"Kashmir Saivism" refers to monistic Hindu Saiva traditions which developed from the 9th to 11th centuries B.C. This book places the idea of the "body" in the Saiva world of religious meaning by showing how Siva, equated with pure consciousness, is thought to become embodied in the universe through a process of emanation. The text seeks to show the importance of the body - thought to contain pure consciousness, and the cosmos, in the yogic and ritual paths of transformation; these paths lead the monistic Saiva to the recognition of his identity with supreme consciousness and the awareness that his body is coterminous with the universe.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 General Aims 1
2 A Note on Methodology 6
3 The Sources of the Monistic Traditions of Kashmir 7
4 A Summary of Contents 15
Ch. 1 The Extensible Body
1 The Body and the Contraction of Consciousness 27
2 The Ambiguity of the Absolute and of Manifestation 32
3 Levels of Explanation 44
Ch. 2 Structures of Manifestation
1 Coagulation, Manifestation and Reflection 55
2 Manifestation and Causation 66
3 The Principle of Polarity 74
Ch. 3 The Embodied Cosmos
1 The Two Bodies of Paramasiva 85
2 The Essential Cosmic Body 94
3 The Manifest Cosmic Body 102
4 The Ambiguity of the Body 104
5 The Collective Body 110
Ch. 4 Collective Embodiment
1 The Universe of Shared Realities 119
2 The Shared Reality as a Cosmic Region 122
3 The Shared Reality as a Body of Sound 135
4 The Shared Reality as a Wheel of Power 140
5 The Shared Reality as a Sphere of a Deity's Power 155
Ch. 5 Structures of the Body
1 The Location of the Body 159
2 The Body as a Product of Maya 161
3 The Body as the Result of Karma 168
4 The Structure of the Body 175
5 Homology or Cosmical Recapitulation 184
Ch. 6 The Body of Tradition
1 The Body of the Trika Tradition 191
2 The Universe of Symbolic Forms 203
3 The Guru as a Symbolic Form 208
4 Mantra as a Symbolic Form 215
5 Initiation as a Symbolic Form 220
Ch. 7 Transforming Paths
1 Tradition Embodied 229
2 Liturgy and Yoga as Means of Transformation 233
3 The Purification of the Body in Yoga 237
4 The Control of the Body in Asana and Mudra 241
5 The Four Ways 245
6 The Power of Kundalini 256
Ch. 8 Transformative Liturgies
1 The Two Liturgical Systems 269
2 The Tantraprakriya 271
3 The Kulaprakriya 281
4 The Transmission of Power and the Transformation of Desire 283
5 The Secret Sacrifice 295
Appendix 1 Saiva Cosmology 303
Appendix 2 The Dehasthadevatacakrastotra 305
Notes
Notes to the Introduction 311
Notes to Chapter 1 317
Notes to Chapter 2 323
Notes to Chapter 3 329
Notes to Chapter 4 335
Notes to Chapter 5 341
Notes to Chapter 6 349
Notes to Chapter 7 363
Notes to Chapter 8 377
Abbreviations 391
Bibliography 393
Index of Terms and Deities 435
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