vimarsha

The engine of it all is vimarsha , the self-reflective throb by which consciousness knows itself, the active pole that Abhinavagupta's tradition set against the mere luminosity, prakasha , of the philosophies i…

Vimarsha is awareness's reflective self-knowing, its "I am," the way consciousness knows itself shining rather than reflecting blankly like a dead mirror.

…kadi-jadopamah Rendered plainly: they know reflective self-awareness, vimarsha , to be the very nature of the shining-forth of consciousness.

The Goddess is at once the attributeless absolute and its self-awareness, the vimarśa , the reflective "I" by which the pure light of being knows itself.

…s 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 thing.

In 2019 he founded the Vimarsha Foundation, a registered non-profit based in California.

The Vimarsha Foundation, which Sthaneshwar Timalsina founded in San Diego in 2019, teaches Sarvamnaya , the full Kaula revelation, through the Nepalese Krama system.

… infrastructure); the contemporary scholar-practitioner institutions (Vimarsha Foundation, Tantra Illuminated, the academic Tantric Studies departments at various universities); and the broader devotional infra…