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Shiva Sutras

Vasugupta · 77 sutras in three ways, explained

77 readings

The Self and Its Bonds · 1.1–1.4 · Śāmbhavopāya

• The Self Is Awareness · Shiva Sutras 1.1
• Knowing That Binds · Shiva Sutras 1.2
• Body Made of Parts · Shiva Sutras 1.3
• Letters Beneath Every Thought · Shiva Sutras 1.4

Bhairava Rises · 1.5–1.7 · Śāmbhavopāya

• The Upsurge of Awareness · Shiva Sutras 1.5
• The Universe Folds Back · Shiva Sutras 1.6
• The Fourth Among Three States · Shiva Sutras 1.7

Waking, Dream, Sleep · 1.8–1.11 · Śāmbhavopāya

• Waking Is Knowing · Shiva Sutras 1.8
• Dream Made of Thoughts · Shiva Sutras 1.9
• Sleep Without Seeing · Shiva Sutras 1.10
• Tasting All Three · Shiva Sutras 1.11

The Yogi's Ground · 1.12–1.16 · Śāmbhavopāya

• Wonder as Ground · Shiva Sutras 1.12
• The Maiden Will · Shiva Sutras 1.13
• The Body Seen · Shiva Sutras 1.14
• Mind Meeting the Heart · Shiva Sutras 1.15
• Joining the pure principle · Shiva Sutras 1.16

Knowledge and Bliss · 1.17–1.22 · Śāmbhavopāya

• Reflection Is Self-Knowledge · Shiva Sutras 1.17
• Joy Found in Seeing · Shiva Sutras 1.18
• A Body Made by Will · Shiva Sutras 1.19
• Joining and Parting Elements · Shiva Sutras 1.20
• Pure Knowing and Mastery · Shiva Sutras 1.21
• The Great Lake · Shiva Sutras 1.22

Mind Is Mantra · 2.1–2.3 · Śāktopāya

• The mind itself as mantra · Shiva Sutras 2.1
• Effort as the practitioner · Shiva Sutras 2.2
• Knowing as the body · Shiva Sutras 2.3

The Guru and the Wheel of Letters · 2.4–2.7 · Śāktopāya

• Opening Within the Womb · Shiva Sutras 2.4
• Knowing Rising Unforced · Shiva Sutras 2.5
• The Teacher as Way · Shiva Sutras 2.6
• The Wheel of Letters · Shiva Sutras 2.7

Body as Offering · 2.8–2.10 · Śāktopāya

• The Body Offered · Shiva Sutras 2.8
• Knowing as Food · Shiva Sutras 2.9
• When Clarity Dims · Shiva Sutras 2.10

Mind, Bondage, Māyā · 3.1–3.6 · Āṇavopāya

• The Self as Mind · Shiva Sutras 3.1
• Knowing That Binds · Shiva Sutras 3.2
• Not Telling Apart · Shiva Sutras 3.3
• Gathering the Body Back · Shiva Sutras 3.4
• Mastering the body's elements · Shiva Sutras 3.5
• Gain under a veil · Shiva Sutras 3.6

The Dancer and the Stage · 3.7–3.13 · Āṇavopāya

• Conquering Delusion's Spread · Shiva Sutras 3.7
• Waking as Second Hand · Shiva Sutras 3.8
• The Self as Dancer · Shiva Sutras 3.9
• Inner Stage · Shiva Sutras 3.10
• The Senses Watch · Shiva Sutras 3.11
• Clear Mind, True Being · Shiva Sutras 3.12
• Freedom Fully Arrived · Shiva Sutras 3.13

Seat, Breath, Senses · 3.14–3.22 · Āṇavopāya

• As There, So Elsewhere · Shiva Sutras 3.14
• Attention to the Seed · Shiva Sutras 3.15
• Settled, Then the Plunge · Shiva Sutras 3.16
• Made From Oneself · Shiva Sutras 3.17
• Unperishing Knowing, Ending Birth · Shiva Sutras 3.18
• Mothers of the Bound · Shiva Sutras 3.19
• Oil Poured Over Three · Shiva Sutras 3.20
• Diving In With Your Own Mind · Shiva Sutras 3.21
• Even Seeing in Breath · Shiva Sutras 3.22

Freedom in the Body · 3.23–3.33 · Āṇavopāya

• The Slip in the Middle · Shiva Sutras 3.23
• Rejoining Knower and Known · Shiva Sutras 3.24
• Equal to Shiva, Still Embodied · Shiva Sutras 3.25
• Daily Acts as the Vow · Shiva Sutras 3.26
• Talk Is Japa · Shiva Sutras 3.27
• Giving Is Self-Knowing · Shiva Sutras 3.28
• Master of the Circle · Shiva Sutras 3.29
• The World Gathered Power · Shiva Sutras 3.30
• Abiding and Dissolving · Shiva Sutras 3.31
• The Knower Within Action · Shiva Sutras 3.32
• Pleasure and Pain, Seen Outside · Shiva Sutras 3.33

Beyond Pleasure and Pain · 3.34–3.40 · Āṇavopāya

• Freed, and Whole Alone · Shiva Sutras 3.34
• The Self Made of Deeds · Shiva Sutras 3.35
• Another World Made · Shiva Sutras 3.36
• Dreams Show the Power · Shiva Sutras 3.37
• Life Within Every State · Shiva Sutras 3.38
• Poise Carried Outward · Shiva Sutras 3.39
• Craving and the Drift · Shiva Sutras 3.40

The Liberated One · 3.41–3.45 · Āṇavopāya

• When the Small Self Wears Away · Shiva Sutras 3.41
• Wearing the Elements Lightly · Shiva Sutras 3.42
• Breath Belongs to Nature · Shiva Sutras 3.43
• Gathering Into the Middle · Shiva Sutras 3.44
• The Closing Once More · Shiva Sutras 3.45

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