The Thirty-Six Cosmic Principles of Shaivism #148
Utilizing Lord Kapila’s original twenty-four tattvas as its basis, the various philosophy schools inside of the darshana of Shaivism have fashioned an umbrella of subtle principles over the top, a sort of frosting on the cake of Indian philosophy in general. But much more than a sweetening, the upper twelve tattvas cover a range that had remained hitherto unexplored by most inner travelers of the terrain of consciousness. What was revealed as a result came in the form of vibrational fields too subtle for the mind to fathom through rationale and speculation. Contact with such ultimately living principles as Ishvara and Sadasiva brought to the fore the very meaning of direct darshan with higher deities that stretched far beyond mere visualization. Even a basic study of these spandas alerts the mind to their existence, opening up close relations in the near future.
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The Three Classes of Beings According to Tantra #127
In an illumined designation reminiscent of Sri Krishna’s Bhagavad Gita teachings on the effects of the three Gunas on different classes of beings, Tantra proffers this helpful list in order to allow discerning spiritual aspirants an understanding of human nature and temperament. Though given as a guide that pertains to people who are already on the path, or who are devotees, this threefold division nevertheless applies to worldly beings as well. The animalistic, the heroic, and the divine — if mankind were to be examined under this triple lens, it would become clear how people fall into the scheme of evolution and involution, both physically and spiritually.
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The Three Eternal Gateways #132
As Vedanta, in its qualified form, states: All beings will be saved; all will see God. That is because the souls of all beings are Eternal, that is, the one Soul in all, called Atman, is perfect and indivisible, even when it seems to take many forms. In the taking of these forms, beings pass in and out of the embodied condition through channels, nadis, or gateways, as it were. This is a strictly inward process and has nothing to do with outer space. This dharma chart puts this cosmic process in terms of those who follow Truth dur ing their lifetimes, those who abandon Truth, and those who have realized their ever-perfect nature and embody to teach it to others. Two sets of four doorways are also illustrated here, so as to inform aspiring souls of the reasons for and mediums utilized via people’s choices and decisions in the rebirth process.
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The Threefold Sorrows #223
Long before the Buddha came to earth and established the Four Noble Truths around relative existence, Lord Kapila had already left behind the teaching of the Three Sorrows in Sankhya Yoga. Interestingly enough, both these great souls, who were spaced millennia apart in time, were born in the same village in India. In the case of Kapila, his Three Sorrows system has earned the mantra of “Shanti, Shanti, Shanti,” due to the thorough protection it confers upon the lovers of Divine Reality, as well as upon those who still suffer in self-actuated karmas and their limitations. This dharma chart, with its backdrop of the cremation grounds in Varanasi, acts as a reminder to all beings that “All this must pass,” to quote the Buddha, making it perfect to hang on the wall of ones home, ashram, shrine room, or monastery.
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The Twelve Higher Spandas of Shaivism #143
In early times in India, when it as called Bharat — the Eternal Land — Lord Kapila did his inner homework through intense scrutiny of all that lies both inside and outside the individual’s marvelous province. He came up with the Twenty-Four Cosmic Principles that not only effectively distilled and mapped out these two terrains of a human being’s relative consciousness, but were also borrowed by so many other systems of Cosmology and Philosophy — both inside and outside of Mother India. Shaivism was one of these, with its keen and authentic worship of Lord Siva. To the Cosmic Principles of the Sankhya system of Lord Kapila, the Shaivites added twelve deeper or higher levels of vibration, completing a grand 36 Cosmic Principle tier that opened the aspiring sadhika’s exploration of the “kingdoms of heaven within” to subtleties unknown to most seekers of Enlightenment
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The Twenty-Four Cosmic Principles #60
Lord Kapila’s ancient system of cosmic principles has been highly regarded and widely used by so many of the philosophical and religious thinkers who came after him. The first to “do his homework’ in a complete yet concise way, he managed to lay down the perameters of a comprehensive outline that covers all the main elements in the Three Worlds — gross, subtle, and causal. With all this as a guide, the process of involution is now well outlined for all seekers striving to return to their Source of Existence.
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Triloka — The Three Worlds #291
One of India’s primary and basic teachings along the dharmic trajectory is the oft-mentioned triputi of the three worlds. Usually this refers to the physical world, the elemental world, and the heavenly worlds — often termed bhur, bhuvar, and svahar in the tradition. With regard to this designation there are four deeper/higher worlds too. The three worlds grab most of the attention, however, due to them being places of strife and tension, despite their external beauty. They also form the hub of all transmigration as well. This wisdom chart expands these three into other triputis and designations, helping the seeking soul to comprehend the complex nature of all realms that it may sojourn in.
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Vedic Triputis & Quintuplications #91
If the subject of numbers has any real mystery to unfold, it is to be found in eastern cosmology, not western mathematics. It is linked mostly to triplets and quintuplications that all connect inward to philosophy, and from there to spirituality. In alambanic fashion, the awakening soul’s most important preliminary task is to take account of all that is around him/her. But unlike the ordinary soul who sees, desires, covets, grasps, then becomes attached to all that is beheld, striving to own it outright, the yogi/yogini begins to search for the connections between all outer manifestations after meditating upon on all things individually, and this is done devoid of the slightest desire to possess. The secret of connectivity, once observed arightly, lays bare the essence of any given thing, and perceiving this, the seeker is free. Thus, connectivity reveals oneness, and that the secret of oneness infills everything. Thereafter, one only has to “sit up straight” and notice.
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Viveka, Vairagya, Abhaya, & Stithi #251
Sankhya Yoga, Patanjala, and Vedanta may as well be three great footfalls which have fallen upon the sacred land of India over several millennia, each one thousand years or more apart from the other. Despite these extended periods of time, each one played off of the other in a beautifully connected and beneficial way, expressing fully matured views and realizations of spirituality that are unprecedented in the realm of world religion and philosophy — as this wisdom chart on the combination of some of their teachings portrays.
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