Shiva Sutra
by Shiva
by Shiva
| Many books carry the name of Shiva; many of them are not true, they are just using the name to become respectable. But this book is one of the most authentic, Shiva Sutra. I have spoken on it in Hindi: I am thinking of speaking on it in English too. I have even decided the date, but you know me.... This book Shiva Sutra contains the techniques of all meditations. There cannot be any other technique that is not included in this book. Shiva Sutra is the very bible of meditators. .... – Osho Books I Have Loved |
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The book Osho is referring to here may be the Shiva
Sutras of Kashmir Shaivism, thought to have been
revealed to a man named Vasugupta by the Hindu
incarnation of God, Shiva – c. 900 CE.
They are 77 aphorisms supposedly shown by Shiva to
Vasugupta on a rock in the Himalayan region of
northwest India – having connections to Tantra and
Vedic ideas of that time.
A second possibility is that Osho is referring to Shiva's
112 methods of meditation, contained in what is
sometimes called the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra sutras of
Shiva. Osho has talked extensively on these in his
series of discourses titled The Book of Secrets.
Sutras of Kashmir Shaivism, thought to have been
revealed to a man named Vasugupta by the Hindu
incarnation of God, Shiva – c. 900 CE.
They are 77 aphorisms supposedly shown by Shiva to
Vasugupta on a rock in the Himalayan region of
northwest India – having connections to Tantra and
Vedic ideas of that time.
A second possibility is that Osho is referring to Shiva's
112 methods of meditation, contained in what is
sometimes called the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra sutras of
Shiva. Osho has talked extensively on these in his
series of discourses titled The Book of Secrets.
| The first 3 sutras from the Kashmir Shiva Sutras: Caitanyamatma 1. Universal Consciousness is one's own nature. Jnanam Bandhah 2. Knowing the individual consciousness as one's own nature and not knowing the Universal Consciousness as one's own nature, is bondage. Yonivargah Kalasariram 3. Differentiated perception and the field of individual activities are also bondage. |