, is transformed.
23.
Feel
an object before you. Feel the absence of all other objects but
this one. Then leaving aside the object-feeling And the
absence-feeling, Realize
24.
When
a mood against someone or for someone arises, Do not
place it on the person in question, But remain centred.
25.
Just
as you have the impulse to do something, Stop.
26.
When
some desire comes, consider it. Then, suddenly, quit it.
27.
Roam
about until exhausted and then, dropping to the ground, in
this dropping be whole.
28.
Suppose
you are gradually being deprived of strength or of
knowledge. At the instant of deprivation, transcend.
29.
Devotion
frees.
30.
Eyes
closed, See your inner being in detail. Thus see your true
nature.
31.
Look
upon a bowl without seeing the sides or the material. In a few
moments become aware.
32.
See
as if for the first time a beauteous person or an ordinary
object.
33.
Simply
by looking into the blue sky beyond the clouds, the serenity.
34.
Listen
while the ultimate mystical teaching is imparted. Eyes
still, without blinking, at once, become absolutely free.
35.
At
the edge of a deep well look steadily into its depths
until – the wondrousness.
36.
Look
upon some object, then slowly withdraw your sight from it,
then slowly withdraw your thought from it. Then.
37.
Devi,
imagine Sanskrit letters in these Honey filled foci of
awareness. First as letters, then more subtly as sounds, then
as most subtle feeling. Then, leaving them aside, be free.
38.
Bathe
in the centre of sound, As in the continuous sound of a
waterfall. Or, by putting the fingers in the ears, hear the
sound of sounds.
39.
Intone
a sound, as AUM... Slowly, as sound enters soundfulness, So do
you.
40.
In
the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound of any
letter, Awake.
41.
While
listening to stringed instruments, Hear their composite
central sound; Thus omnipresence.
42.
Intone
a sound audibly, Then less and less audibly as feeling deepens
into this silent harmony.
43.
With
mouth slightly open, Keep mind in the middle of the tongue.
Or, as breath comes silently in, Feel the sound ‘HH’.
44.
Centre
on the sound ‘AUM’ Without any ‘A’ or ‘M’.
45.
Silently
intone a word ending in ‘AH’. Then in the ‘HH’,
Effortlessly, the spontaneity.
46.
Stopping
ears by pressing and the rectum by contracting, enter the
sound.
47.
Enter
the sound of your name and, through this sound, All sounds.
48.
At
the start of sexual union Keep attentive on the fire in the
beginning, and so continuing, avoid the embers in the end.
49.
When
in such embrace your senses are shaken as leaves, enter
this shaking.
50.
Even
remembering union, without the embrace, Transformation.
51.
On
joyously seeing a long-absent friend, permeate this joy.
52.
When
eating or drinking, Become the taste of food or drink, and be
filled.
53.
O
lotus eyed one, Sweet of touch, when singing, seeing, tasting,
be aware you are and discover the Everliving.
54.
Wherever
satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualise this.
55.
At
the point of sleep, when the sleep has not yet come and the
external wakefulness vanishes, At this point the Being is
revealed.
56.
Illusions
deceive, colours circumscribe, even divisible are indivisible.
57.
In
moods of extreme desire be undisturbed.
58.
This
so-called universe appears as a juggling, A picture show. To
be happy, look upon it so.
59.
O
Beloved, put attention neither on pleasure nor on pain, but
between these.
60.
Objects
and desires exist in me as in others. So accepting, let them
be transformed.
61.
As
waves come with water and flames with fire, So the Universal
waves with us.
62.
Wherever
your mind is wandering, internally or externally, At this very
place, this.
63.
When
vividly aware through some particular sense, keep in the
awareness.
64.
At
the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a
chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the
beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly
aware.
65.
The
purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. In reality,
know nothing as pure or impure.
66.
Be
the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honour and
dishonour.
67.
Here
is the sphere of change, change, change. Through change
consume change.
68.
As
a hen mothers her chicks, mother particular knowings,
particular doings, in reality
69.
Since,
in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are
only for those terrified with the universe. This universe is a
reflection of minds. As you see many suns in water from one
sun, so see bondage and liberation.
70.
Consider
your essence as light rays from centre to centre up the
vertebrae, and so rises “livingness” in you.
71.
Or
in the spaces between, feel this as lightning.
72.
Feel
the cosmos as a translucent ever-living presence.
73.
In
summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear, enter such
clarity.
74.
Shakti,
see all space as if already absorbed in your own head in the
brilliance.
75.
Waking,
sleeping, dreaming, know you as light.
76.
In
rain during a black night, enter that blackness as the form of
forms.
77.
When
a moonless rainy night is not present, close your eyes, see
blackness. So, faults disappear forever.
78.
Whenever
your attention alights, at this very point, experience.
79.
Focus
on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the
body burns to ashes but not you.
80.
Meditate
On the make believe world as burning to ashes, and become
being above human.
81.
As,
subjectively, letters flow into words and words into
sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and
worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our
being.
82.
Feel:
my thought, I-ness, internal organs – me.
83.
Before
desire and before knowing, how can I say I am? Consider.
Dissolve in the beauty.
84.
Toss
attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere. One who
is everywhere is joyous.
85.
Thinking
no thing will limited-self unlimit.
86.
Suppose
you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping,
beyond not being – you.
87.
I
am existing. This is mine. This is this. O, beloved, even in
such know illimitably.
88.
Each
thing is perceived through knowing. The self shines in space
through knowing. Perceive one being as knower and known.
89.
Beloved,
at this moment, let mind, knowing, breath, form, Be included.
90.
Touching
eyeballs as a feather, Lightness between them opens into the
heart and there permeates the cosmos.
91.
Kind
Devi, enter etheric presence Pervading far above and below
your form.
92.
Put
mind stuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below and in
your heart.
93.
Consider
any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious.
94.
Feel
your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with cosmic
essence.
95.
Feel
the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and
assuming delicate configurations.
96.
Abide
in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills,
habitations. Thence comes the end of mind pressures.
97.
Consider
the plenum to be your own body of bliss.
98.
In
any easy position gradually pervade an area between the
armpits into great peace.
99.
Feel
yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.
100.
The
appreciation of objects and subjects is the same for an
enlightened as for an unenlightened person. The former has one
greatness: He remains in the subjective mood, not lost in
things.
101.
Believe
omniscient, omnipotent, pervading.
102.
Imagine
spirit simultaneously within and around you until the entire
universe spiritualises.
103.
With
your entire consciousness in the very start of desire, of
knowing, know.
104.
O
Shakti, each particular perception is limited, disappearing in
omnipotence.
105.
In
truth forms are inseparate. Inseparate are omnipresent being
and your own form. Realize each as made of this consciousness.
106.
Feel
the consciousness of each person as your own consciousness.
So, leaving aside concern for your self, become each being.
107.
This
consciousness exists as each being, and nothing else exists.
108.
This
consciousness is the spirit of guidance of each one. Be this
one.
109.
Suppose
your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin –
empty.
110.
Gracious
One, play. The universe is an empty shell wherein your mind
frolics infinitely.
111.
Sweet
heartened One, meditate on knowing and not-knowing, existing
and non-existing. Then leave both aside that you may be.
112.
Enter
space, support less, eternal, still. |
