{"product_id":"kaulavali-nirnaya-ebook","title":"Kaulavali-Nirnaya – The Essential Compendium of the Kaula Tradition (Ebook: Sanskrit with English Introduction)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003ch5 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDigital Ebook (PDF) — Tantrik Texts Series, Volume XIV: The Sanskrit Text with an English Introduction by Arthur Avalon\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eText \/ Tradition: Kaulāvalī-Nirṇaya (Kaulavali, a major compendium of the Kaula school of Tantra) | Composed by Jnanananda Paramahamsa | Edited by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) | Tantrik Texts Series Vol. XIV, Agamanusandhana Samiti \/ Sanskrit Press Depository, Calcutta\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Kaulavali-Nirnaya — \"The Ascertainment of the Way of the Kaulas\" - is one of the most important and comprehensive practical manuals of the Kaula tradition, presented here as Volume XIV of the celebrated Tantrik Texts series edited by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). Composed by the adept and master Jnanananda Paramahamsa, and accompanied by Avalon's illuminating English introduction, this edition makes the Sanskrit text of a foundational Kaula compendium available to scholars and practitioners alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA substantial work of twenty-two chapters, the Kaulavali is a true compendium, drawing together — and often expressly quoting — the authority of earlier scriptures such as the celebrated Kularnava Tantra, while always stressing the practical application of the tradition's teachings. It traces the lineage of the early Kaula gurus, and opens, like the Kularnava, with a meditation on the preciousness of human birth and the necessity of devoting one's life to the realization of the Supreme (the Tattva, the Brahman). From this foundation it unfolds, step by step, the complete discipline of the Kaula sadhaka.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAcross its chapters the text sets forth the daily observances and purificatory rites — the sacred bathing with its mantras and mudras, the bhutashuddhi performed through pranayama and nyasa, the placing of the life of the deity within the body of the worshipper, and the inner offering by which all of one's acts, doubts, merits, and sins are surrendered as oblation. It treats the greatness of Kula and the characteristics of the true worshipper, the lunar, solar, and fiery kalas arising from the letters of the alphabet, the mysteries of the chakra and the awakening of the pulsating essence of Shakti, and the disciplines of purashcharana and mantra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Kaulavali is also notable for its elevated ethical vision. It condemns violence, slander, and wrongdoing, and enjoins upon the Kaula a profound reverence toward all women, who are to be looked upon as living manifestations of the Great Mother. The true Kaula, it teaches, should never speak ill of any being or of the scriptures and teachings of other faiths — conducting himself with the inward realization of Shakti while harmonizing outwardly with all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor the scholar of Sanskrit tantric literature, the serious student of the Kaula and Shakta traditions, and the admirer of Arthur Avalon's monumental work, the Kaulavali-Nirnaya is an essential and richly detailed scripture — presented here in its Sanskrit text with Avalon's English introduction in a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEbook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: PDF (digital download)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: Sanskrit text with an English introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eText: Kaulāvalī-Nirṇaya (compendium of the Kaula tradition)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Jnanananda Paramahamsa; edited with English introduction by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal Publication: Tantrik Texts Series Vol. XIV, Agamanusandhana Samiti \/ Sanskrit Press Depository, Calcutta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContent: The complete Sanskrit text with scholarly English introduction, faithfully reproduced from the classic edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal For: Scholars of Sanskrit tantric literature, students and practitioners of the Kaula and Shakta traditions, readers of Arthur Avalon \/ John Woodroffe, and collectors of the classic Tantrik Texts series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhy You'll Love It\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA foundational Kaula compendium in a single download — the Sanskrit Kaulavali-Nirnaya of Jnanananda Paramahamsa with Arthur Avalon's English introduction, a comprehensive and practical manual of Kaula sadhana gathering the authority of earlier scriptures, for the serious student and scholar of the tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOrder Now\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBring home the Kaulavali-Nirnaya, the essential compendium of the Kaula tradition, in this Sanskrit edition with Arthur Avalon's English introduction from the classic Tantrik Texts series, available exclusively at The Soma Store. 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