Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 83 BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM? CONSIDER. DISSOLVE IN THE BEAUTY. BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM? A desire arises: with the desire, the feeling that I AM arises. A thought arises: with the thought, the feeling that I AM...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 97 CONSIDER THE PLENUM TO BE YOUR OWN BODY OF BLISS. This second technique is concerned with the first. Consider space to be your own body of bliss. Meditating on a hilltop with endless space before you, you can do it. Consider it to be filled with your own body of ...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 87 I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. THIS IS THIS. OH BELOVED, EVEN IN SUCH KNOW ILLIMITABLY I AM EXISTING. You never enter deeply into this feeling. I AM EXISTING. You are existing, but you never dig deep into this phenomenon. Shiva says: I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. TH...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 86 SUPPOSE YOU CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING BEYOND PERCEPTION, BEYOND GRASPING, BEYOND NOT BEING - YOU SUPPOSE YOU CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING BEYOND PERCEPTION -- that which cannot be seen, which cannot be perceived. But can you imagine something which cannot be seen? Imaginati...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 80 MEDITATE ON THE MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD AS BURNING TO ASHES, AND BECOME BEING ABOVE HUMAN. If you can do the first, the second will be very easy. If you can come to imagine that your body is burning, it is not difficult to imagine that the whole world is burning -- be...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 88 EACH THING IS PERCEIVED THROUGH KNOWING. THE SELF SHINES IN SPACE THROUGH KNOWING. PERCEIVE ONE BEING AS KNOWER AND KNOWN Whenever you know something, it is known through knowing. The object comes to your mind through the faculty of knowledge. You look at a flowe...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 82 FEEL -- MY THOUGHT, I-NESS, INTERNAL ORGANS -- ME A very simple and a very beautiful technique. Feel: MY THOUGHT, I-NESS, INTERNAL ORGANS -- ME. The first thing is not to think but to feel. These are two different dimensions. And we have become so intellect-orien...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 101 BELIEVE OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT, PERVADING This too is based on inner power, inner strength. It is very seed-like. Believe that you are omniscient, all-knowing; believe that you are omnipotent, all-powerful; believe that you are pervading, all-pervading.... How c...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 79 FOCUS ON FIRE RISING THROUGH YOUR FORM, FROM THE TOES UP, UNTIL THE BODY BURNS TO ASHES BUT NOT YOU FOCUS ON FIRE RISING THROUGH YOUR FORM, FROM THE TOES UP, UNTIL THE BODY BURNS TO ASHES BUT NOT YOU. A very simple technique and very wonderful, very easy to do, b...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 89 BELOVED, AT THIS MOMENT LET MIND, KNOWING, BREATH, FORM, BE INCLUDED This technique is a little difficult, but if you can do it, then very wonderful, beautiful. Sitting, don't divide. Sitting in meditation, be inclusive of all -- your body, your mind, your breath...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 85 THINKING NO THING -- WILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT That's what I was saying. If there is no object to your attention, you are nowhere; or, you are everywhere, you are free. You have become freedom. This second sutra says: THINKING NO THING -- OR, THINKING NOTHING -- ...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 99 FEEL YOURSELF AS PERVADING ALL DIRECTIONS, FAR, NEAR Tantra and yoga both think that your narrowness is the problem. Because you have made yourself so narrow, so tightly narrow, you feel always in bondage. The bondage is not coming from anywhere else: the bondage...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 78 WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE. What? What experience? In this technique, firstly you have to develop attention. You have to develop a sort of attentive attitude, onl...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 90 TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER, LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM OPENS INTO HEART AND THERE PERMEATES THE COSMOS Before entering the technique, some introductory remarks about it. First, something has to be understood about the eye, because the whole technique depends on i...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 93 CONSIDER ANY AREA OF YOUR PRESENT FORM AS LIMITLESSLY SPACIOUS This is the same, through a different door. The basic essential is the same, that is, to destroy limits. Mind creates limits. If you don't think, you move into the unlimited. Or, from a different door...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 96 ABIDE IN SOME PLACE ENDLESSLY SPACIOUS, CLEAR OF TREES, HILLS, HABITATIONS. THENCE COMES THE END OF MIND PRESSURES Before we enter this technique three other points about loneliness must be understood. One: to be alone is basic, foundational -- that is how your b...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 98 IN ANY EASY POSITION GRADUALLY PERVADE AN AREA BETWEEN THE ARMPITS INTO GREAT PEACE This is a very simple method but it works miraculously -- try it. And anyone can try it, there is no danger. The first thing is to be in an easy relaxed position -- relaxed in a p...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 91 KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW YOUR FORM KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW YOUR FORM. The second can be done only if you have done the first. It can be done separately also, but then it will be very d...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 81 AS, SUBJECTIVELY, LETTER 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 That too is an imaginative technique. The ego is always afraid -- afraid of bei...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 84 TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE, REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE. ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE, REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE. ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS. Many points have to be understood. First: TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE. There ...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 94 FEEL YOUR SUBSTANCE, BONES, FLESH, BLOOD, SATURATED WITH THE COSMIC ESSENCE Try with simple experiments. For seven days try one simple experiment: feel your blood, your bones, your flesh, your body, filled with sadness -- every cell of the body sad; dark night ar...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 92 PUT MINDSTUFF IN SUCH INEXPRESSIBLE FINENESS, ABOVE, BELOW AND IN YOUR HEART Three things. First, if knowledge is important then the head is the center; if childlike innocence is important then the heart is the center. The child lives in the heart; we live in the...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 100 THE APPRECIATION OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS IS THE SAME FOR AN ENLIGHTENED AS FOR AN UNENLIGHTENED PERSON. THE FORMER HAS ONE GREATNESS: HE REMAINS IN THE SUBJECTIVE MOOD, NOT LOST IN THINGS There is a very beautiful method. You can start it as you are; no other pr...

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Meditation Technique 95 FEEL THE FINE QUALITIES OF CREATIVITY PERMEATING YOUR BREASTS AND ASSUMING DELICATE CONFIGURATIONS A few important points before I enter this.... Shiva is talking to Parvati, to Devi, his consort, so this technique is specifically for women. There are a few point...