Sri Malini Vijayottara Tantram, Vijnana Bhairava, Sri Svacchanda Tantram, Sri Netra Tantram, Siva Sutra

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Sri Malini Vijayottara Tantram We are pleased to present here English translation of important texts of Kashmir Śaivism that are considered as the foundational works and on some ancient teachers of this school wrote commentaries. These are:

Śrī Mālinīvijayottara Tantra :

It is an important work of Kashmir Šaivism and is a part of Siddhayogiśvari Tantra. In the first Chapter Śiva states as follows:

“Listen to me, O Lady, I am revealing to you the text of the Siddhayogiśvari Tantra which has not been revealed to anyone else until now as Mālinivijayottara Tantra. (13)” The foundation of Abhinavagupta’s Śri Tantrāloka is Mālinivijayottara Tantra. He clearly states this in Chapter 1: “There is nothing here which is not there in the Mālinīvijayottara stated explicitly or indicated suggestively by the God of gods Himself. (17)” “The empire of the Lord extending to ten states of Himself. eighteen those of Rudra and eight of the Vasus are summed up in the Trika Śāstra whose essence lies compressed in the Mālinivijayottara Tantra. (18) “Therefore, herewith we are going to reveal all those items which were left out by those wise scholars who had either opted out of the School or were unable to see, by the permission of our teacher. (19)”

Readers would find here translation of Chapters 1, 2, which deal with introduction and states of human consciousness, namely, waking, dreaming, sound sleep, turiya and turiātita while chapters 12 to 19 and 21-23 are translations of various meditation methods such as on taste, sound, smell, sun, moon, pañca tattvas, etc.

Vijñāna Bhairava :

Vijñāna Bhairava is also an important text of Kashmir Šaivism and is a part of Rudrayāmala Tantra. It contains meditation methods which are 113. Normally it was considered to contain 112 methods but scholars forgot to take into account the last verse of this text which refers to the meditation method on So’ham.

Śri Svacchanda Tantra :

This is the translation of Chapter 7, which deals with prana. Svacchanda Tantra is a colossal work.

Netra Tantra :

This is also another important of this system. Chapters 7 and 8 have been translated that deal with Subtle Yoga and Meditation on the Transcendent. These chapters are interesting from the point of view of Yoga.

Šiva Sūtra :

A text of Kashmir Šaivism dealing with the nature of consciousness from the highest to the individual in three chapters. It is said that this text was revealed to Vasugupta in ninth century. This work is divided into three sections, first dealing with the universal consciousness, the second deals with the nature of matrkā, the third the universal consciousness in the form of limited consciousness, which in reality is nothing but universal consciousness.