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Essay name: Shaiva Tantra: A way of Self-awareness

Author: L. N. Sharma
Affiliation: Banaras Hindu University / Department of Philosophy and Religion

This essay studies Shaiva Tantra and Tantric philosophies which have evolved from ancient cultural practices and represents a way of Self-awareness. Saiva Tantra emphasizes the individual's journey to transcendence through inner and external sacrifices, integrating various traditions while aiming for an uncreated, harmonious state.

Chapter 3 - The Shaiva Tantric Mystic

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5 (of 14)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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the sword of intuition( TA, XIII, 171). Intuition gets purified through
meditation ( bhavanaonavita ), yoga, sacrifices and so on. Once the
individual outains the intuitive knowledge, he must get rid of every
sensorial knowledge ( ocular, auditory etc. ), in the same manner as
in daylight one removes a lamp. The one who has obtained intuitive
cognition of the reality, manifests extraordinary powers when in
contact with the material world: the clairaudience, the penetration
of different media oy means of mantra, illusive actions (i.e. the
transmutation into another body HCC, XIII, 174-175 ), the magni-
fication ecc. The one who is fully aware of the twofold consciousness
can periorm, after certain practice, even the highest operations,
namely obscuration and grace. if the master is indifierent to the
propitiation, he will we able to Iree himself and others.
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The reality, the objectivity, does not arise
unchangeably in front of us. It exists in the very cognitive process
most profound part of consciousness, but it changes
with time, space and events. The mystical intuition of Siva is realized
along with particular experiences and it improves throughout life.
man is free when he has succeeded in raising his real thinking and
knowledge. This awarwness can be achieved only through transcendental
intuition, which, when t t appears, makes great changes in man's life.
saiva tantra is the product of transcendental intuition and, at the
a shorter way to achieve this intuition. Such an apparently
paradoxical statement could be understood only because "he (Siva)
same time,
manifests mimbell by his own will this way, as the author of scriptures,

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