Vignana Bhairava Tantra – 119

 Go back to your remembrance

Vastushu Smaryamaneshu Drushtedeshe Manastyajeth|

Swashareeram Niradharam Krithwa Prasati Prabhuhu||

When in the seat of meditation, your remember some object, person, situatiion or place you have seen, met and experienced in the past, the mind and body consciousness immediately are dropped as the mind gets totally absorbed in that thought. In that state of deep absorbption, the Lord who is the witness of all emerges to the perceiving consciousness. - SS

Vignana Bhairava Tantra – 118

Whether you sneeze or cough

Kshutadyante Bhaye Shoke Gahvareva Ranadrute|

Kutuhale Kshudhadyante Brahma Sattamayi Dasha||

Tantra leaves no activity or experience go unnoticed from turning it into a spiritual experience. Before and after a good sneeze, in great fear, in sorrow, when confused or when running away from battle, when you experience curiosity about something or  before and after hunger – the reality is present in its essential form of existence. - SS

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra - 116

Wherever the mind goes

Yatra Yatra Mano Yati Bahye Vabhyantarepi Va|
Tatra Tatra Shivavasthath Vyapakathwathkwa Yasyati||

Wherever the mind goes, that auspicious presence of the divine which is called by the name of Shiva is already present. The mind may wander anywhere, but nowhere can it not meet with that Shivam or consciousness which is present everywhere and in everything. Shiva does not go before the mind, but being omnipresent, there is no place where it is not. - SS.

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – 115

In the deep abyss

Kupadike Mahagarte Sthithvopari Nirikshanath|

Avikalpamateh Samyak Sadyah Chittalayah Sphutam||

Bringing the mind to a deep dark abyss of a well or a deep tunnel in the ground the seeker may concentrate. The mind becomes what it sees and dwells upon. It takes the shape of a bottomless abyss. In that moment, know that the su-conscious mind becomes completely absorbed especially because the darkness and depth makes it drop all its imaginations. - SS

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – 114

Dharana on the sound within

Sankocham Karnayoh Krithwa Hyadhodhwaram Tathaivacha|

Anachkamahalam Dhyayan Vished Brahma Sanatanam||

Closing all external sounds by plugging the ears and drawing the lower openings of the body within through the yogic method of Moola Bandhana, when the Sadhaka is available to the unstruck sound within and gets absorbed in it, then the mind enters into the eternal state of Brahman. - SS

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – 113

Looking steadily

Sampradayamimam Devi Shrunu Samyagvadamyaham|

Kaivalyam Jayate Sadyaha Netrayoh Stabdhamatrayoho||

Shiva tells Parvathi to listen carefull to a traditional practice. Just by keeping the eyes steadily fixed without movement, the state of oneness is experienced instantly. - SS

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – 112

Ignorance too has a place

Aadhareshwathava Shaktya Ajnana Chittalayena Va|

Jata Shakti Samavesha Kshobhante Bhairavam Vapuhu||

There is many an occasion when we get thoroughly confused. Just as Arjuna, the great warrior was confused during the Mahabarata war, when we face such situations – our thoughts spin in a similar direction, ending in a different experience.

Whether the mind is supportless or having no energy to function on its own or temporarily non-functional due to ignorance, an energy is born. Being with that state of ignorance and confusion, one reaches Bhairava. – SS