Athah Commencement

Vijnana Bhairava

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He who is the giver of fearlessness to those who are afraid, the cause of the lamentation of worldly fear, the fire in the heart, the famous Lord of those who desire the fierce Bhairava the Terrible/The Transcendent Aspect of Shiva, the destroyer of Death,
He who is the Lord of the host of his own yogis who meditate on the "Fierce" referring to Bhairava, he who performs the acts of sustenance and so on in the universe, may he, whose form is pure Consciousness, be victorious. Verse 1

I take refuge in the Goddess Shiva here, the feminine power of Shiva, who reveals the absorption into Shambhava the state of Shiva through the arising of the Self, illuminating [the universe] by the radiations of her own free, pure brilliance, following the path of the atomic and others. Verse 2

Victorious is the succession of clouds that is the Guru's speech, which extinguishes incomparable heat and sprinkles the fields of the disciples' minds with the nectar of sacred tradition. Verse 3

Let this supreme nectar, which is churned from the ocean of supreme scriptures by the Mandara mountain of wisdom, be incessantly savored by the virtuous, who are purified by supreme energy, in order to attain the state of living-Shiva. Verse 4

Here, the glorious Consciousness-Bhairava, on the canvas of the manifestation of supreme energy, which is of the nature of the reflection of the fullness of the 'I' purnaham-vimarsa the perfect awareness of the Self as the Whole, unfolds...

Footnote: In some manuscripts, the reading is "bhasitarchadyupaya" (the means of illumination and offering).