Tantraloka The Light On And Of The Tantras Volume Ten Volume Ten Chapters Twenty Eight And Twentynine With The Commentary Called Viveka By Translated With Extensive Explanatory Notes Mark Dyczkowski by Mark Dyczkowski 9798852285867, 8852285865 instant download after payment.

Volume ten contains the following two chapters. The previous chapters from fifteen onwards were concerned with obligatory (nitya) rites for those who belong or wish to belong to the Trika Śaiva tradition. The rites that follow from here onwards are occasional (nimittika) in the sense that they only take place at certain times in particular circumstances such as festivals and days of atonement. Accordingly, the first part of chapter twenty-eight (up to verse 59) is concerned with listing these sacred times (parvan) and the rites that are performed then. Foremost amongst them, are those that take place on the occasions when initiates and their teachers assemble to worship together (60cd-111). This is called Aadiyāga – the Foremost Sacrifice, which Abhinava stresses is considered to be the most elevated by the Trika Tantras. Abhinava goes on to outline the manner of crafting and offering of a sacred thread to the deity as a rite of atonement (112-186ab) and other occasional rites (186cd-212) such as the celebrations of the teacher’s birth and death day (213-216). This is followed by a series of rites and yogic practices related to the moment of voluntary death, the spiritual status of the initiate at that time as well as places and occasions for it to take place (217-367). After briefly returning to the rites concerning the assembly of Yoginīs and initiates, the chapter ends with the procedures for the explanation of the scriptures (vyākhyāvidhiḥ) (385cd-407), the expiation of transgressions (408-423ab) and the worship of the teacher (gurupūjāvidhi) (423cd-435).

Chapter twenty-nine is notorious for teaching Kaula ritual involving the offering of meat, wine and sexual fluids to the Goddess (kaulikīśakti), alone (ekavīrā) or with her partner in union (yāmalabhāva). The rites presented up to chapter twenty-eight are largely in the Tantric modality (tantraprakriyā), those that follow are predominantly in the Kaula one (kulaprakriyā)...