vimarsha
विमर्श vimarśaThe self-aware, reflective power of consciousness by which it knows itself; paired with prakasha, the light of consciousness, in Kashmir Shaiva and Srividya metaphysics.
Where this term appears
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
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…
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
Vimarsha is awareness's reflective self-knowing, its "I am," the way consciousness knows itself shining rather than reflecting blankly like a dead mirror.
- What is Shakti? Essentials
…kadi-jadopamah Rendered plainly: they know reflective self-awareness, vimarsha , to be the very nature of the shining-forth of consciousness.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
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.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
…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.
- The Contemporary Scholar-Practitioner Treatise
Timalsina founded the Vimarsha Foundation as a modern gurukula — a non-profit teaching organisation operating as a contemporary version of the traditional teacher-student residential learning structure.
- The Diaspora And Global Sri Vidya Treatise
The Vimarsha Foundation online courses (Sthaneshwar Timalsina, walked in Chapter 7), the Lakshmanjoo Academy online programs, the Devipuram online teaching platforms, the various contemporary teacher-specific o…
- The Institutional Question Treatise
… infrastructure); the contemporary scholar-practitioner institutions (Vimarsha Foundation, Tantra Illuminated, the academic Tantric Studies departments at various universities); and the broader devotional infra…