Spanda - part 1
Spanda - part 1 🌷 Spanda - part 1 🌷: The initial creative impulses arose as spandan or thought-vibration of the Pure Being. There appeared a universal desire to manifest, like an eternal spring, joyfully over-flowing and always poorna full. Spanda, means “divine vibration”, or divine pulse. Consciousness, at the subtlest level, moves in waves of contraction and expansion. Spanda is the creative pulse of the Absolute as it manifests into the dynamism of relative form. The sound that emanated from the vibration was AUM. Hence it is called Pranava or first sound. Spanda enters into the states of Pravratti or creation, Sthiti or maintainence and Saṁhṛti or dissolution (laya). "Pravṛtti" is to go toward external things, "Sthiti" is to maintain those very external things for a while. "Saṁhṛti" is to dissolve those things in one's own Self. 🌷 Spanda Karikas 🌷 : Spanda Karikas is a classic text of Kashmir Shaivism. "Kār...