The Śiva Sūtra (शिव सूत्र)

Chapters

• The first awakening
• The second awakening
• The third awakening

This is Vasugupta's Śiva Sūtra (शिव सूत्र), seventy-seven lines in three awakenings. The tradition places him in Kashmir and says the lines came from Śiva (शिव). The count sat here is the one Kṣemarāja (क्षेमराज)'s Śivasūtravimarśinī (शिवसूत्रविमर्शिनी) comments: twenty-two, ten, and forty-five.

Bhāskara (भास्कर)'s Vārttika (वार्त्तिक) prints one further line in the third awakening, visargasvābhāvyād abahiḥ sthites tatsthitiḥ (विसर्गस्वाभाव्यादबहिः स्थितेस् तत्स्थितिः). This book sits the seventy-seven. 3.14 names the place where that extra line would stand.

Consciousness, and the world that is its power

• 1.1 says caitanya (चैतन्य), consciousness, is the self.
• 1.14 says the seen is a body. 1.18 says the bliss of the world is the joy of samādhi (समाधि).
• 3.9 says the self is the dancer. 3.10 says the inner self is the stage. 3.11 says the senses are the spectators.
• 3.30 says the universe is the expansion of his own śakti (शक्ति).
• 1.10 and 3.3 use māyā (माया) for a failure to discriminate. 3.1 says the self is the mind, after 1.1 had said the self is consciousness. Both sentences stay.

The three means

Kṣemarāja (क्षेमराज) names the three awakenings Śāmbhavopāya (शाम्भवोपाय), Śāktopāya (शाक्तोपाय), and Āṇavopāya (आणवोपाय): the means of Śambhu (शम्भु), the means of Śakti (शक्ति), and the means of the limited one. Those names belong to the commentary. A sitting names the commentary where a line leaves a word for it. The sitting remains the sūtra (सूत्र).

The Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव) is the next book. Bhairava (भैरव) answers the Goddess there, in 162 verses, and verse 139 of that book counts the teachings as one hundred and twelve. The Spanda Kārikā (स्पन्द कारिका) and the Pratyabhijñā (प्रत्यभिज्ञा) books of Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta come after these lines in the tradition. They read the same consciousness as a pulse, spanda (स्पन्द), and as recognition, pratyabhijñā (प्रत्यभिज्ञा). This book is the seventy-seven. The word these lines give for the rising is udyama (उद्यम), at 1.5.

The Advaita pages and the Buddhist pages are the other non-dual books on this shelf. This book is Trika.

The three awakenings

• 1.1 through 1.22. Śāmbhavopāya (शाम्भवोपाय). Consciousness, bondage, the fourth state, and the powers.
• 2.1 through 2.10. Śāktopāya (शाक्तोपाय). The mind as mantra (मन्त्र), the guru, the body as the offering.
• 3.1 through 3.45. Āṇavopāya (आणवोपाय). The self as mind, the dancer, and the closing that comes again.