Quote from The Manual for Self-Realization

The Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

 by Swami Lakshmanjoo

Lakshmanjoo Academy, Culver City, California, 2015.    314 pages

When you are just in a concentrative mood - that is being in the organic world, without the recitation of mantra, without breathing exercises - that is saktopaya. When you are maintaining awareness in thought-lessness, that is sambhavopaya (superior, supreme). In anavopaya you have to put the adjustment of other sources also: sources of breath, sources of mind - everything is there. This is anavopaya. In saktopaya, there is only mind, the functioning of the mind. In sambhavopaya, there is not mind also. In sambhava you have to discard the functioning of the mind. It is not mind, it is just to dive in the un-minded state. That is sambhavopaya. If you put only the mind, not other sources, that will be saktopaya. If you put adjustment of the breath, adjustment of a mantra, adjustment of all those things (worship, puja) that is anavopaya.  (p. 2)

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