The Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra by Swami Lakshmanjoo

Author:Swami Lakshmanjoo [Lakshmanjoo, Swami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Universal Shaiva Fellowship
Published: 2015-07-29T18:30:00+00:00

evameva durniśāyāṁ

kṛṣṇapakṣāgame ciram /

taimiraṁ bhāvayan rūpaṁ

bhairavaṁ rūpameṣyati // 87 //

Sometimes you see there is durniśā (durniśā means, that night when it is raining tremendously). And that night must not be with the moon. Kṛṣṇa pakṣāgame, it must be a dark night without a moon, without moonlight, because there is some impression of moonlight also in those clouds when there is a moon on that rainy night. When there is no moon, then it is absolutely dark. Evameva, in this way, durniśāyām, on a rainy night, kṛṣṇa pakṣāgame, and in kṛṣṇa pakṣa (kṛṣṇa pakṣa means, the dark fortnight), ciraṁ taimiraṁ bhāvayan rūpam, and this rain must continue for hours, and–what you have to do?–you open your eyes in that darkness. Put off all your lights in the room, open the windows, and see outside with the eyes wide open. Tamiraṁ bhāvayan rūpam, then you must think that this whole atmosphere is full of the taimira rūpa308 of Bhairava [and that] it is all Bhairava dancing outside. [Then] bhairavaṁ vapur āpnuyāt, one enters in the state of Bhairava, [the yogi] becomes one with Bhairava.

DEVOTEE: Is it necessary that there should be rain?

SWAMIJI: There should be rain309 because the continuity of that sound of rain, rainfall, will carry you there swiftly. When there is no rainfall, then there will be other sounds also to interfere with your meditation, your contemplation. Your meditation will be carried by the continuous sound of that rainfall.

This is śāktopāya. This is not śāmbhavopāya.

DEVOTEE: If a yogi was to meditate solely upon the absolute blackness in his room, if he were to go to Sonamarg310, somewhere high . . . ?

SWAMIJI: That is also. That can be.

DEVOTEE: But if there is no impression, just darkness, is that of śāmbhavopāya? If there is just void, just darkness, and there is no sound, there is nothing, and he is just aware of that voidness?

SWAMIJI: Then you will be situated in śāmbhavopāya.

DEVOTEE: It’s [śāktopāya] because of rain and that sound?

SWAMIJI: Yes, because you have to take the support of that sound. There you are taking the support of sound.311 Śāmbhavopāya is soundless.

DEVOTEE: No support?

SWAMIJI: No, there is no support.

Dhāraṇā 63

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