Prakasha
प्रकाश prakāśa'Light, shining.' In Kashmir Shaivism, the self-luminous light of consciousness that reveals all things, identified with Shiva; paired with vimarsha, its self-awareness.
Where this term appears
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
Prakasha is the light of awareness, the sheer shining by which anything is manifest at all, the "that there is experience" of experience.
- What is Shakti? Essentials
Otherwise the light, prakasha , even when coloured by an object, would be like a crystal and the other inert things.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
… pole that Abhinavagupta's tradition set against the mere luminosity, prakasha , of the philosophies it competed with.
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
It is svayam-prakasha , self-luminous, the light by which all objects are lit but which is itself never an object, never lit by anything else.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
The Trika of Kashmir reads Shiva as prakasha , the sheer light of consciousness, and Shakti as vimarsha , the self-awareness by which that light knows itself as "I": two faces of one act, and she is no second t…
- The Manuals Treatise
A 186-page work (in the standard Adyar Library edition), with Bhaskararaya’s own commentary Prakasha , walking the Sri Vidya practice at the operational level.
- The Saubhagya-Kadi Line Treatise
A 186-page work (in the standard Adyar Library edition), composed with Bhaskararaya’s own commentary Prakasha .
- The diagram and the coiled power Treatise
… into a world, the same supreme ground the previous chapters named as prakasha and as the silent level of speech.