Sublime

Our human consciousness contains both polarities: each one of us is both witness and player. But our lived experience is almost entirely an experience of Shakti. Shiva is the subtle field within which Shakti plays, but she is the power that lives you. As the sage Shankara discovered, your very life-force is Shakti. Quite literally, whatever you see

All human beings are part of our own Self. All creatures are but different forms of who we are. They are like the different leaves and branches of the tree of consciousness.

Among them, I recommend Pandit’s Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism for the new student. More yogic works are Swami Lakshmanjoo’s Self Realisation and The Secret Supreme, Swami Chetanananda’s Dynamic Stillness I and II, and, of course, Siddha Meditation by Swami Muktananda.