Swami Lakshmanjoo ~ VBT 112 meditations

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-33&34/112

This meditation requires a view universal
Looking at creation from gross to subtle

Lowest to highest, the triad of tantra
Apara, para-para & Para
118 worlds, 36 elements, 5 circles
Not for everybody, a practice not so simple

We may also employ imagination
As of Bhairavas own suggestion
Placing ourselves in the void, the centre
118 worlds above, 118 below ... then God enters!

Or let us tweak this practice holographically
Going in within, into our heart, innocently
Looking at love hues in prismatic variety
Love too having colours in graded subtlety

Joy, empathy, compassion, bliss & purity
Which of these pulsates within in continuity ...

As Samadhi

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-35/112

How deep is our stillness
Is it yet still in the void of no-thingness

This practice prescribes
That as bliss continues to rise
Let it be in the void of emptiness
Energised by Gods lovingness

Thought rested we hold our attention
Within the void as our meditation

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-36/112

Consider any object or person
Vaporising shape & attribute till undone
Holding attention still in formlessness
Our viewing thus as God consciousness

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-37/112

Barren land and distant horizon
We simply look without any opinion
Go on looking
Meditating
The barrenness
No-thingness

Light dawns!

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-38/112

We take two different objects
Our perception cognitively detects
First we may allow attention to oscillate
Then in single pointedness we meditate

It is simple
As also subtle

We go into the gap of shifting attention
Which wavers between the two objects in oscillation
Freezing the moment of release in between attention cognition
Just at the moment of shift but before the new cognitive connection
Meaning thereby neither of the objects are in focus
The gap stretched thus becomes our unwavering locus

We may choose any variation
Such as the gap in thought or breath cessation
The pause is when we release one intending to go to the other
We complete the release but do not actually move further
Thereby getting into the gap
Where we hear the sound of one hand clap

The centreless centre
Is where Shiva enters

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-39/112

This practice agrees that God being omnipresent
He must reside in each pulse to which we are sentient

Thereby we focus attention on any object
We are looking and so we are the subject

In unwavering focus subject & object merge
The unified field manifesting an awareness surge

Where we remain

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-40/112

This practice an affirmation with this story
“I Am Shiva and the whole Universe is My glory”

We hold our attention unwavering with this belief
Until Shiva ignites our heart giving us relief

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-41/112

Observing breath without regulating
In nonchalance simply looking ...
We mentally pause at the moment of exhalation
The zone of breath polarity rotation ...
The void of cessation in focus between eyebrows
Is where we melt away and the void furrow

With pure intention
For divine connection

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-42/112

This meditation
Is the recognition
That we are bliss luminescent
Within. In stillness to it sentient

Our recognition
Without doubt or hesitation
We simply know
And so flow

Aglow

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-43/112

Here we view a contradiction of emotion
The interplay within our being interwoven
Tickled in the armpits
We burst into laughter in fits
Yet the laughter compelling
Is disconcerting
We should cry but we laugh
Is it then a sensory gaffe

The practice asks us to go to the core
The very source of our laughter galore
It is in the flow of the void of bliss
Self self illumined as the elixirous fizz

Laughter meditation
Joyful bubbling elation
In slow motion cognition

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@ D ~ these are my interpretations or let’s say, my understanding of the VBT 112 meditations expounded by Swami Lakshmanjoo. It’s worthwhile reading the book yourself (refer opening post)

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-44/112

Conventionally in breath based meditation
We watch breath and then quieten attention
This practice presupposes we abide in stillness slow
Our orientation still & silent watching our breath flow

Meditation as thought free stillness a counsel superfluous
Enabling cognition of slow motion Krama mudra continuous

We have three kundalinis to keep in our view spherical
Pranic, void like awareness & consciousness universal

As the three merge in singularity one with our breathing
We simply look on in quietude imbibing bliss enlivening

The bliss movement is slow like an ant slowly creeping
Essentially soma nectar through hidden nadis moving
The movement is from root to crown
In ineffable bliss we choose to drown

Within

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-45/112

This practice involving copulation seems taboo
Whilst all it asks of us to unendingly renew
Cessation of action just at the point of fructification
Purity of intent choosing instead kundalini ascension

Or if the act ends in orgasmic climax of union
Breath should be retained within in celebration

No exhalation

For the puritans the practice asks for cessation
Between the urge to act and it’s actual culmination
In an aspect meditative
Intuitive
The pause between cognition and association ...
The gap between memory recollection & anticipation ...

Disclaimer:

Such is the practice in the scriptures so written
If it does not resonate we needn’t do as bidden
Why on this meditation alone dwell
When we can choose from one hundred & twelve

And yet if we would know the truth stark
We should walk without fear in the dark

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-46/112

Let us take any act that gives us pleasure
Sex, food & drink, theatre, friends or solitude
Let us partake of it in boundless measure
Recognising Shiva as the enjoyer of plenitude

Lovers caress
Sexual climax
What is the source of the bliss
That pulsates within as it manifests

Likewise with our lover reunion
After years of separation
The longing ache that arises
What is the root of its surprises

This practice asks that we meld our awareness
At the very beginning of surge of blissfulness

Vaporising therein

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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Practice-47/112

We extrapolate practice 46 to encompass any pleasure
Which we yearn for and attain and wish to capture
Be it food or drink or the sunset
A tranquil blissful calm we never forget

Imagine that Lord Shiva is the enjoyer
Of our earth bound pleasure

Meditate thus ... unendingly