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[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Obeisance to the lord whose chest is marked by the saffron from th…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. What is the Pāśupata knowledge? How is Śiva the lord of Paśus ? Wh…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O Kṛṣṇa, listen; this universe of the mobile and immobile beings i…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Note: For the similarity of expression and contents of this chapter s…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. This universe of the mobile and immobile beings is the cosmic body…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. Śiva has no bondage due to the atoms, effects, Māyā, Prakṛti, co…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. His Śakti shall be known as natural and dissimilar to the universe…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O lord, I wish to hear about Śiva ’s knowledge expounded by Śiva…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O lord, please enumerate the incarnations of Śiva as Yogācārya and…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O lord, foremost of all Yogins, O leader of the Gaṇas, O excelle…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O goddess, I shall now succinctly mention the duties stipulated on…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O omniscient excellent sage, ocean of all knowledge, I wish to hea…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-3. O great lord, how are your devotees liberated in the defiled per…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O good-faced lady, a Japa without the behest of the preceptor, hol…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O holy lord, the greatness of the mantra has been mentioned by y…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. On an auspicious day, in a pure spot devoid of major defects, the …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Hereafter the preceptor shall perform the purification of the six …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. After completing ablution and other rites the disciple shall, at t…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Hereafter I shall explain the consecratory rite ‘ Sādhaka ’ indica…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The preceptor shall crown consecrated disciple as a preceptor afte…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O holy lord, I wish to hear the compulsory and optional rites of t…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. Nyāsa is of three types: Sthiti, Utpatti and Laya. The first is …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. I shall briefly give a commentary to the rules governing worships …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The devotee shall sprinkle the place of worship with scented sanda…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. What has not been mentioned because I was afraid of losing the seq…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. Even a slayer of brahmin, a wine-addict, a thief, a defiler of t…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. I shall mention the sacrificial rites in the fire to be performe…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Now I shall explain the procedure of rites under certain condition…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O holy lord, the compulsory and optional rites of those who depend…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. There at the outset he shall worship lords Heramba and Ṣaṇmukha on…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O Kṛṣṇa, I shall tell you the hymn whereby this holy rite of Yogeś…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O Kṛṣṇa, what has been mentioned to you is the site which yields b…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Now I shall mention the rite for the benefits attainable solely af…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The achievement of benefit that has been mentioned here from the N…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Then there manifested the single-syllabled Brahman in the characte…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O lord, I wish to hear the rules governing the installation of the…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Everything mentioned succinctly by your holiness with regard to kn…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. There are ten obstacles in the path of those who practise Yoga:—…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Some Yogins perform meditation with the full conviction that Siddh…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. After explaining to the sages, who honoured and exalted him, the p…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. There is a lake known as Skandasaras as vast as the ocean. It has …