Kaula Upanishad

[Guest guest]

Well, I found the Kaula Upanishad.

This actually looks like a good site.

Lots of different tantra related topics.

 

The Kaula Upanishad Upanishad of the Kaula sect of Tantra. The Kaulas based

their precepts on this work - condemn not others - and even faulty argument may

be valid, meaning that just because someone doesn't express an argument well,

it doesn't mean she or he isn't right! This file is available in English

translation as kaula.pdf, as well as in a Sanskrit iTrans version, kaula.txt

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/texts.htm

 

 

 

 

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/ftp/kaula.pdf

The Kaula Upanishad

 

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/ftp/

directory of tantra

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

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Kaula Upanishad is NOT the foundation of Kula-system in fact. Just one

of lesser texts of it, not more. Also with all respects to Mike Magee

i may argue that his translation is not accurate. I provide here my

own (which is not perfect also but i hope more close to original

meaning). I will be happy to get any reviews and corrections from

those who know sanskrit and are initiated into kaula tradition.

 

 

Kaula Upanishad

(translated from Sanskrit by Arjuna Taradasa, 2004)

 

1. Let the kaulika be graceful to us! Let Varuni bless us! Let shuddhi

(pancha-makara) be beneficial to us! Let Agni bless us! Let all

existence be joy for us!

Hail to Brahman! Hail to Earth! Hail to Water! Hail to Fire! Hail to

Air! Hail to Masters!

 

2. Thou art He indeed! Thou art true!

I shall speak about Her.

I shall announce the Law (R^ita). I shall speak the Truth.

 

3. Let That [Law] protect me! Let That [Law] protect the one who

announces [it]!

Protect me! Protect the one who announces!

Om. Peace, peace, peace.

 

4. Now is the investigation into the Law (dharma).

Knowledge is the right logic (buddhi). Knowledge is the only cause of

liberation. Liberation is total perfection of the Self.

Five objects [form] the universe. They [all are] forms of Knowledge.

Union is liberation.

 

5. Ignorance [that is] the cause of adharma is equal to Knowledge.

The universe is equal to the Lord (Ishvara). Temporary is equal to

eternal. Ignorance is equal to Knowledge. Adharma is equal to dharma.

This is liberation.

 

6. Five limitations are forms of Knowledge. Creation is from body.

Liberation also in it. This is the Knowledge.

Amid all sense organs the eye is essential.

You have to act against [social] dharma. No need to perform actions

prescribed by [social] dharma.

It is needed to live in shambhavi totally.

 

7. There is no [entire] knowledge present in traditions (AmnAya),

[but] only in Guru [it is present].

Above the intellect is the unity of everything. Perfection is

achieved through mantra and release from proud and other [qualities

of ego].

 

8. This is not to be disclosed. This is not to be spoken with animals

(pashu) about.

The absence of method is the Path. Do not make distinctions.

Do not reveal the mystery of the Self; but to disciple you may.

 

9. Shakta inside, shaiva outside, vaishnava in the world. This is to

be followed. Liberation is achieved through the knowledge of the Self.

 

10. Do not be offended with what society speaks. This is the merging

in the Self.

Do not subdue yourself to religious vows. Never limit yourself.

Liberation is never [achieved by means] of limitation.

Do not [make yourself] known as a kaula.

Be equal to all things. Thus the kaula is liberated.

 

11. Let the wise, being awake, read these verses. The perfection of

Will is achieved through this. This is the Will of Divine.

 

12. Let the one, who follows the Path not, never perform the

adoration [of Kula].

If you do not imagine yourself to be important, you enjoy in the

garden of bliss.

 

Let the kaulika be graceful to us!

Om. Peace, peace, peace.

 

Kaula Upanishad is complete.

[Guest guest]

Namste Arjuna ,

 

Thank you.

 

Jai Maa!!!

 

Arjuna Taradasa <bhagatirtha wrote:

 

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Kaula Upanishad is NOT the foundation of Kula-system in fact. Just one

of lesser texts of it, not more. Also with all respects to Mike Magee

i may argue that his translation is not accurate. I provide here my

own (which is not perfect also but i hope more close to original

meaning). I will be happy to get any reviews and corrections from

those who know sanskrit and are initiated into kaula tradition.

 

 

Kaula Upanishad

(translated from Sanskrit by Arjuna Taradasa, 2004)

 

1. Let the kaulika be graceful to us! Let Varuni bless us! Let shuddhi

(pancha-makara) be beneficial to us! Let Agni bless us! Let all

existence be joy for us!

Hail to Brahman! Hail to Earth! Hail to Water! Hail to Fire! Hail to

Air! Hail to Masters!

 

2. Thou art He indeed! Thou art true!

I shall speak about Her.

I shall announce the Law (R^ita). I shall speak the Truth.

 

3. Let That [Law] protect me! Let That [Law] protect the one who

announces [it]!

Protect me! Protect the one who announces!

Om. Peace, peace, peace.

 

4. Now is the investigation into the Law (dharma).

Knowledge is the right logic (buddhi). Knowledge is the only cause of

liberation. Liberation is total perfection of the Self.

Five objects [form] the universe. They [all are] forms of Knowledge.

Union is liberation.

 

5. Ignorance [that is] the cause of adharma is equal to Knowledge.

The universe is equal to the Lord (Ishvara). Temporary is equal to

eternal. Ignorance is equal to Knowledge. Adharma is equal to dharma.

This is liberation.

 

6. Five limitations are forms of Knowledge. Creation is from body.

Liberation also in it. This is the Knowledge.

Amid all sense organs the eye is essential.

You have to act against [social] dharma. No need to perform actions

prescribed by [social] dharma.

It is needed to live in shambhavi totally.

 

7. There is no [entire] knowledge present in traditions (AmnAya),

[but] only in Guru [it is present].

Above the intellect is the unity of everything. Perfection is

achieved through mantra and release from proud and other [qualities

of ego].

 

8. This is not to be disclosed. This is not to be spoken with animals

(pashu) about.

The absence of method is the Path. Do not make distinctions.

Do not reveal the mystery of the Self; but to disciple you may.

 

9. Shakta inside, shaiva outside, vaishnava in the world. This is to

be followed. Liberation is achieved through the knowledge of the Self.

 

10. Do not be offended with what society speaks. This is the merging

in the Self.

Do not subdue yourself to religious vows. Never limit yourself.

Liberation is never [achieved by means] of limitation.

Do not [make yourself] known as a kaula.

Be equal to all things. Thus the kaula is liberated.

 

11. Let the wise, being awake, read these verses. The perfection of

Will is achieved through this. This is the Will of Divine.

 

12. Let the one, who follows the Path not, never perform the

adoration [of Kula].

If you do not imagine yourself to be important, you enjoy in the

garden of bliss.

 

Let the kaulika be graceful to us!

Om. Peace, peace, peace.

 

Kaula Upanishad is complete.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

It is my understanding that Mike Magee is Sri Lokanatha Maharaja,

whose Guru is Sri Paramahamsa Mahendranatha.

 

Mahendranath (Dadaji), the 23rd Adiguru of the Adinathas, was born in

London in April 1911, died 1992. From his early youth he had a deep

interest in the spiritual systems of the world and in his twenties

knew Aleister Crowley, meeting him after the infamous Justice Swift

libel case. Crowley advised the young seeker to learn about the

patterns of the East. But the Spanish Civil War, in which Dadaji

fought in the International Brigade, and then the second world war,

intervened. It was 1949 before he left the shores of Britain to

arrive penniless in Bombay. Here he was introduced to his guru in the

Natha tradition and initiated as a sadhu. For the next 30 years

Dadaji wandered south east Asia as a penniless sannyasi. His travels

took him to Bhutan where he received initiation as a lama of the

Kargyupta Sect; Malaysia, where he became a Taoist priest and studied

the I Ching; Ceylon where he was for a time a bhikkhu of Theravada

Buddhism; and Thailand where he lived as a hermit.

 

He was also initiated into the Uttara Kaula tantrik sect and the

Sahajiya cult of Varanasi.

 

While there are some small errors in Lokanatha's translation of the

Kaula Upanisada, it seems to me that the meanings remain unaltered

and that his interpretation is sound. And the lines of this brief

Upanisada are surely a wonderfully concise and accurate statement of

the essential philosophy of the Kula system (i.e. Kaula Vidya). If

the Kaula's did not actually "base their precepts on this work", it

yet remains one of the most fundamental statements of the Kaula's

preceptual base.

 

The existence of a Kaula Upanisada is necessary for the "orthodox

validation" of Kaula Vidya, and like other tantrik sects (who are all

comparative latecomers in the scheme of Hinduism) the Kaulas may have

composed this Upanisada after the fact. Although this is not

necessarily the case. So what is it that leads you to characterize

this fine Upanisada as no more than a "lesser" text of the Kula?

The Kaula Upanisada is complete!

 

OM Santi Santi Santi.