Description
Book SynopsisThe first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, the practical yogini path to enlightenment. Written in the 8th century by the sage Matsyendranatha, the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra records the secret erotic and magical practices of the Yogini Kaula tradition, a tradition focused on practical methods for attaining enlightenment. Although the text contains roughly 60 practices, it was written in a “twilight language” that obscures the secret principles that make the techniques work. It is the role of a master to awaken the initiate to the esoteric meaning of the practices within the text.
Revealing the practices and secret principles of Kaula Tantra with permission from his Himalayan tantric yogini master Lalita Devi, Daniel Odier explains each erotic and magical technique of Kaula in depth. Providing a complete translation of the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra from Sanskrit, he connects each practice to the text by Matsyendranatha and offers vivid stories of his initiation into the practices. He explores techniques from the complete mystical method that the yogini have been transmitting directly for millennia, such as how to open the nadis, the body’s energy channels. He details Kaula techniques for acquiring siddhis—magical powers such as the ability to hear far away things or appear in several places at once—as well as sacred protection and black magic practices.
The author explains how the Kaula practices are related to the 8 Red Goddesses, who can each be found within the 8 chakras and each represent a different aspect of the Royal Path of Shakti. He shares a system of illuminating visualisations to integrate the body of the practitioner with vibration (
spanda) and consciousness until there is no difference between the inner world and the cosmos.
Presenting the first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, Odier details the practical yogini path to enlightenment and offers a direct transmission through the liberating power of the written word.
Trade Review“The illuminating visualizations give readers a viable spiritual path to face and overcome disease, difficulties, and even death and to truly taste the amrita of the Kaulas. This wondrous book is a sacred invitation into divine embodiment of the Kaula yogini mysteries of the cosmos. A must-read and invaluable guide of never-before-revealed ancient yogini wisdom.” * Laura K. Amazzone, author of Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power *
Table of ContentsPART I Practices
Practice 1 The Emergence of Tattvas
Practice 2 The Body on Fire
Practice 3 The Five Elements
Practice 4 The Lingam as Pure Consciousness
Practice 5 The Dancing Flames of the Nadis
Practice 6 Luminous Shakti
Practice 7 The Hive
Practice 8 The Garland of Letters
Practice 9 Asceticism and Pleasuring
Practice 10 Lunar Nectar
Practice 11 The Three Moons
Practice 12 The Flux of Lunar Nectar in the Chakras
Practice 13 The Flood Divine
Practice 14 The Chakras
Practice 15 Lineage Yoga
Practice 16 Amrita, the Divine Nectar
Practice 17 The Color Black
Practice 18 The Lunar River
Practice 19 The Sahaja Mothers, the Heart Practice of the Yoginis
Practice 20 The Eight Chakras
Practice 21 The Eight Red Goddesses and the Chakras
Practice 22 Eternal Substances
Practice 23 Dietary Prescriptions
Practice 24 Freedom
Practice 25 Hamsa
Practice 26 Samadhi of the Heart and the Rainbow Body
Practice 27 The Throat and the God of Love
Practice 28 Sweating Milk
Practice 29 Breathing and the Nose Chakra
Practice 30 The World in Oneself
Practice 31 Not Water, Not Fire, Not Earth, Not Air, Not Ether
Practice 32 The Colored Spheres
Practice 33 The Worship of Devi
Practice 34 Orgasmic Pleasuring and the Wheels
Practice 35 The Skulls Practice
Practice 36 Kaliki Yogini
Practice 37 The Subtle Centers
Practice 38 Vatuka, Protector of the Teachings
Practice 39 The Music of the Infinite Body
Practice 40 The Yoga of Looking with Your Skin
Practice 41 Worship of the Kaula Shakti
Practice 42 Shakti’s Animal Forms
Practice 43 The Dance of the Red Yoginis
PART II
The Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra Patala One
Patala Two
Patala Three
Patala Four
Patala Five
Patala Six
Patala Seven
Patala Eight
Patala Nine
Patala Ten
Patala Eleven
Patala Twelve
Patala Thirteen
Patala Fourteen
Patala Fifteen
Patala Sixteen
Patala Seventeen
Patala Eighteen
Patala Nineteen
Patala Twenty
Patala Twenty-One
Patala Twenty-Two
Patala Twenty-Three
Patala Twenty-Four
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
