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vijnana

विज्ञान vijñāna

Discerning intelligence or understanding. In the Taittiriya Upanishad the vijnanamaya kosha is the sheath of intellect, lying inward of the mind.

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  • The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages

    The Vijñāna Bhairava , a Trika text framed as a chapter of the shadowy Rudrayāmala , is a jewel: a hundred and twelve or so dhāraṇās , centering techniques, each a doorway to the infinite consciousness the trad…

  • The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages

    It is called the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , and it is one of the most extraordinary texts in the whole of Indian religion — a short, luminous work of the Kashmir Shaiva tradition that may be the most practical p…

  • What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy

    The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , a treasured text of the tradition, is essentially a long catalogue of such doorways, more than a hundred meditations on the gaps where consciousness shows itself.

  • Who is Bhairava? Deities

    This is where the classic Kashmiri text belongs, the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , a manual of over a hundred meditations, each one a doorway into that Bhairava-consciousness.

  • Who is Parvati? Deities

    In the Agamas and the Tantras she is the one who asks: the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra opens with the Devi's question, and Shiva's hundred and twelve answers are the scripture.

  • Not This, Not This Treatise

    Within that the vijnanamaya kosha , made of vijnana , understanding or discerning intelligence.

  • The Aitareya Upanishad: the Self that entered through the skull Treatise

    …roll is worth hearing: samjnana , consciousness; ajnana , perception; vijnana , discrimination; prajnana , intelligence; medhas , wisdom; drishti , insight; dhriti , steadfastness; mati , thought; manisha , tho…

  • The Fierce Guardians Treatise

    The greatest text of this tradition, the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra , is framed as the Goddess asking Bhairava — that is, asking ultimate reality in its most intimate voice — how the infinite may be entered, and r…

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