Kashmir Shaivism 🔯

🌺 THE STATES OF RĀMA 🌺 गतिः स्थानं स्वप्नजाग्रदुन्मेषणनिमेषणे। धावनं प्लवनं चैव आयासः शक्तिवेदनम्॥८६॥ बुद्धिभेदास्तथा भावाः संज्ञाः कर्माण्यनेकशः। एष रामो व्यापकोऽत्र शिवः परमकारणम्॥८७॥ Moving, staying, going in dreams, staying in wakefulness, the twinkling of the eyes (unmeṣa and nimeṣa), running, jumping, not-knowing (ignorance), and knowing one’s own energies. Śakti vedanam, when he is aware of all his senses. That is śakti vedana when he is aware of all his senses and he makes the senses follow him. He is the actor, not the acted. And in addition, all differentiated states of knowledge, all moods, all names, all actions, all this collectively is called “rāma,” because He pervades all these movements. So, hence, Rāma is Śiva, and He is the supreme real cause of this whole universe. Rāma means who plays in this universe– the player. कल्मषक्षीणमनसा स्मृतिमात्रनिरोधनात्। ध्यायते परमं ध्येयं गमागमपदे स्थितम्॥८८॥ How you can get entry in the state of rāma? You have just to stop (vikalpa). Just stop various thoughts. You have to stop them, not by the ordinary mind, but by that mind which is an absolutely pure. By that mind, you have to see that all thoughts are put away. It is in vijñānākala–just entry. Vijñānākala is the entry. The entry begins from vijñānākala, the entry in one’s own nature. And there he contemplates on that supreme object which is established, that is established, in gama and agama: prāṇa and apāna from the āṇavopāya point of view, pramāṇa and prameya or jñāna and kriyā from the śāktopāya point of view, and prakāśa and vimarśa from the śāmbhavopāya point of view. Just be attentive. Don’t lose your own subjective consciousness. Bas, that is all. You just have to observe and hold what you are really. Nothing is to be practiced. Everything is there. ~ Swami Lakshmanjoo, Light on Tantra