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SMARTAS

Smarta (followers of the smirti (recollected literature of the veda)

Vedas (a concept you wave in the air: a talesmant of identity)

o not something you cite

Everything that is NOT Vedas, but belongs to that traditions =

SMIRTI

o All godds, goddesses, Ramayana, everything that is NOT

tantra

Understanding of Gods that offer 5 vantage points SMARTAS

VAIDICAS

Those who follow the Vedas

o

Cultural identityo Legal and social system that substantiates cast.

VEDAS

Category of identity

Holding place of intellectually identity

TANTRICA

Category less frequently used (as associated with reprehensible,

morally suspect , intellectually bankrupt activities)

Usage of the word tantric

o Apa never used the word for yearsso as not to associate it

with

India holding both extremes

o Created Karma Sutra, yet socially repressed

o As wrong as it could be, and as right as it could be.

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Emergent Vaidica Anti-Tantric traditions is in response to

IDENTITY

Categories in Tantra

Vaidicaso Paragons of society, also composing and presenting the

Tantras

Relationship between Vaidica Identity (Apa) and Tantric practices

o 1) cultural public religion, and

o 2) private spirituality

o Its possible to live (in Authenticity) in both forms of the self.

The goal is not to find the one self in all forms we

assume, (not who am I really in all those forms), but

that the same self seeks out different froms.

The only way the singular identity can experience

itself is to become more forms.

o The universe seeks out diversity

Nature isnt looking to conform, but for heterogeneity

Universe is choosing to diversify to experience itself

o Stepping into current of Grace

How is the one self achieving itself in many faces.

8th, 9th, 10th Century Kaishmiri Shavists

All great writers born as priests, (Brahmans) and accounted for all

phases of human life with rituals. They have a plan

o Stong practices of cultural and social rules, deeply ortho-

praxic (correct practice) culture gave rise to the Tantricas

o Correct speech

Tantric life = could remain private.

o Spirit of practice is self- incluvist. It invites, but does not

expect that people come.

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o Has a natural privacy about it (can be misunderstood as

exclusive)

o Western We have a message and we are going to tell you

o Inclucation is like self imposition

o

FREEDOM

Problem with the world is not that yourre free, its that everyone

else in the world is free! Apa

PRIVACY VS. SECRECY

Dignity of privacy

o The way information is transmitted in

Secrecy the way the universe works

o The principal of the universe, the way the universe reveals

and conceals itself. The solidity of the floor hides its quantam

nature, letting us appreciate its beauty

Intimacy is the way in which freedom gives expression to choices.

Saying yes to some and no to othersfreedom expresses itself in how you

choose to bind. The goal of this tradition is not freedom (we are already

free) the goal of this tradition is bondage (what do you bind yourself to

because you are completely free?)

Freedom from EGO, DESIRE, BONDAGE, and ILLUSION

The usual ways traditions express goals

Ahambhava

The experience of self

The experience of wonder

In non-trantric traditions, suggests egoism. (locating your identity

as a distinct individual and failing to identify with something larger

than yourself.

o You have ego, causes desire, causes bondage, attachment,

creates misconceptions illusions, you are captured by these

illusions, goal of yoga is liberate yourself from this.

Tantric tradition

o Problematic (ego->bondage) is not problem to tantric, but

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o Immortal has not just chosen any form, the immortal has

chosen YOUR form! Chosen to take your form, as ever

greater particularitythe self is only in some-one.

o Never lay out a path you cant follow

o Maybe perfection isnt illusory, but here in thiso If you think you can act without caring about the resultyou

are mistaken, HOW YOU REACT to the result, that is what

matters.

o How could you act if you didnt desire something!

o Krishnas objection to Arjuna is that he has forgotten who he

is

o DESIRE

Is not an affectation of the ego, but how the universe

experiences itself.

Is why the universe is.

The desire that is immortal exists in all times.

Some desires all temporary (breakfast, lunch)

Not an affectation of mortality, but desire is

Mortality binds itself because it can

o Shiva Sutra

Knowledge is bondage and bondage is a good thing.

If it not expressing its freedimo in the cognescence ofchoices.

o Without bondage, life is less sweet, savory. Desire, without

bondage will lack intimacy. It will be free, but will not have

expressed itself in choice.

o

Maya

o If you dont life in the Maya you create, the world will create

one for you.

Creating an edifice so that people can connect with your self.

Therefore creating your maya

Tantricas

o If ego desires are the terms of life, get with it and create a

yoga you can achieve.

Terms of embodiment

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Are a blessing, not a curse.

EMBODYMENT IS A BLESSING

We have more access to the experience of our freedom

Newton

Everything has abn -0i

POWER

The reasonw

Frenjjj=

Shoppingnot an experience of getting, but one of creating possibility,

of expression.

..The same beings that emerged from the Vaidic culture

What is at stake is empowering ourselves as the divine has offered us

experience.

Expressed in old tradition by saying: human opportunity has fiveessential avenues,

o Five gateways, principle currents of grace.

o Each is alive, a vector, a category,

o Five kinds of experience five shapes in which the divine is

choosing

o Five different ways to approach the same source,

That from when=ce eveythiccannn

o Five ways to explore

Expressed as five principal deities

SMIRTY

o Vaidikas sho formulate themselves

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Standard Smarta gods

1) Surya; Sun

2) Ganapati; Ganesha

3) Vishno

4) Shiva 5) Devi

Iyengars

Not smartas, but vaishnava

All characters are related to vishnu

Vaideka tradition

5 categories

Vishnu sits in the middle

o Stands for dharma

o Be expansive for Vishnu

REVOLUTION

Vaidikas see these as exterior, Tantricas see is as interiorliterally

the currents of grace. With depth and quality.o They will physically be in the body, the states of

consciousness,

o Five categories become leverage (ways of empowering the

exp. Of the self in three essential forms:

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Body, Heart, Mind. (Five in each)

Last category (Devi) will be separated into two Kali Kula

and Sri Kula

Sapta Maitrica

These experiential Worlds, are simply facets of the jewel of the self.

And we can access in two different ways:

SAHAJA - vidya

o (born at once, spontaneous),

o Everybodys got them

o But they dont have: name, visionary identity

o Spontaneous, natural, innate, intrinsic

Devata Bahavana

o Mirroring back this information in your own light. Become

mirrors of the self.

o Takes that which was just an experiential reality, and you get

it mirrored back to you as the divine.

o Mirror

You can see something about reality that is not

otherwise accessible to you you.

By mirroring it back to you, you can see things

that otherwise, you can not see. You can shape it back to your self

o Reflect back throught the lense of your own self.

o Yantras are like graphs.

o When reality mirrors back your own life

o (images, gods, yantras, mantras, mudras)

o Infinite formless is choosing form

o Power in this tradition is access

Like when you are teaching, you recreate the

experience or create more or different of experiences

for students. This power comes from being able to se

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Shastra-bahavana

o The recipe, the insight

Example: Having curry for dinnr.

Just having it, sahaja Here are all the spices, devata

You are able to make it, the recipe, shastra

the one who enjoys, the triatic is the heroic lord

the ways in which when we allow devata (the world to reflect back

on ourselves, the heart expands and grows.) Literally tap into

experiences into others are having.

Pashu (Breath)

Key to access = Prana (breath)=

o When you become Siddha, you dont stop becoming Pashi

o Access to the heart (vira)

Vira (Heros of heart)

Key = access to the states of consciousness

Waking, dreaming and dreamlessness

How deeply do you experience your inner heart?

Siddha bhavana Key= Pramana (Means of valid understanding)

Pramanas (Three of them; how we deeply know)

o 1) Direct experience, deepening appreciation of the senses

o 2) Indirect experience (anumana)

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o 3) What has comes to you, the gift of that deep trusting

others, valid testimony. Deep abiding trust in things that are

true. Received knowledge. The point of progress, evolution

Siddha has the deepest experience (so true they are no longer

yours, except that they are so true, they ARE yours)

LIGHT / SHHAKTI/ ONENESS BECOMES MANYNESS

That energy, light, source = DIV, or DIVYA

o The shakti itself

Shaktas say:

Once Shiva and Shakti explode, they are going to muscularly

particularize, fuse into infinite plurality and diversity.

World is going to consolidate, gather around itself, keep diversifying

into further forms.

DIVYA -> DEVYA

o Light becomes a god

KULA

Principal of Kula invoked

All form is a Kula because stuff is just company

Kula = the way energy chooses to create relationship

You dont see light as light, you see light as its reflection back thought

the lens of consciousness.

The universe does us backward, shiva gets organic, and the universe

gets muscular, but not as oneness, but as diversity.

Shakti (energy)

Diffuse reality of explosion of consciousness (DIVYA)

Constantly reforms, chooses to become (DEVYA)

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How you experience yourself in the world as divine (

Universe is consciousness because we are the evidence of that

creation. We could not have been created out of nothing (that which)

We arent made of stuff that the world isnt made of--- we are just

made of the right stuff to gather awareness of itself.

DIGRESSION:

If you want God to be that which MADE reality, but ISNt it = DUALISM

Agency of divine stands outside of creation

St. Augustin, Creation from nothing so that it preserves real

dualism, and so that the creator does whatever it wants so that the

creator can meddle.

Creation from nothing becomes the guarantee of miracles,

Things that dont happen, but do. Or Things that happen that

dont happen.

You need a cod that is other to create impossible things.

Tantricas say.

god is what is possible god does what is possible, tantrics want to take

Inclusion is a way we expand the boundaries of what is possible.

Example: one of the meanings of daivya

Occlusion is leaving out the impossible.

Nothing matters / everything matters / argument about FATE

DESTINY,

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Everything you do matters.

To get to the core of the self, you must acess the form the self has

taken. To find that immortalwe have to go to the depths of mortal desire.

The experience of your physical desire - is called apegsha (truest heart-feltdesire)

Self awareness

Method to stay aware through all states of consciousness.

WHO IS THE I IN ALL YOUR EXPERIENCES

Apegsha

The desire of the self to experience itself

Five Deities are going to appear in our bodies.

Five ways of deepening access to ourselves

KEY TO TANTRAS

The path of empowering yourself as a form of divine who has chosen

to become you,

How do you access this? Thorugh Physical being, sublime

WHO ARE THE GODS?

Reflections of our selves

Body

o Five breathes

In the minda

o Icha, Yana, kriya, manefestation, bliss

In the Shastras (

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Every Tantric Yoga taught from the particular to the general.

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Teachings are never some thingbut the presence of the infinite form

of some one

Alive, infinite consciousness

Universe is mysterious enough, it doesnt require some mystery

o Doesnt require the existence of something that is not it(the universe.

We all want something that isnt us to tell us what to do

STOP LOOKING FOR THE ANSWER, that is other than you

STOP looking for something to come out of the sky

Because they take your eyes off the point.

Tatvas

Categories of metaphysical reality.

Structural outline, the bones of the body that tell you everything

and nothing (because you dont know anything about someone

from the bones, but you know everything from that person.

TAT (that) VA (suffix ness), Tatva = Thatness

Therefore, subject experiences itself as the object.

o What am I? That. I am the thatnessJUST THAT.

Rajanica

Not a goal, but a process of requiring virtuositygetting adept. About going deeply into the potential of your own consciousness.

Key= to access consiousness, as that it is literally a form of power.

Rajinica practice

o Simple three-fold process

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Everything inside you that you need is there. Principle of innate

sufficiency. The gift of grace. Grace given freely. As it is a gift, you dont

have to earn it.

RANT: Philosophies that set us up to strive to achieve something

that is not accessible. Looks like it inspires you, but really itbeliegers youthen you dont have to do the work, as you wait for

the big kaboom.

Innate because perfection is not remoteits already there.

The further you go into the cave of the heart, the more willingly you

step into the darkness of the self, the safer you are, fear is standing

at the precipice of darknessstanding on the outside looking in

there is nothing to fear.

The more deeply you step into the darkness, the more sweetly she

holds younothing to fear about your embodiment and about the

cave of the heart. You must be literally con-fidence with

confidence.

o Step into it= love yourself, give your sefl the ability

confidence to help yourself. If you have an issue recognize it.

o Point is to get real

o Darkness is a place to get into.

o Going into the light the same as going into the darkness

because in both cases you cant see where you are going. Still the first principal= SRI

o Abundant, affirming, filled with real value, the more deeply

you step into yourself

o Lets just make moreand varieties.

Ben and Jerrys principal.

o Not nihilistic because you are connected.

o Problem with a dualistic god is that You cant get there from

here.

o You are not lacking, everything you need you have.

o Whether you turn to darkness or the sun, you have what you

need.

o Everyone has the adhikara they need for their own perfection.

Not a question of whether you have the ability, but do you

have the courage of your own desire!

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o Key to Tantric Yoga = not moving from ego to atman, but

from I to I, Aham to Aham. Your essence never departs from

yourself. Atma has taken the form of Aham.

o What is the courage of your desire? What desire do you have

for the way you experience yourself.o You will always have the integrity of your eown experience

Diversifying (self becomes more self)

Always appearing as someone.

A teacher , Yogi, Guru asking you to look for yourself, is

like a snype hunt.

o Mariposa Principal

That which you seek you have always been

o Life is the company you keep

the first you need to figure out how to keep is your

own.

o You become your desiresyou become what you seek. Thats

why it is so critical to care what you are seeking. You will

receive what you ask fore--- the whole path is what are you

asking for.

i.e. the popes funeral, he went to Jesus, because that

is where he thought he was

o Look to your experiences, and the experience you desireo Everyones Siddha (sublime self) is guaranteed.

Everyones deep sleeping self is already in this room.

Just like deep sleep follows the waking self, the Siddha

follows the ego

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Deep

Sleep

Waking

self

Conversation

o You dont argue with your enemies.

o

we dont argue with others to convert them / change theirminds, we talk to others to find out what we think.

We are not interested in conversionwe are interested

in conversation.

o Upaya = skill

o I am you, I am like you, I am noting but you.

o Or its a conversation (rooted in grace) or its a transaction

(figure out what currency people are using.)

o Anusara Complement SARA (it means essence AND current)

Paradox,

Complement = ANUMATI (the thing you posess)

If anusara means grace, anumati means effort.

conviction

o Sanscrit lesson

Man, mant (possessive)

-vant, mant (strong ending

-van, man (weak ending)

Transacting versus conversingo Always assume you are transacting, because then you are

figuring out what that persons currency is and speaking from

a place where you are trying to understand that person first.

You can have an internal conversation at the same time.

o Whether transacting or conversing, the world reflects back to

you thorugh your own consciousness.

o * the more deeply youve invested in your self, the more

profoundly you understand others.

o The depth of your own self reflection, is the depth of your

penetration in the world.

o Seeing more in the world UNMILANA (looking outside, seeing

the light.)

Vimarsha Shakti (The power of reflection)

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The world (like a mirror) will only show you outside,

what you see inside. The only way to see more light is

by looking into the darkness (this is why it is good to

meditate)

o The depth of our own self appreciation is the capacity ofappreciating others.

May all your pie be humble.

Point 2: Vimarsha

Ironic paradox.

In the heart,

In th sublime selfbeing able to move to move wherever

Prativha (imagination)

o The capacity of consciousness to imagine. To throw itself

back unto itself that are truly unknown. Looking at the

darkest part of the dark sky and realizing there billions of

stars beyond what your eyes can see.

o Sublime reflection (having the capacity to see things you are

not seeing.)

Zen saying drinking tea from an empty cup.

o The sublime selfs capacity to see literally as the sublime

sees.

Innate sufficiency about the body. What were you given as an

embodied being. Everyone was born sufficiently pashu. People with

disabilities, deficient in pashu, abundant in devata, siddha qualities

Stages of yoga

1) mining yourself (pashu)

2) devata (gods appear) like a diamond cutter. You have tools to

take the ore of your inner being and refine it, shape it. (Vira)

3) Vishastra (sublime understanding) a refinement, like the jewler

that says, this one is done right.

1) how to grow grapes

2) how to make wine

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3) how to taste whats in the wine

o wine growers call wine tasters to find out about themselves.

o Pattern

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o

o Perfection of the self, is in the perfection of your own gifts.

Stage 2 devatas Stage 3 shastras, the divine point, making the interpretation

That path of Tantra is the first of six stages:

1) YANA (knowledge, the gift)

those three stages, universal cross cultural human embodied

experience that is embodied consiousness, that reflects itself back

on itself in the devatas, the sublime ability to re-reflecti itself back

again, a re-interpretation, understanding.

2) AISHVARYA (belonging to ishwara)

Making the choice to become sovereign rather than subject

Empowered not victimized.

Free to accept the gift.

Confidence in the self

3) Shakti

dealing with forms of energies, power

4) Bala (strength)

this is the turning point. Innate empowered

Dealing with power, dealing with yourself.

The capacity to be themselves, and the capacity to change into

other things.

Forms of Grace.

Litterally Anysara

5) Virya

virility, vitality, energizing experience,

courage, now hold on.

Everybody who gets on the roller coaster gets off it, its all ok.

6) Tejas

Brilliance, self - illumination

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Six Phases of Yoga

Six Stages of

the TantraPath

Yana Knowledge,

the gift,inquiry intoourselves

Aishvaya Choosing the

inquiry

Shakti When you

Bala

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Yana The gift of

knowledge

Ishvarya

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Maya

Without it, it would be like a body without bones.

Kula

o Any energy that causes muscular, drawing together

o Nature of shakti to create experience of herself

o It doesnt take anything else other than Kula to create Shakti

o The presence creates the gravity.

Maya is nothing more than they way Shakti is cohering, condensing

Tantra

o You dont want that Maya to be formed for you, but you participate in

creating it

Goal: Co-participatory

o Delusion: you have no control, you have all control (occlusion)

o Inclusion: the divine is never leaving you out, and never inviting you to do

more than your share.

We study the past to make a better future.

Power of maya does not divide consciousness

o Even though we are making it up, we know it is an illusion.

o Vedanta strategy:

Names and forms are cloaking reality. (artichoke)

You think the birds and the trees are real but they are illusory, but

they are nothing but maya.

Maya divides consciousness because it is separating you from the

real experience that it is all one.

o Buddhist:

The more cloak you remove, the more you realize (onion)

o Tantric:

If consciousness were subject to division, it would not be

consciousness.

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Even if your creating an illusion,

We arent separated by what we think of ourselves, we are created

John Nash

Healed by his own freedom to

Growth, division of the self

Heading toward your core

o Divides the self.

SAMVEDANA

Process of division expands the middle.

The self is going to appear in whatever form you seek.

Penetration

Participation in the process which is already going onthe deepning of the

recognition of the self,

Every night an opportunity to splinter off into experience

Second process:

o Seek whatever suits you

o Body, heart, mind must turn into its authentic desire.

We need to learn to want what we really want.

One should center ones attention wherever brings the mind (body

mind and heart) find satisfaction, for it is there that the inherent

nature of supreme bliss arises

So that you are pursuing what ever you desire, pursuing

yourself.

As a practice, he is telling us, the AHAM (the I that gets deeper by

dividing itself into own form) The self grows best out of your own

preferences.

Dont abnegate your desire! Just dont what you love!

Whats the big deal

Tantra: Virtuosity in being your self

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Consciousness is a boat

The more you participate, the better it sails.

Two strategies:

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More, valuable, affirming, GROW, fill themind with things, let in the diversity

NIMILA Cant haveone without

the other.The mind

most drivenis also the

mind most

Advances Cool off, calm down, slow down, relax,stop being so busy,

Expand the middle, diversifying Cool off the mind to let the mind come

in

Fill you mind with something worthwhile

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emptySri Strategy: abundance, valueaffirmation

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The core of the practice is to expand the middle. To expand the middle, you have to

diversity, even as you empty.

All you have to do is to step into the current ANUSARA, to participate in this

SPANDA.

Proof: how bodies love a rhythm.

When you feel restless, broken up, eat on schedule. Treat the bodys rhythms

with respect, then the cycles of consciousness will follow.

Death as a division from life is just another way of experiencing consciousness. But

who is experiencing it?

The sublime self.

Its not that all paths lead to the same points, its that every point leads to every

path

o Drawing into the focal point, the center, the heart, you are at the pont

from which all possibilities are viable.

o

Tantric path is not to know something, but to know you know it.

To expand the boundaries, you expand the middle. Growth of consciousness is

embryonic, it that it grows from the center.

Consciousness is like a Kirtan

When you sing, the universe sings back. Thats why you have to be careful what you

sing.

Butyou have to give it enough space to sing back Thats why you have to

You think you have to sing, but really you have to listen.

When you sing out, and you get a response, its really you!

Three kinds of fractures / disjointed ness:

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Discontinuity Separateness Alienation

You dont know there is a

relationship between things.You dont see the connection

between things.

When you think that the

echo you get isnt you! Youthink of the relationship

without understanding itsmutuality. No sight of

causality.

When you think there is no

relationship at all. You thinkthey are two different things.

Only happens because there

is a deep intrinsic nature.You could only see each

other as different, if we are

ultimately the same.

Ultimately leads to

NARCICISM.

Alienation:

When we use a label to tell othersit says more about us, then about them.

To treat another as an object, is to fold only upon yourself--

NARCISISM

o Which is why you cant entertain that you may be wrong.

o Thinking everything is that you like.

Having Gurutwa

Having the presence to stay with yourself.

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Kula

Every thought, idea is a Kula

Singularity is always in concert with multiplicity (nothing exists alone)

Point 1: Nothing exists in isolation.

Every reduction produces another phase

Buddhists: That shows you there is nothing there

Tantrics: That shows you there is always more there

i.e. Don Sanderson writes about Tibetan Tantric Tzhogen: how it was lifted from

Kashmiri Shaivists

o Comparing Vajrayana (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th century) Buddhism with Kashmiri

Shaivists

Pahsame Tam (show me the money)

SAMELA

Community mantra (comes in pairs b/c the self always deepens itself) purpose

of embodiment is relationship.

Eshewing seperateness

Universe wants to heal (part of sri principal)

Wants to say YES! to the universe

Bodies want to feel co

Problematics: discontinuity, seperateness, alianation impelled by an energy of

auspiciousness, not impelled by evil..

Freedom gives you the option to benign neglect

o Like we dont do anything about dust bunnies, we are free and because

we dont CHOOSE to clean, we get dust bunnies.

Evidence for benign neglect

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o Body wants to get it right.

o i.e. asana: if you consistently realign, the body

Affirming force that the universe wants to connect, diversify

Nature moves toward that affirmation

What about entropy?

Because we dont engage.

She made you so free you can ignore her

o Otherwise, yoga would be a model of command, compliance if you

comply, you will reap the rewards BEWARE OF THIS!

What about shock?

Body backs off because it wants to fix itself

Its not that you dont think its not going to click again, its that we dont heal

enough space to hear the voice.

Stamhi sandeha padeshu vastushu

For those who are authentic in their own essance in matters

One must turn towareds (make the initiative engage) the inner voice

The self is the inner agent, the real doer (we are not vedantans)

We must turn to our own inner agency to find pramana,

Isnt it interesting that people dont ask for what what they could give?

Aspire for the highest

Ask for greatness

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If you aim deeper and higher and greater you will get that

If you ask for too little, it is a failure to acknowledge your own worth. Irascible

Giving someone a break (compassion) is like giving someone space between the

breaths

Giving them a space to hold a deeper paradox

Humility without confidence is folley

Confidence without humility is insufferable.

Vira

Everyday something wonderful can be experienced,

Blessing

Heroic state

Sublime self

This way of connecting is connecting so deeply,

A spiritual flowering

Stages ofconnection

Creaturely-ness

Herioic state inwhich you

engage theworld.

Astonishingbeauty.

Blessing.

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Engages deeply.

Spiritual fluency,

virtuiosicy, Makesomething hard

look easy.

Siddhasawarenessoptimalizes your

gift. The person

who optimizesthe grace they

have been given.

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The question is not if you have enough grace, it is do you use the grace you have.

Kula principal

We have all been given the same grace

I dont have to know how to do30 things

The deeper the relationship the more the benefit, the greater the leverage.

Universe always wants us to connect to affirm

The universe has recognized us. We are going to return the favor, acknowlegeing

that recognition that the universe has chosen to become you

The universe has attained or offered something

Affirmed, chosen something, deliberately expressed its joy in becoming

If reincarnation, where are all the new people coming from?

A: The unverse is expanding, is always creating more of itse sself. The unverse

Hiranya (Golden, from the sun) Garbha (womb)

Old term for the universe expanding. Not reducing to less atmaits expanding.

Vedanta (everything is reducing to one self) vs. universe

The truth is like the self, it is growing, expanding. Its not that you

Trap of falling into DOGMA

Its on the reductive process to find an answer, then there is nothing

more to do. You get it, then its done. Now what

Dogma makes YOGA no longer a process, when its like a thing

Strat 2:

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Truth is like the self, it is ever increasing.

Knowledge is ever expandingscientific query

Perfect

Doesnt mean finished, it means expansive (PURNA: fullness) Because if it were finished

Ash

Distillation, moving toward whiteness (seminal fluid, SOMA : elixer,

of moon)

You can do this in your body.

o Anusara principal

o

Spanda

It can pulse at any rate.

it can mutate at any moment.

Gould

o Not a steady curve, but

I.E. Bush administration;

Reductive, getting closer and closer to what is true

o DOGMA : this is the one thing that is trueo The problem is that it is no longer true.

Endevoring in the process of recognition (VIMARSA)

Our body, consiousness, always evaluating reevaluating how to

improve, expand, readjust

Core of awareness (Siddha consiousness) accelerates that process.

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Panca Ayatana Devatana 30/06/2005 14:05:00

PAD are there to

Stage 1: Universe is engaged in expanding itself

Saying I, AHAM

We are the evidence that

We are not mortals chasing the immortals, we are

We are SIDDHI, what the universe has chosen to become

o What the universe has done, is made Siddhi as you. To see

what the universe wanted to accomplish, look in the mirror.

The gift of human birth is the capacity to experience freedom.

We are nothing else except more free.

The last is the first What the universe wants form you, is what its already done, chosen

to express a profound sense of freedom in the peculiarity,

preferance, and particularity that is you.

THIS is the revelation of the 8th century Shiva sutras

o Upside down, revolutionary as the Atman is infinitely

expressing itself as Aham

o Not trying to rid of the multiplicity to find the oneness, to

____ the multiplicity.

o Universe is Siddhithe one is ever choosing to expand itself

as you.

o Perfection is deliberately unfinished (a revolution in Yoga)

Therefore, enlightenment is not something you get

o Good tantra is Meli Ora (Ever better)

Perfection has decided to become curiously imperfect

What makes the space between the breath, the

paradox of two things possible, because you are

freeeeeeeo

First inherent reality, is the universe assuming

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Instead of thinking:

I do yoga to move toward perfection, I do yoga moving FROM my

perfection

o Now life is play, to enjoyo Acting from a deeper sense that you come from the perfect,

you are PLAY (acting from its own sense)

Paradigm 1) working toward perfection, siddhi, life is work, an

aspiration for ever improving, remaining like the ring on the

carousel. In a consuming paradigm of achieving perfection.

Paradigm 2) from Shiva Sutra: We dont work toward perfection, we

work from perfection! Coming from the perfect, life is an evocation

to evoke experience, to savor the reality of your own experience.

Come from perfect, life isnt work.

Why Play?

o i.e. in a yoga class, ok, I am going to do this, I am going to

get better, mildly happy VERSUS: OK I am going to do this

for its own sake

o The more you play and evoke yourself

o If you work from your perfection, the people you want will be

there.

o Because sublime is not a goal, the sublime has chosen tobecome you.

Moving from our perfection, we act in a different way

What are the features of work?

Mundane is important.

Do what you need to do to act from you perfection. Credentials give

you a space from which you can act in your perfection.

Raise your standards! Because the divine has raised its standards to

become you.

Life is a cherished gift, because the divine has aimed so high to

become you

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Panca Ayatana

Siddhi

Surya (Siddhi)

Sun gives freely of its own accord all the time, in all time.

Sun experiences us, infinitely. The eye of the world; LOCA: light, CAKSU: the world

LOCA

The light that is cast, the ability to experience

The capacity to experience itself.

All the names of the Gods are the names of the sun Apa

o because the first feature of the sun, is the reality itself.

o It is light in consciousness; casting light into it (or casting less

light)

o The ever reductive process that creates the universe, creates

more Locas.

o Drawing into itself if goes to the core to expand

CAKSU

Light is always seen through a prism, through relationship

You always experience reality through relationship

Loca light is real and Caksu that which can be experienced comesthrough the experience.

First implication:

Caksu is the subject (there is someone to experience the loca)

The subject (like the the eye

The someone seeing through the prism is called KARTR (the agent

that sees the eye)

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Surya 30/06/2005 14:05:00

SURYA

Not only the eye of the world, but the eye of the eye of the world.

The answer to the question is the question

The point of surya devyana is that consiousness has achieved you.

Your yoga is whatever question you ask.

Want to see that the question is the answer

You are the answer, you get to ask whatever questions you want.

Yoga you get to ask good questions, then become them

The promise?

o You will get the question you askmundane questions?

Mundane answers.

The divine desires to experience itself in the questions we ask.

Shiva as the GURU is telling SHAKTI, You are what make me known.

(When she asks to know the universe (him) this is what he answers.

In the body, the Sun is called the Thousand Petaled Lotus Sahastra

Dala Padma

As body:

The

Surya

12

fingers fromAjna to back

of

Shushumna

Kula Sahastra Dala Padma

Midline Madhyu (middle), thespace between the

beath, t

Agni solar plexus

12 fingersdown frommuladhara?

Akula

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Axis moving as mandala (sun and moon)

Kula and A-kula

Surya is the Top (12 finger lengths above) Akula soma 12 fingsers below

Agni solar plexus (in between the two

Life consiounsness is a gift (surya)

You reflect upon it as what? (soma) looking at the moon to see the

light

How to do you drink it?

Sury inside= fire

Above = transcendent above

Surya

Re-appropriations of teachings of the Vedic language

Svadhyaya

SWA- Self Tapas swadyaya ishwara pradidhana

Taking what you already know to be true and making it your own.

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Swa a Dha

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Self

,

thepref

ix =

torefence

wthi

none

To

m

ove

wi

thfocu

s,

inten

tion,

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place

,locat

e,

establish,to

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eroom

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The more you learn to create place, space, the ore sweet,

empowered you feel.

PRAVATI to turn toward the subject

Placing it in yourself, or accessing something within yourself.

India was obsessed with this not only because of memorization merits,

but because the empowerment belongs to agent not to texts.

The truth

The more universal the application of truth, the more it is expressed

through the personal, individual.

i.e. the Universal principals are seen through the application of an

individual

How does Surya go from a Vedic god to a Tantric one

1) old models tell us something remarkable: Vedas are rich fecund

ground. i.e surya, soma, agni

2) those deep structures represented in these stories have power

the tantrics respect the treasure-keepers, but they ask, what is the

value?

Suryas principal deities

1) Surya (sun)

2) Soma (moon, life-giving essence stuff)

3) Agni (fire)

4) Indra

Lord, king, generalissimo of the gods (later to be replaced by shiva)

Indra governed outwardly, shiva governed inwardly.

Story of the 5 Indras in the Mahabarata

o Yoga dominate outer world, but inner world dominates the

outer world.

witness consciousness

More a vedantic thning, no

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Surya as seed (BIJU)

Surya is the primal stuff out of which stuff starts.

Prakrityi, innate intelligent of acorn to become PARUSHA

ADI- everything that comes in the rest of the process, etc.

Surya marks the beginning because shakti is just energy. Surya becomes the ayatana upon which all primal energy appears.

1)

2) Surya as Shakti: sanjana (pur consciousness)

Insipient celebratory consciouness.

In alchemical terms:

menstrual cycle is a son w

the presence of the shakti, is like developing uterus.

CHAYAshade

Seed has light and shade. (potency and viability, then it has to

recede, conceal in order to grow

Surya is organic presence for potenty, potency

Shakti of sun is

o 1) Sanjna (

o 2) Chaya (Shade)

shade, company in something eles. Takes oncompanionship, other thoughts, turned inside out

o 3) Raitri

nighttime : womb . where is masculine presence?

o In moons phases is seminal fluids into the night taking hold

into the womb of the night.

Upward rising flame: linga

Mount Kilasa: vault of the sky

Image

Mythically,

Surya= companionship of the shakti (certainty, viability, sanjna)

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They come together, it starts to crack, opening up to possibilities, giving way

to the inverse, (unsertaty) reemerge a

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Surya Masculine Feminine

Soma

Agni

Indra

Sanja Chaya

Raitri

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Kundalini

not raising kundalini,

just finishing circuitry

He is on top, and she is at the bottom, fire in the middle.

Looking down to the sun in the moon, to experience his rise.

Bodily terms:

enveloping experience that the immortal (the fire is burning in your

heart.) eminating 12 legths of

The goal of circuited Kundalini is not to get it, but to taste it.

This is why evocation is so much more powerful than consumption.

SAVOR IT!

SURYA = PRAHASHA (illumuniation)

SOMA= VIMARSA (refelction)

YOGA= FIRE IN THE HEART (agni)

The way in which we drink the soma of the other as ourselves

The more you are able to see your own self on others, the more

you move through the process of deepening self awareness

12 fingers of space:

above and below

called 12 adityas

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tantrica 12 Kalis

Tantras

3 Vedic consorts of Shiva

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God

dess

Breath Seed

sounds: Mantra

Tantrica

Fo

rms

(Vedic)

Uma Inhale,exhaile

(Maide

n form of

life)

Sanjna:the way in

which grace isreceived in thebody

Natural breath:

taking thephysicaland

envelopingexperience

, opening

to gracethrough

embodiedbreath

Auspicious sound:

SRIM

Om

shrim Uma

devyai namaha

(opening to

grace mantra)

salutations to

the light who is

uma whoseessence is sri

in the form of

the breath

Surya

Gauri,

downward

facingtriangle

Breath

drawn down

into thebody, cools

thefoundation.

Cool goesdown intothe belly, the

heat of lowercakras

(Mature

phase ofcycle

cooling off)

Chaya (shade) Rising

breath,

Om hrim gauri

devyai namaha

Soma

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Chu

mundi

(wid

ens down

to thebase of

the

triangle,

then

comes

up.)

Heatin

g breath that

rises up(also the

crone, she

doesnt birthout, shebirths in)

Ratri:

inverse,

unknown,because the

night is

alywaysuncertain.The darker the

sky, the

greater it is,the bigger the

sky

Heati

ng breath

Om klim

chumundi

devyai namaha

Ag

ni

Kundalini moves like two cones of cakras, moving up and down... Like an upward facing triangle, downward facing triangle, heart is the

bindu.

The darker it gets, the bigger the sky gets, most

Three seeds are planted when we breath,

Suryas gift

The immortal has accomplished you

Grace has opened to become you

To taste the sun, we must taste its reflection, taste its shakti.

One practice is to offer the grace in the form of the Shaktis, the

viability, possibility, and deep deep reconsideration , repossability

(Raitri)

Tantra, this will take the shape in our own body. In that mediattion

the mantra becomes the body, the way to access your own

experience,

For the path of yoga is to enter into the experience of the devine

that has chosen to become you.

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Jappa and Katha as Musc and Org E 30/06/200514:05:00

Japam

The most condensed version

Whole story contained in japam, it can be expanded in the whole story

Surya

3 consorts turning into three other consorts (this story) is considered a teaching

aid to the shastra (the abstract pointed

Shastras Devatas

Arguments Art

Mythological philosophy

Story and Jappa as muscle and organic energy: The more you draw into Mantra, the more the story opens up.

The more you draw in (muscle e) as mantra, the more the story opens up. One

informs, drives the other. The greater the story becomes, the more you drive

into its source, its jappa

The memory of the story comes from going back to the seeds, the source, then

the rest of the story opens up like a painting.

Principal of innate sufficiency

Everyone has enough

Therefore, the stories will come.

Stories also come become they last

i.e. Sankya Yoga (Patanjali)

Doesnt last because it is clumsy, not precise, doesnt work

Yoga

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Evolutionary (has to get better) and progressive (works from what it already has)

What doesnt work is simply surpassed

How does Rajanica Tantra deal with other schools?

A blade has more than one side

Point of the tantras

We are the artists that paint our maya, we take a role in creating our Maya

Art analogy

The palette is the source of the painting. Its from the painting

The art is in the space, in the seam.

Aham fills the space in the Katha

Tantra says:

Weve got the palette, the canvas, please someone paint.

Its an invitation to participate, but critical is to realize the space (for thats where

my Anuma meets Anusara, my effort meets grace

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Body Heart Sublime awareness

Palette Body

Paint Prana Balam Spanda,awareness, vimarsa,

that you can be

present

Pramana (tool ofconciousness),

capacity to

understand,

measures ofcognition, how you

know things, trustingsense of testimony

Problem

when yogis say the body is the focus, mind is unimportant

Point of Tantra:

o All aspects of self are capable

Why is one thing at the expense of the other?

Problem with pramana

We dont use it very much

Mostly ir are in disuse

The mind is not in isolation of feeling, body, but its a kula

caudica siddhi, offered itself as

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what makes awareness sublime?

That humans can hold more than one thought, awareness, experience at one

time

Rich experience within every experience

Every experience is itself a kula.

Tantra doesnt have a goal, it has a rasa.

Point is not to achieve goals,

its to know what you love.

Lance

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Im here to have a rocken good time.

Nischaya

Certainty

Bringing the question to the sources of experience

Endeavoring to ask for your own desires when realizing that you have a gift of

embodiment, that consciousness moves through you, like consciousness

currents

URMI

o The flux, wave, flow, currents of consciousness

Key to the mind

Paradox, you can hold more than one thought at the same time.

When you say the things you dont mean, you are cursing yourself,

o You objectify the experience you dont want to have

i.e. saffron

When you say things that arent realSHAPA

Im never going to You are going to

The person you really want to be is not expressed in the moment.

Be the person you are going to be after the argument.

Bring your future self (the person after the argument) into the

discussion now.

Ask the question! (Nischaya)

What do I really want, and who is asking?

o Then your past, present and future self can form a kula

Thats why niscaya gives way to Kula

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It takes a village of yourself to experience yourself fully.

Bring everyone to the party.

Not the same one self having exp in diff forms, its that multiple

selves are present when you fracture selves is when you have

disturbance.o

Thrid stage of kaudica siddhi

We live in the community consciousness Kula)

Kaudica Siddhi

To find out who you are, you have to go to the palate,

We arent the reduction, but the pallaet ( the OPPORTUNITY)

Fourth feature of Kaudica Siddhi

Vira

Participation

Pravrity (turning towards), engaging, attending

Nivritti (turning away), not attending

o Because every affirmation has its simultaneous denial

Fearo The heros asset

o If you are not afraid, you are just going to die

o Respect offered to the objective

If respect is how fear manifests, then trust is how compassion

manifests.

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When someone needs compassion, you give them space.

Vira

o The heart opens

o

Vasarita Emmision, ecstacy release, orgasim, radical affirmation,

Saying yes to life

Not just the beginning but the end. Its full circle

The more you open up (vasarita)

o The more the siddhi buckles down.

By emmiting, it gives you the integrity of your experience Im so

happy you have what you have.

Love

o Its not both of you become one or to have the own

experience, but to savor your experience

Jealosy is hording experience,

Resenting someone elses experience.

If you get cheated on, its an indication of how unhappy the person

was.

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Four Features of Kaulika Siddhis 30/06/200514:05:00

Siddhi Divine has accomplished you, what do you want

Niscaya Authenticity of the question, arises from freedom, the

more deeply you step into the question

Kula Every exp is a collectivity, we are all multiple

personalities (past, pres, future) every time you look forone self, you find all personalities, embryonic

personalities, more you engage the palate, more waysyou paint.

Vira (hero /heroic)

Virya (the

experience of

heroic)

To hold diversity of self we have to becomegreatness, empowered, turning towards and away

(VIVEKA) discrimination) Kula of the rasas

Vasarga Experience, release, ecstasy, the integrity of the self andits goaldeeply subjective, and astonishingly vicarious

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Ganapati 7/4/2005 10:43:00 AM

The experience of freedom of perfection

we are invited to keep our own company,

GANA

Instance, example

o Gathering, rabble

PATI

Mastery, lordship, soverighty

Ganapati

The experience of ourselves when we realize the infinite is fashioned in Shakti

Embodiedment

opportunity to mold love into fore, to transform and deepen love into

relationship.

o This is why myth says that shakti fashions Ganapati on her own accord

As yogis, we must invite this gift that embodiedment is fashioned form love and

joy.

Then provide and honor the guest

three simple things to remember about the presence of this gift

1) life molded out of love out of shaktis own desire to experience

relationship of love

2)this body, heart, mind, gift of embodiedment is a celebration of that diversity

that is the self.

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o Ganas are your own thoughts ideas feelings

o Mother of the universe has chosen to fason himself in every form

3) those gifts of love and of infinite possibility (1,2) create in us an opportunity to

shape ourselves, transmute ourselves, to take the wound and to become

something greater from it.

o After all, Ganapati looses his head, and yet becomes greater for it by

gathering the head that is wiser, sweeter,

Fashioned from love, made in diversity, filled with opportunity.

Thats the GANA of the PATI

The yogis invitation is to step into that threshold, into that space of the

breath.and Ganapati appears like a paradox, a baby with an elefants head;

uncanny, have to see outside to see inside.

We are born from love and into a world that is both beneficent and violent.

(Everybody eats and makes its predation)

We have to loose our heads to become ourselves.

Shakti is ferocity, sometimes a violent embrace

Surya vs. Ganapati

Churns to the core of what is possible, Ganapati is what emerges form what is

possible.

o (Churning, it gets more solid, but more comes up. [muscle and org e?])

Ganapati

consiousness offers itself in every space, on every threshold, then reveals itself as

something that lies on both sides of the threshold, he is the threshold and the manifestation

of th e ganas (time and space)

Cakra

Sits at the foundation of body

Mula chakra

o Shows you you can find the root everywhere

o In an infinitely expanding universe, everythere is the center.

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o This is why he is the root of all science, inquiry, mantra, for onlyh the

manifest can have a beginning,

o He shows he is the beginning after beginning, not after an end

Vakra Kunda

Crooked trunk

Upward rising flame (shiva linga)

He touches you, drinks with it, its crooked, any which way.

The infinite turns anyway

Filled with warm dexterous beautiful touch

o Universe could go any way, especially when you least expect it.

Offers transfermation as the form of empowerment, as every moment a

beginning, every breath a threshold, an invitation

Reminds you that there is a great elegance and dignity to those thoughts and

feelings that make up our experience.

As an elephant, he teaches us there is nothing to be ashamed of. There is a

dignity to it, and you are entitled to it.

You give yourself permission to experience everything you really feel when you

can step into a deeper empowerment, a dignity, a resilience.

o i.e. yogis are bad at getting resilient.

o Yoga is meant to have us rise to the occasion

Ganapati the elephant is large, dignified, invites you to stand up.

Mula

As the root, he is the root strength, that the infinite has taken this peculiar and

crooked path to shape yourself into the form of your own consciousness. It is

filled with touch, and with the offer to drink from his infinite consciousness

Root is an indominable strength.

Deeply wize

often associated with the vowel U

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alswayys ofn threshold of mothers presence so he fighs the presence,

He holds the world in triatic consiousnessk and also in om, A_U_M

Threshold

he is in all threshold of consciouness

Phases of the moon

Ganapatis form

the trunk is crooked because the

The history of science Boorstein writes of calendars

Ganapati at the mula (with the moon), surya at the top,

Ganapati

Lots of inner listening, lots of exuding

Earth Element

Vs. Surya

Present all the time

But they call him Abhava inexperienced or absences.

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A non-experience

Ganapati

Bhava (he is experienced)

Manifest because of all he experiences with his tusk

He comes from love

o If he came from passion, its like the universe wants something.

Like babies, are made in passion, but come out as love

Manifestation

He is Niscaya

Thresholds matter

Sweet portrayals of Ganapati,

o Able to eat the seeds of a pomegranate one at a time

o Able to carry his enormity on a mouse

o Great thoughts, carried lightheartedly

o Carries his genius without a burden

Because he is present in root, he is present in everything else.

o Like a banyan tree that picks drops roots down form the tree

To become present in all the curvaceous passions of body, heart and mind is to

become Ganapati.

Big! Presence! No one argues with him.

Oedipal myth retold

But not a role of masculine identity, because he is in a Kula with Shiva, Shakti,

Just show up!

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Ours is a god that doesnt get angry for no reason, anger is there for a reason.

Forgiveness is a gift best given to oneself

SWAHA!

Fits well within a forgiveness model

The gods are out there to be you! Not to not be you

I am not you, I am like you, I am nothing but you.

We are all inside his tummy

Recognized we are fashioned from love

Ganapati

Body:

o Evacuation, sex, digesion, the low horizon

o Morning and night can have happy beginnings and happy endings

o Emissions stuff

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AUM 30/06/2005 14:05:00

A is Ganapatis head

U sound is his trunks

This is the table upon which the sweets are served

When ou see the the OM, the two loops are the sun and the earth, the bindu

is the moon, you see the moonlight reflected on the other side

When you turn this Visarga on its axis (orange)

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Vishnu 30/06/2005 14:05:00

Vishnu

Body

o In milky belly from belly to plexus

o Intestines, the waters

o All about worldliness,

You have to feed nourish the belly

o Holding place of transformation

o The trunk in the body

Vyaviharika

Conventionality, normal workli

Ram Boring truthful

Krishna

Buttery, intervening, seductive

All vishnus are about keeping things right. It is about keeping things

right in the the world.

VISHNU

SATTA (Reality)

Sat-ness (being authenticity) conventionality, ordinarty reality

YANNA (traversing, moving), NARA (humanity)

NARAYANA incarnate principal

DONT LOOK FOR DIVINE ELSEWHERE , IT IS IN THE EVERYDAY

Some people dont go any than the Vishnu Pancha Ayatana

Vishnu

o

Clan in the sense of the wordYou can stop here.

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In the throat

Strategies

To go inside into your own privacy, intimacy.

Below the palate, silence

Everything you want to say but that you cant

Wisdom that comes out when Shakti asks

o Coming out: nataraja

o Inside: Bairava (the ferocious yogi that stays in the forest)

Shiva faces south because that is the dirrectin south

He reminds you that death is another form

Silent (as inner yogi) Or curiously drawn out by his lover

core, emptiness

unmanifest because below palette and above inner fire (he get two

elements! Fire: going inside, and Wind; ready to coming out)

She has the ether

Voice

Voice, without articulation,

He is Rurda (the howler)

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Devi:

The fifth devi becomes three

o Devi, Shakti, shiva

o three dimensions

in every state, all states are contained

Shakti transforms into Kali, Sri

Shakti encodes itself as either Kali or Sri (nature or culture)

There are 365 days, because the universe doesnt want to be finished.

Because if it were, then it wouldnt be perfect, the year would be donebut

actually,

You are already perfect, and that is why you are not done.

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Let the greatness of your own heart be a consolation everyday

Yogis as honey bees

Becomes like honey bee attracted by the light to drink the nectar of

the self to create the honey of aham, your own experience.

We come and go from the hive

We empower ourselves to enrich others

revelation and concealment

companion = secrecy

Secret

o

E3verything is contained in your own heart, and yet it willunfold so that you may gather its nectar, one flower at a

time.

The ways in whick Shakti appears as the energy of our own

thoughts

Energy empowers herself, the secret she keeps in herself,

enveloping the manifest void in herself (Shiva)

Conceals as Kali, reveals as Sri, and she keeps the secret in her

heart that is Shiva (so Shiva always appears as Shakti as revelation

and concealment

o Because he is AKHYA

o Shiva is all the meanings the stories can hold

o Shakti is the story, but the secret of shiva is still in there

because he is all possibilities, the potentiality.

We find Shiva in that space in between the breaths where he appears

as Shakti

Every breath holds the seed The bottom of the breath is like planting the seed, the top of the

breath is the luminess that

What appears is the boundaries of consciousness that expand from

the middle.

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Devine revels the secrets as the world. Divine hides secrets within the

world. Devine is secreting the secret inside you.

Boundaries

Always expanding, like water in a stream, when you touch thestream, the water is different water.

Dharanas of the breaths

Matra is heald in the space between the breaths, where it is held in

possibility, held in the vastness of what a story can tell.

Urged to find the secret in the space

o The secret is shiva, revealed as Shakti

Shiva = Akula

Shakti = Kula

We dont worship shiva, but Shakti as more flowers,

The promise shiva makes is that there is always more promise.

In the place of attainment, you place promise.

Not about the battle, whether you will win or loose, but its about

the promise you make your self

you make a primoce, you keep a promise, you live a promise (past,present, and future)

o the Khatam gives us jappa

o

Challenging promise

Is being present in the forms your consiousness takes. Rajanica

see the practice of the Kaudica Siddhi in this complex relationship

In all the forms (pancha + 2, kali and sri)

Purpose is not to succeed or fail

o Succeed (beause it wont end)

o Cant fail (because you will always get something.

o Practice is to enrich, evoke

o Purpose is not to moralize, but to make valuable the

experience.

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o To give you the gift of experiencing deeply what you are

experiencing,

o Not to achieve rightness or wrongness

o The goal of this practice is not to make you good, but to

make your powerful so you can do good (ARTHA = purpose)o Not a question of How am I going to know how to do the

right thing, but How am I going to do the right thing.

Get out of the good and bad categories

Instead, what are we going to do when we see choice,

How are we going to not become victim

The presence of the self is I

so that is the teaching

In the body is breaths, in the heart is the states, and paradox lies the

awareness where you experience the known and the unknown at the same

time.

Purpose is not to fill the space, but to create the space. The more you

create the space, the more it expands

We self ourselves short, instead, let ourselves create the space Dhatu isnt the realm you fill, but the realm you create

o When you go to a yoga class, its not that the class fils you

uyp with ideas, its that you create yourself, you expand

yourself,

o You come to camp to fill it out, to put yourself into it

o You go to yoga class as a honey bee, to create room in

yourself, to transform that nectar, because you cant do it

alone

Because if you had t absorb everything, college would

be a dragyou go to college to

Anam Bramha

The absolute is food!

Chew

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Confidnece

I am going to value

Secrets are held in confidence (not in private) because there is a

debpth of secrecy in which there is always more.

o There is more there than the thing that was told.

Waking, dreaming, dreamlessness

In waking is where you

Who is the sleeping one?

o VISHNU,

o He is the state of deep sleep, and he is the ordinary world.

Because to live in the ordinary worold, the divine inside you

must be deeply asleep

o What is day to all creatures is night to me.

o Model:

Ordinary world (becoming expansive in everyday world)

Represented in Vishnu (who is deep sleep)

And ordinary lives depend on deep sleep (for embryonic

expansion)

So, what looks like waking to the ordinary world is

divinely deep sleep.

So, in order to be awake in the mundane sence, yourdivine sense has to be in deep sleep.

The divine needs to be sleeping, so that we can

experience ourselves as awake.

Deep sleep stays

Working on the notion of aham bhava (that the self is

fully present

Waking requires deep sleep

i.e. blood, cells, pancreas

o Secret

you must simultaneously be deeply asleep, and deeply

awake.

o Vishnu is the same one who is there wake, sleep, and deep

sleeper

o Deep sleep

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So not a state.so recognition, that it doesnt

awareness, it doesnt feature,

Like the lake that is so still that it reflects the

mountain.

The gift of luminous consciousness is = ANANDA

The immortal choses mortality

By chosing to experience itself, it becomes cit (consciousness)

If ananda belongs to surya, cit belongs to Ganapati

Visnu = krya all manifestation coming out of cit, ocean of

consciousness

Deep sleep:

The presumtion of waking and dreeming.

Most profoundly present in waking.

When you are asleep and dont recognize yourself (Maya)

Oceanic consciousness

Bottom of ocean, cant recognize self, surface, cant recognize self,

ocean is consciousness, ever expanding in the middle

deep sleep you experience one ness because there is no recognition of the

non-recognition

Task of Kaudika siddhi

To recognize the non-recognition

Only possible through waking consciousness to recognize non-

recognition

Only difference between states is

How does Ahum recognize itself

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A-H-A-M M-A-H-A

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The I

For Aham to appear, maha is present

The great I in deep sleep

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(Nakula head, bring the pandava twin sahadeva (with light) when

you are a knuckle head.)

The reason the heart and breath are in non-recognition, is

How do you gain experience of your deep sleep?

Key = Vishnus bija = SHREEM

Deep sleep is that which creates access to waking,

Because deep sleep is what happens when you dont recognize your

waking or dreaming sleep, but the self must be presentare you?

(as present in non-recognition of the self as in the waking state)

Ordinary

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Ordinary Pashu Vira Siddha state

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I dont know that

I dont dont know

I know that I

dont know

I know what I

dont know

Traversing

recognition and non

recognition with thegreatest of ease (flying

along on my circus

trapeze)

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The point of Vishnu Ayatana

To experience grace that when you are fully awake, the rest of you

is fully asleep.

you can experience your recognition!!

Because the bija offers the possibility

We have to be re-taught to be be free.

Its cultivating space in all states

Participating in non-recognition is oneness because it is apparent to

you in deep sleep.

The reason you dont recognize you are there, is because you are

there not recognizing it.

It becomes a question of access.

Dreaming belongs to Shiva

Take all the things youve already experienced and experience

them, and all the things you imagine experiencing and experiencing

them.

Yoga of shiva;o Knowing the value of that experience

o What value to place on

Dreaming

o Realizing the value of recognition in non-recognition.

o Seeing value:

Either making or non making a big deal of your dreams

The Paradox

o Dreaming is both a space and an energy

o Dream creates a space for Shakti to wander, to roam

Dreaming time

o Expands and contracts time, so that waking time can appear

to unfold in a normal, past, present and future.

o If you remove dreaming, you cant flow healthily, because

normal waking time is disrupted.

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o Non time is a form of time, just like the absense of

recognition is recognition

Dreaming

o Showing your more, but challenging you to fathom.

o In waking consciousness dreams are lies (its just a dream),in dreaming consciousness lies (myths) are dreams

The Mystery

o We dont recognize them for the gift of the lie (the myth) that

they are telling us.

Krsna called a lie and a gambler

o Dreaming is access to the paradox

o Why do we dream?

o To experience consiousness, to experience the paradox,

everytime you find the truth, there is more. (like at the end of

an experiment)

Allow us not to be stuck

o To hold paradox, to work out shit, to experience ecstacies you

dont get.

o Leverage, space to allow paradox to nurture, to enrich, to

empower,

o We are allowed to co-participate in our own paradox. The

paradox we get to co-participate in is the experience thatdreaming tells you about yourself in ways that challenge you

to experience lies as truths.

o The dream

Dreams are the way in which you converse in the paradox of the

self.

Yoga

Are you chankara? Are you wise? With what you do with the

dreams? The message isparadox. Unresolved, unfinished just

like everything else. Dreams dont solve your problems, dreams

reveal your nature.

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Waking is the grace-filled space

Conceal = Kali

Reveal = Sri

Ka Shakti

Surya Shiva

Ganapati

Vishnu

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OM; AIM HRIM SHREEM AIM KLIM Sauh

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Shiva consciousness never reveals himself as Shiva again, but as

Shakti and he se en states