Spanda-Pulsation of Creation

divine creative pulsation

Spanda In the Monier-Willliams Sanskrit-English Dictionary



spandana 1
spandana 2

. . . and in Jaideva Singh:



kinchit & spanda


Note about hridaya-spanda


Abhinavagupta, bhavas, hridaya-spanda


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  • Dr. Jaideva Singh has re-edited the text and the commentary with the assistance of his guru Swami Laksmana Joo. He has provided an English translation of both the text and Ksemaraja`s commentary.

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  • Dr. Rajendra, Kallaṭa - 1994 - 99 pages - Snippet view
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  • Study of the Śivasūtra (Spandakārikā) of Vasugupta, aphoristic work on Trika philosophy of Kashmir Saivism; includes text with Kallaṭa's Sanskrit commentary.
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  • Spanda remains true to her own nature as Pure Perceiving Awareness. 132. ... His power of reflection is His magnificent, glamorous Spanda Sakti. 137. Through His glamorous, scintillating Spanda Sakti, ...
    Even in this act of concealment,
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  • Spanda School The philosophical theology of the ŚD shows itself to be in many ways rather compatible with the Spanda School of Somānanda's time. Indeed, in examining the SpKā, Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa's commentary thereon ...
    The S ́ivadr.sti and the
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  • In this business of self-discovery, it's essential to remain true to your own initiative and responsiveness. ... Spanda is a Sanskrit word for spontaneous expression. To me it affirms my right to be alive in this moment exactly ...
    SPANDA
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  • Spanda is the recurrent pulse of Siva's movement down into gross material forms and ... In this way the entire range of reality as the ongoing process of evolution and regression is Spanda, which is Siva. ...
    Thus Utpala stresses that
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  • Spanda in Kashmir Saivism. Spanda is also designated as Sphuratta ofParama Siva. The most important work of Saivism, next to Siva- Sutras, is Spanda-Karika which is attributed to Vasugupta himself by some and ...
    Sphurti is identical with
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  • Spanda: The Universal Activity of Absolute Consciousness We have seen how the dynamic (spanda) character of absolute consciousness is its freedom to assume any form at will through the active diversification of awareness (vimarsa ) ...
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  • Spanda Principle The spanda principle (spanda-siddhdnta) is one of the most important principles of ... While the term spanda has already been introduced, the present chapter will be devoted to a detailed discussion of it ...
    Chapter 6 The


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  • Spanda ...
    From the above it would appear that Vasugupta did no more than simply transmit the Sutras with their meanings to Kallata who spread their knowledge by writing explanatory treatises on them, one of these treatises being called the
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  • Turn down the volume of the world. ... Spanda.
    Spanda
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  • Spanda- karika-s, the next important non-dual Kashmir Shaiva text, which deal with consciousness as spanda — vibration.90 Given the close nature of the master- disciple ...
    89 There is some debate about whether Vasugupta or Kallata wrote the
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  • Spanda-kdrikas were a commentary on the Sivasutras, (ii) Vasugupta and Kallata both are related to the Spanda- kSrikBs whether directly or indirectly, (iii) Kallata did write two commentaries on the Sivasutras. ...
    (i) the
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  • spanda, or sound. The more manifest aspects of spanda are not normally ... The emotion is considered to be the cause rather than the result of spanda. In actuality, one starts with the ...
    These frictions result in perceptual vibrations,
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  • SPANDA IN SPIRITUAL LIFE JAIDEVA SINGH The concept of Spanda In Sankhya, Patanjala Yoga and ... This vimar'sa is its spanda. It is not simply light, but light throbbing with life, with creativity, with manifestation. ...
    THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
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  • spanda. It means throb or pulse. ... From that spanda. the whole world comes forth. This ocean of Consciousness is the Absolute; the throb is Its creative power. ...
    Critical to the Kashmir Shaivite discussion of sound is the principle of
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  • Spanda-sdstra As in the case of the Siva-sutras, the emphasis of the ...
    That is why the Siva-sutras in describing each updya or technique do not confine themselves solely to that updya, but also refer to other updyas as aids.15'
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  • is consciousness, the vibration, the ceaseless force from which springs all that exists. ... Here he experiences Spanda. The term 'bliss' also expresses the same concept. Spanda is supreme Universal Power embodying all ...
    Spanda