Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates 鈥楽handilya Upanishad on OM鈥� of the study on the Shaiva Upanishads in English, comparing them with other texts dealing with the Shiva cult (besides the Agamas and Puranas). The 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲s are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.
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17. 艢膩峁囜笉ilya 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 on OM
Meditating in a secluded place, the fluctuations of the mind are arrested through the right realization of the true nature of the sound which is at the extreme end of the pronounciation of the syllable OM (viz. 础谤诲丑补尘腻迟谤补) and when 厂耻峁辫迟颈 (dreamless) sleeping state is rightly cognized through consciousness, the fluctuations of 笔谤腻峁嘺 are repressed. When the passage at the root of the palace which is like the bell, viz Uvula is dosed by the tongue with effort and when the breath goes up through (the upper hole) then the fluctuations of 笔谤腻峁嘺 are stopped. When the consciousness (samvit) is merged in 笔谤腻峁嘺 and when through practice the 笔谤腻峁嘺 goes through the upper hole into the 诲惫腻诲补艣腻苍迟补 (the twelfth centre) above the palate, then the fluctuations of 辫谤腻峁嘺 are stopped. When the eye of consciousness (viz the spiritual or third eye) becomes calm and clear so as to be able to distinctly see in the transparent 腻办腻艣补 at a distance of twelve digits from the tip of his nose, then the fluctuations of 辫谤腻峁嘺 are stopped.
When the thoughts arising in the mind are bound up in the calm contemplation of the world of 迟腻谤补办补 (star or eye) between one鈥檚 eyebrows and are thus destroyed, then the fluctuations cease.
[...] 艢膩ndilya 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 34
When the knowledge which is of the form of the knowable, which is beneficent and which is untouched by any modification arises in one and is known as Om only and no other, the fluctuations of 辫谤腻峁嘺 cease. By the contemplation for a long time of the 腻办腻艣补 which is in the heart, and by the contemplation of the mind free from 惫腻蝉补苍补蝉, then the fluctuations of 辫谤腻峁嘺 cease. By these methods and various others suggested by one鈥檚 thought and by means of the contact of the many (spiritual) guides, the fluctuations cease.[1]
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[1]:
艢膩ndilya 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 verse 28-35.