Tuesday, March 1, 2011

From the Kularnava Tantra

"...parrots and mynah birds recite before people sacred words with delight. Are they to be regarded as great scholars from such talk?"

"Animals like pigs bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit is alike, are they Yogis thereby?"

"... such privations and self denials are only for deceiving the world while direct knowledge of truth alone is the means for liberation."

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:09 AM

    Excellent... Do you have an English translation of the entire text?

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  2. Here's Arthur Avalon's translation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36982874/Arthur-Avalon-Kularnava-Tantra

    thanks for reading! K

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