meditation 16

Intone the mystical sound

A U M . . .

Raising the tone softly

and slowly

as you pass from A

to U

and from U

to M . . .

and then letting the sound merge

in the fourth stage,

the Void . . .

Thus attain

energy beyond Void . . .

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This is Verse 39.

Swami Lakshmanjoo and Pandit Dina Nath Muju's translation is as follows:

Verse 39

Intone the mysticl sound Aum raising your sound softly and slowly as you pass from A to U and from U to M and then let the sound merge into the fourth stage – the Void. Thus attain Energy beyond Void.

Please refer to Swami Lakshmanjoo's detailed commentary on this verse in his Manual for Self Realization (John Hughes, ed.).

Please consider that not every mantra is suitable for everyone. Whereas some mantras are suitable and life-supporting for an active, householder way of life, others and suitable and life-supporting for renunciates.

Therefore, please consult with an enlightened master.

To enable his commentary on this scripture to endure down through the ages, Swami Lakshmanjoo left it in two other forms:

(i) a series of videos gracing each verse, which over a few years, John Hughes of the Lakshmanjoo Academy recorded, and

(ii) Swami Lakshmanjoo's textual embodiment of the tapes, The Manual for Self-Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (edited by John Hughes).

Both are treasures! In each, Swamiji comments on the scripture while responding to questions from his students. Swamiji emphasizes that the video version transmits his teaching with a higher level of fidelity.