Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism: Chapter One of Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka by Swami Lakshmanjoo

Author:Swami Lakshmanjoo [Lakshmanjoo, Swami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Universal Shaiva Fellowship
Published: 2017-05-12T05:00:00+00:00

SCHOLAR: Deny.

SWAMIJI: . . . we will disprove, disagree, yukti āgama vigarhitam, because it is against the theory of yukti and against the theory of the śāstras (against the theory of the tricks of masters and against the theory of the śāstras).

SCHOLAR: “Tricks of masters.”

SWAMIJI: Yukti is the tricks of masters, how to get entry–yukti. Yukti means, just a trick how to enter. Don’t you agree with it?

SCHOLAR: Yukti always seems to be used in the sense of logical argument as opposed to scriptural argument.

SWAMIJI: Āgama is that.

SCHOLAR: Scriptural argument.

SWAMIJI: Yes, scriptural argument. Yukti is spiritual argument, and that is a trick (yukti āgama vigarhitam). Malamāyākarmaṇāṁ ca darśayiṣyāmahe, and we will clarify the substance of mala, māyā, and karma (āṇavamala, māyīyamala, and kārmamala) vividly.635

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JOHN: So he doesn’t say here why [the Shaivites] object to that.

SCHOLAR: Later.

JOHN: He says, “Later we’ll explain why.”

SWAMIJI: Later on in the ninth āhnika, the ninth chapter, of the Tāntrāloka.

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