Pratyabhijna 101

Pratyabhijna proposes a process of self-knowledge based on reason and common experience. Reality has two inseparable aspects: consciousness and being

The main tenets of Pratyabhijna philosophy

• Ultimate reality is non dual - Shiva contains all reality in a pure unity - One who knows that he knows (Prakasa, 'light, illumination' or 'awareness' )
• Consciousness is his nature - Shakti  is the  essential nature of awareness (recognitive judgment  vimarsa)
• All actions are by conscious free will (svatantrya) The Freedom  to obtain whatever s desired
• You are Shiva - Realization of identity with supreme (Tanmayata) is Pratyabhijna. Pratyabhijna means recognition of our true universal consciousness (Chaitanya)

The dichotomy of means (upaya) and goal (upeya) is an illusion of grossness of cognition. It is Shiva’s free will (svatantrya shakti) that  is the cause of both bondage and  liberation

Pure wisdom (suddhavidya) is the awareness that self is the source that emanates all objective reality:
“If the object did not have the nature of awareness (prakasa), it would be without illumination (aprakasa), as it was before its appearance. Awareness (prakasa)   cannot be different than the object. Awareness (prakasata) is the essential nature of the object.”

One could never experience another subject outside one's own awareness.

Translation of verses on Pratyabhijna and Kashimir Shaivism thought

I become what I desire to be – complete consciousness or limited consciousness, realized being or one who is constrained. I am neither in past nor in future – I am self illuminated, omnipresent formless being.

 
http://shivyogi.blogspot.com/2010/03/yathechaami-tatha-bhami-mahamahopadyay.html

Where you are not present? When you are not present? What is there that becomes illuminated without you? I bow to this realized state of mine as highest form of prayer

http://shivyogi.blogspot.com/2010/03/kutra-naasi-kada-naasi-mahamahopadyay.html

© Ratish