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Journal of Oriental Research Vol.42-46. K.S.R.I.,. Chennai .1987, pp.57-65.
2
Proceedings and Transactions of the Tenth All India Oriental Conference.
1941,pp.264-65.
3
Kashmir Saivism, Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, Delhi. 1996, p 344.
4
Secret of the siddhas. SYDA Foundation, N.Y., 1980, p.217.
5
Dhyana Buddhism in China, Indo-Chinese Literature Publications.
Allahabad, 1960, p.19.
6 Yogis in Silence: The great Sufi Masters, By R.K. Gupta, B.R. Paperback,
Delhi, 2002,p.32-3.
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Abhinavagupta says:
su: hv YQqmw: wutw n
wwjum yw wjtwou m
qquwm
um: u ytw: 7
7
Tantrasra , hnika 2, Kashmir series of texts and studies, Bombay, 1918,
p.8.
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.The Vtulanthastra with the Vtti of Ananda aktipda, Kashmir Series of
test and sutra No. 39,1923, p.3.
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Shasa school
Such realization comes without any sequential progress or
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order, as the Vtulanthastra (1-2) says:
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wsw yu hj rowo
on wm s h v
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Further he says:
yytZw lm
wt qmuw u
u womro swm mw u
w swy t 10
jm jmuw
Zmrom:
qmpn w: swp ywm:
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10 ibid. 61-62.
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Ibid. pp.3662 - 63. It may be noted here that in the texts on Haha yoga,
we do not find the eight varieties of khecar , though it is said to be the
best among the mudr (vide. Hahayogapradpik I.43). But kualin is
described as aapraktirp by many texts on Hahayoga.
11
Tantrloka p .168.
7a
Pratyabnijhdayam Motila Banarsidass, Delhi, 1963
6
jm wm jmyw wjmu
u ytwtm Q:
ypsoum 13
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This is ajap gyatr
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Mlinivijaya.
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Such a mode of contemplation is recommended in ancient Yogic texts like
Yogayjavalkya, (VI.8-10)
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wy ts rq ty
w Qqm mm w
mt
m qm m qu
u
ku: ytw sw y :
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Zutw u Zuk
t
swq un uu ywFxtYtq 15
15
Yogavsitha VI.a.128.60-62
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16
Kaha.up.ll.23: also Muaka. Up.III.2.3.
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Saktinipta section in the Kriydpik. pp.140-42.
18
Somaambhupaddhati. Vol. III. 3.
19
Kriykramadyotik, with the comm. of Nirmalamai, Chidambaram,
1927, pp.264.67
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tvqq: Qqmu m: y j
q u:
Traditionally four degrees of aktipta are mentioned:
Tvratara (more intense). tvra (intense) manda (mild) and
mandatara (very mild). Texts like Kriydpik and
nagurudevapaddhati extend the possibilities to many more
divisions such as mandatvra, mandatvratara and so on. 20
mm mwm ytQ: mw
t, t q: , tm
tjtumm jmmu swmun :
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20
p.141 and xvi.1-9 respectively
21
Somaambhupaddhati, III.7
10
tvqq Qqm j w
yq : w
wom 22
ux Q: qmuq
wu
mx mvtyu tQ
x swnm
sQb wsQx my wo
23
22
Kriykramadyotik, p.264
23
Mgendrgama, Vidypda 4 -5
24
aivaparibh of ivgra Yogin, University of Madras, 1982, p.288
wttQ qot wb
ujmp uqw tmu Onm:
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tv v qw qmm w
Q swpOt
x :uy w sk
mmpu u
q y u um wq
ukumww
qmp q u
ytujtxp mm
Qqmm mw swm
12
25
ivajabodha cemporu Sri Kasi Matham. Tiruppanantal. 1958, p.8.
13
Ow nv yt ytm ytmt j
tm:
q sx yq
kwm jmo mm 26 a
tu Zy mwku
q q mttum 27
the word tmayogt gives us a clue that there might have been
the transmission from lord Ka to Arjuna from heart to heart.
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6 a. q. by V.D. Gulavani in his Transmission of spiritual power, Kalya
Kalpataru. Vol.VII.No.1.1940, p.272.
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u j m uumtu mt
mq: Zsw wmm y:
uu mwx mp wsy
26
ytOttvw ju j:
Here the greatness of Vysa is depicted by the term
tapaprabhvat and of Arjuna by the word yogyatama. The word
sadya suggests that the effect was immediate. The word
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Kirtrjunya, III.26.
29. For more details see The Silence of the Yogis: The great Sufi Masters by
R.K. Gupta.
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