This course covers all 160 verses of the fifth chapter of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka .

For the background on this text and its relationship to the larger topic of Kashmir Shaivism, please see the Program Overview on this site.  You may also like to listen to the free course on Locating Trika, which provides historical overview.

Overview of Chapter Five: 
The Individual Means (āṇavopāya)
Meditation by Means of the Intellect (buddhidhyāna) – verse 19-42
The Utterance through the Principle of the Vital Breath (prāṇatattvasamuccāra) – verse 43-51
The Utterance from the Heart – verse 52ab-74ab
Entry into the Supreme Principle  (paratattvāntaḥpraveśa) – verse 74cd-86ab
Entry into the Supreme Plane of Mantras – verse 86cd-89ab
The Ten Voids – verse 90-93ab
The Ten States and their Locations – verse 93cd-94
The Ten Abodes – verse 94cd-100ab
The Characteristic Signs on the Path  (pathalakṣaṇāni) – verse 100cd-112ab
The Trika Liṅga – verse 112cd-127
The Instruments of Yoga (karaṇa) – verse 128ab-131ab
The True Nature of the Phonemes (varṇatattva) – verse 131cd-139
Varṇa — Three Seed-syllable Mantras – verse 140-141
SAUḤ – verse 142-145
The seed syllable KHPHREṀ – verse 146-159ab

Course materials:

• PDF of Chapter 5, translated by Dr. Mark Dyczkowski, printed in the original Sanskrit (both Devanagari script and transliterated to English), and English translation.

• Streaming videos of Dr. Dyczkowski teachings-not downloadable.

• Audio links—downloadable.

• Email support: If you have questions of a more personal or individualized nature, concerns about the course, or complex intellectual questions that go beyond the scope of the Facebook group, please email anuttaratrikakula3@gmail.com, and we will respond to your question confidentially and appropriately.  For more advanced intellectual or content-related matters, we will forward your question to Dr. Dyckzowski to respond to you directly.