Vijnana Bhairava 52 53 54 Dissolving Everything Into Light

The practice of dissolving everything into light :

kālāgninā kālapadād utthitena svakam puram |
pluṣṭam vicintayed ante śāntābhāsas tadā bhavet || 52 ||
"One should visualize one's body
being burnt by the Fire of Time arising from
the big toe of the right foot.
Then at the end (of that burning), one shall be healed."

evam eva jagat sarvaṃ dagdhaṃ dhyātvā vikalpataḥ |
ananyacetasaḥ puṃsaḥ pumbhāvaḥ paramo bhavet || 53 ||
"In that very (same) way, one should contemplate the whole world
being burnt, without anything remaining (avikalpatah).
Pour the One entirely focused on that,
the One supreme state shall happen."

svadehe jagato vāpi sūkṣmasūkṣmatarāṇi ca |
tattvāni yāni nilayaṃ dhyātvānte vyajyate parā || 54 ||
"Visualizing the levels of being
dissolving away, into more and more subtle levels,
at the end the Supreme (Goddess)
will manifest clearly."

Vijnana Bhairava 49 50 51 Awareness Above the Head

Tiru Gnâna Sambandhar

The practice of dissolving awareness in the space above the head (verses 50 and 51), or in the heart (verse 49) :

hṛdyākāśe nilīnākṣaḥ padmasampuṭamadhyagaḥ |
ananyacetāḥ subhage paraṃ saubhāgyam āpnuyāt || 49 ||
"With closed eyes and attention focused
in the space of the heart,
in the middle of the two lotuses joined,
one shall get supreme happiness,o Happy One !"

sarvataḥ svaśarīrasya dvādaśānte manolayāt |
dṛḍhabuddher dṛḍhībhūtaṃ tattvalakṣyam pravartate || 50 ||
"Always dissolving attention in 
the space above the head of one's body,
for one who has stable intelligence,
stable being, the aim, shall become alive."

yathā tathā yatra tatra dvādaśānte manaḥ kṣipet ||
pratikṣaṇaṃ kṣīṇavṛtter vailakṣaṇyaṃ dinair bhavet || 51 ||
"Throwing attention above the head
in all situations, at each moment,
for the one whose mental activity is being destroyed,
the undefinable shall happen in days."

Vijnana Bhairava 46 47 48 Feeling the Body In Space

The practice of feeling space pervading the body. I am not locked down inside the body or inside anything. Rather, the body and all places are inside me, in the space of awareness :

tanūdeśe śūnyataiva kṣaṇamātraṃ vibhāvayet |
nirvikalpaṃ nirvikalpo nirvikalpasvarūpabhāk || 46 ||
"One shloud feel, just for a moment, 
that very emptiness within the body,
in an undivided manner (nirvikalpam).
Undivided shall enjoy one's undivided essence."

sarvaṃ dehagataṃ dravyaṃ viyadvyāptaṃ mṛgekṣaṇe |
vibhāvayet tatas tasya bhāvanā sā sthirā bhavet || 47 ||
"O gazelle-eyed-one ! One should feel all the substance of one's body
as being pervaded by space.
Then one's feeling shall 
become stable."

dehāntare tvagvibhāgam bhittibhūtaṃ vicintayet |
na kiṃcid antare tasya dhyāyann adhyeyabhāg bhavet || 48 ||
"One should evoke clearly that there is nothing
inside the body,
the skin being like a wall.
Seeing thus, one shall enjoy that which cannot be seen."

Vijnana Bhairava 43 44 45 Feeling Space

The practice of feeling space :

nijadehe sarvadikkaṃ yugapad bhāvayed viyat |
nirvikalpamanās tasya viyat sarvam pravartate || 43 ||
"One sould felle the sky in one's body,
in all directions and all at onece.
Having undivided attention,
all becomes alive as sky."

pṛṣṭaśūnyaṃ mūlaśūnyaṃ yugapad bhāvayec ca yaḥ |
śarīranirapekṣiṇyā śaktyā śūnyamanā bhavet || 44 ||
"One shloud feel the empty (space) above
and the empty (space) below, all at once.
Through the energy of not depending on the body,
one attention shall become empty."

pṛṣṭaśūnyaṃ mūlaśūnyaṃ hṛcchūnyam bhāvayet sthiram |
yugapan nirvikalpatvān nirvikalpodayas tataḥ || 45 ||
"One should feel clearly (sthiram) the empty (space)
above, below, in the heart, all at once.
Because one is undivided,
undivided (awareness) will rise."

Vijnana Bhairava 41 42 Awakening With Music

Shiva holding the vînâ



The practice of expanding awareness throught music :

tantryādivādyaśabdeṣu dīrgheṣu kramasaṃsthiteḥ |
ananyacetāḥ pratyante paravyomavapur bhavet || 41 ||
"By dwelling on the end of each long-sustained sound
of a string instrument or any other musical instrument,
one who doesn't pay attention to anything else
shall become one who's body is supreme space."

pindamantrasya sarvasya sthūlavarṇakrameṇa tu |
ardhendubindunādāntaḥ śūnyoccārād bhavec chivaḥ || 42 ||
"By spelling out the empty (stages of sound)
- the half-moon, the dot, the end of resonance -
following the order of the gross syllables
of any 'group' Mantra, one shall become God."

A 'group' (pinda) Mantra is, for instance, HSKPHREM, pronounced something like  "hasskaphrem".