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The
Wisdom Pages
DEVI ASKS:
O Shiva, what is
your reality?
What is this
wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes
seed?
Who centres the
universal wheel?
What is this
life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter
it fully, above space and time, names and
descriptions?
Let any doubts
be cleared!
[Devi, though
already enlightened, has asked the foregoing questions
so that others through the
universe might receive Shiva's instructions.
Now follows Shiva's reply, giving the 112 ways.]
SHIVA REPLIES:
1. Radiant one,
this experience may dawn between two breaths. After
breath comes in (down) and just before turning up
(out) - the beneficence.
2. As breath turns
from down to up, and again as breath curves from up
to down - through both these turns, realise.
3. Or, whenever
inbreath and outbreath fuse, at this instant touch
the energyless energy-filled centre.
4. Or, when breath
is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in
(down) and stopped - in such universal pause, one's
small self vanishes. This is difficult only
for the impure.
5, Consider your
essence as light rays rising from centre to centre up
the vertebrae, and so rises livingness in you.
6. Or in the
spaces between, feel this as lightning.
7. Devi, imagine
the Sanskrit letters in these honey-filled of
awareness, first as letters, then more subtly as
sounds, as most subtle feeling. Then, leaving them
aside, be free.
8. Attention
between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let
form fill with breath essence to the top of the head,
a there shower as light.
9. Or, imagine the
five coloured circles of the peacock tail be your
five senses in illimitable space. Now let their
beauty melt within. Similarly, at any point in space
or on a wall until the point dissolves. Then
your wish for another come true.
10. Eyes closed,
see your inner being in detail. Thus see your nature.
11. Place your
whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the lotus
thread, in the centre of your spinal column. In such be
transformed.
12. Closing the
seven openings of the head with your hands, a space
between your eyes becomes all Inclusive.
13. Touching
eyeballs as a feather, lightness between them opens
into heart and there permeates the cosmos
14. Bathe in the
centre of sound, as in the continuous sound of a
waterfall. Or, by putting fingers in ears, hear the
sound of sounds.
15. Intone a
sound, as a-u-m, slowly. As sound enters
sound-fullness, so do you.
16. In the
beginning and gradual refinement any letter, awake.
17. While
listening to stringed instruments, composite central
sound; thus omnipresence.
18. Intone a sound
audibly, then less and less audibly as feeling
deepens into this silent harmony.
19. Imagine spirit
simultaneously within and around you until the entire
universe spiritualises.
20. Kind Devi,
enter Etheric presence pervading far above and
below your form.
21. Put
mindstuff in such inexpressible fineness above,
below, and in your heart.
22. Consider any
area of your present form as limitlessly spacious.
23. Feel your
substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with cosmic
essence.
24. Suppose your
passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin -
empty.
25. Blessed one,
as senses are absorbed in heart, reach the centre of
the lotus.
26. Unminding
mind, keep in the middle - until.
27. when in
worldly activity. keep attentive between the the
breaths, and so practising. in a few days be born
anew.
28. Focus on fire
rising through your form from the toes up until the
body burns to ashes but not you.
29. Meditate on
the make-believe world as burning to ashes, and
become being above human.
30. Feel the fine
qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and
assuming delicate configurations.
31. With
intangible breath in centre of forehead, as this
reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction
over dreams and over death itself.
32. As,
subjectively, letters flow into words and words into
sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into
worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these
converging in our being.
33. Gracious one,
play. The universe is an empty shell wherein your
mind frolics infinitely.
34. Look upon a
bowl without seeing the sides or the material, In a
few moments become aware.
35. Abide in some
place endlessly spacious, clear of trees,
hills, habitations. Thence comes the end of mind
pressures.
36. Sweet-hearted
one, meditate on knowing and not knowing, existing
and not existing. Then leave both aside that you may be.
37. Look lovingly
on some object. Do not go on to another object. Here,
in the middle of this object the blessing.
38. Feel cosmos as
translucent ever-living presence.
39. With utmost
devotion, centre on the two junctions of breath and
know the knower.
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