Tripura Tattvas
In this final (for now) post on tantric tattvas, I will discuss the tattva schema given by Lakṣmīdhara, from his 16th century commentary on the Saundaryalahari (“Flood of Beauty”).
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Tantric Tattvas
“The God, whose nature is a free consciousness, whose characteristic is the supreme light, due to his own intrinsic nature and as a result of his enjoyment of the sport of concealing his own nature, becomes the atomic, finite self, of which there are many. He himself, as a result of his own freedom, binds himself here by means of actions whose nature are composed of imaginary differentiations. Such is the power of the God’s freedom that, even though he has become the finite self, he once more truly attains his own true form in all its purity.”
Abhinavagupta
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Tattvas in Saṃkhyā
This essay, originally published on the London Tantra Group wiki, is the first part of three pieces in which I attempted to make sense of the tattva schemas central to yoga and the tantric traditions.
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