Vignana Bhairava Tantra – 91

Jump off from the visarga diving board

Varnaysya Savisargasya Visargantham Chiti Kuru|

Niradharena Chittena Sphured Brahma Sanatanam||

In this meditative practice which Lord Shiva explains to us through his disciple Goddess Parvathi, the Visarga is used as a tool for meditation. The Visarga : has the sound of ‘Ha’ and is placed at the end of some letters in Sanskrit such as Rama: Krishna: Shiva: Hari: Guru: or Lakshmi:  When pronounced, they sound like Ramaha, Krishnaha, Shivaha, Harihi, Guruhu and Lakshmihi. The meditator  is asked to take up a letter with its visarga to chant it and allow the mind to drop with the visarga. When the mind becomes supportless, it touches the supreme reality that is ever present. - SS

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Meditate on ‘अ ’

Abindum Avisargam Cha Akaram Japato Mahan|

Udeti Devi Sahasa Jnanaugha Parameshwaraha||

The first letter ‘अ of the Sanskrit alphabet, which is invariably the first letter of most of the world languages, is the first sound to emerge from space. When it is chanted without the concluding sound called the Bindu which gives a full stop to it and the sound of Visarga, represented in Sanskrit by two dots :, sounding like “aha” or “uhu” depending on the preceding sound, O Parvati – in that great soul, a river of knowledge about the supreme Ishwara flows immediately. – SS.

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – 89

Train them inward

Yasya Kasyendriyasyaapi Vyaghathaccha Nirodhitha:|

Pravishtasyadvaye ShunyeTatraivatma Prakashate||

If the individual takes upp even one sense organ and restrains it from going repeatedly to its pastures, he enters into his own non-dual void within. The expression of the mind outward is brought within and there the atman shines in all its glory.

For instance, instead of allowing the eyes to roam around and getting tired watching different forms all the time, they can be kept closed. This allows the eye of contemplation to open within and there lies the discovery of the self. – SS

Vignana Bhairava Tantra – 88

Bhairava expands with consciousness

Evameva Nimeelyadau Nethre Krishnabhamagrataha|

Prasarya Bhairavam Rupam Bhavayanstanmayobhaveth||

In the same way, as soon as you close both the eyes, there is a deep darkness that is seen before you, within closed eyes. Allow the consciousness within, that beholds the darkness, to expand into the form of Bhairava. As you meditate upon that form in this manner, you soon become one with the consciousness of Bhairava. - SS

Vignana Bhairava Tantra - 87

Meditate on the dense darkness of night

Evameva Durnishayam Krishna Pakshaagame Chiram|Taimiram Bhavayan Rupam Bhairavam Rupameshyati||

This verse tells us to do dharana or concentrate the mind on the darkness of the night's sky. It is not the darkness of a bright moonlit sky, but the dense and fearsome darkness when the moon approaches a new moon day of the waning phase. Sit alone with the sky for company and look at the terrible darkness of the sky. Meditate upon this thick black dark form of formlessness and Bhairava the aspect of truth assumes thhat very dark form right before your eyes. - SS

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Only Bhairava everywhere

Kichith Jnatam Dwaitadaayi Bahyalokastamah Punaha|
Vishwadi Bhairava Rupam Jnatvanantaprakasha Bruth||

Having known a little bit of this world outside, dual in nature with ups and downs, joys and sorrows, highs and lows, days and nights - the darkness of non-apprehension of the reality always remains. Withdrawing  our perception from the outer world of differences, if we take our sight to the seer consciousness or Bhairava, nothing else but illumination remains. If there is joy that is revealed, sorrow revealed, wealth, poverty, popularity, and all these states of being are revealed to us, the knowing alone is nothing but the light of pure awareness. - SS

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When space merges within you

Leenam Moordhni Viyathsarvam Bhairavathvena Bhavayeth|
Tatsarvam Bhairavakara Tejasthathvam Twamavisheth||

Meditating on the space in the forehead - Chidakasha Dhyana, is a means of getting absorbed into that consciousness. As you sit with eyes closed, experience as if all the space is getting absorbed in your forehead. Now, feel the presence of consciousness of Bhairava completely pervading the forehead. When the moment of contemplation leads you to the understanding that all that you see is nothing but the thought of Bhairava, you enter into the essence of pure light. - SS