Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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 around you; very heavy, depressed; not a single ray of light; no […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Techniques No. 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 points to be understood. One: the male body and the female body are similar, […]

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Introduction to Meditation Technique No. 96 & 97

96. Abide in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills, habitations. thence comes the end of mind pressures.  97. Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss. Man is born alone and dies alone, but between these two points he lives in society, he lives with others. Aloneness is his basic reality; […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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 being is. In the mother;s womb you are alone, totally alone, and […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Introduction to Technique No. 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 bliss. There are seven bodies. […]

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Introduction to Meditation Technique No. 98 & 99

98. In any position gradually pervade an area between the armpits into great peace.  99. Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.  Life on the outside is a cyclone — a constant conflict, turmoil, struggle. But it is only so on the surface — just as on the surface of the ocean are waves, […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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 position that is easy […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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 is coming from your narrow mind. And it goes on being […]

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Introduction to Meditation Technique No. 100 & 101

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.  101. Believe omniscient, omnipotent, pervading.  Many people seem to be interested in meditation, but that interest cannot be very deep because so […]

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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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 prerequisite is needed. The method is simple: you […]

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