Kashmir Shaivism

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Hi,

 

Here's a quote I borrowed from a great scholar

quoting another... :-))

 

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A variant of the Shaivite philosophy, which

developed in Kashmir, is

known as the Pratyabhijna system. Here, as Dr.

Radhakrishnan says, Siva

is the subject as well as the object, the

experiencer as well as the

experienced.

"As the consciousness on which all this

resultant world is established, whence it issues,

is free in its nature, it cannot be restricted

anywhere. As it

moves in the differentiated states of waking,

sleeping, etc., identifying itself with them, it

never falls from its true nature as the knower."

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Om Namah Shivayah...