Texts
Sri Tantralokah by Abhinavagupta (6 Vols.)
श्रीप्रपञ्चसारतंत्रम (1-2 भाग)
मूलतः आचार्य शंकर तांत्रिक थे और श्रीविद्यार्णव के रचयिता श्रीविद्यारण्य के अनुसार लोक में प्रचलित तमाम तांत्रिक-पद्धतियां शंकर से बहार नहीं. तांत्रिक प्रयोगों से लोक का कल्याण हो इसीलिए उन्होंने 'प्रपंचसारतंत्र' की रचना की और शंकर शिष्य पदमपाद ने इस पर 'विवरण' लिखा. बाद में श्री लक्ष्मणदेशिक, श्रीराघवभट्ट, श्रीविद्यारण्य तथा श्रीगिरवणेन्द्र सरस्वती जैसे तंत्रज्ञ विद्यानों ने शंकर की तांत्रिक विरासत को और भी समृद्ध किया.
Tantrasara by Abhinavagupta (HB)
Tantrasara is an extensive digest and recension of Tantraloka, a magnum opus by Acarya Abhinavaguptapada. The author himself created this digest to have a comprehensive study of the voluminous text, as this great and important text is not easy to absorb by everyone in a larger study material form. The complete text (10th century A.D.) is a compendium of all Tantrika rituals and philosophical essence of Tantra, drawn from the light of all pre-precepts on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir Shaivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of Shaivism with the technical term Pratyabhijna. Abhinavagupta explains here in a lucid way about the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way.
Tantrasara by Abhinavagupta (PB)
Tantrasara is an extensive digest and recension of Tantraloka, a magnum opus by Acarya Abhinavaguptapada. The author himself created this digest to have a comprehensive study of the voluminous text, as this great and important text is not easy to absorb by everyone in a larger study material form. The complete text (10th century A.D.) is a compendium of all Tantrika rituals and philosophical essence of Tantra, drawn from the light of all pre-precepts on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir Shaivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of Shaivism with the technical term Pratyabhijna. Abhinavagupta explains here in a lucid way about the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way.
Sakti and Sakta
The Sakta Tantra is a Sadhana Sastra of Monistic (Advaitavada) Vedanta. It is to me a profound and powerful system, and its doctrine of Sakti or Divine Power is one the greatest evolved, through spiritual intuition, by the human mind which, according to its teaching, is a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness Itself. (Siva)
Tantric Forms of Ganesa
The number of publications dealing with Ganesa is not insignificant, few take original Sanskrit texts into consideration. The Tantric aspects of the deity have certainly been studied too little. This book contributes to our knowledge of this less familiar side of Ganesa. This text gives the iconographic peculiarities, mantras, and yantras of fourteen forms of Ganesa as well as instructions for the ritual application of the mantras.
रुद्रयामलम उत्तरतन्त्रम
The Great Liberation
नारद पंचरात्र
The World As Power
There is a Supreme Reality which is Eternal and Indefinable. It is an Absolute, inconceivable and ineffable-The Brahman. Unknowable in its utterness, this Reality presents itself to us in three supreme terms of its truth : an absolute Existence, Sat; an absolute Consciousness, Cit; and an absolute Bliss, Ananda. This is the poise of Brahman turned towards self-revelation.
