Sublime

In the tantra, the guru is not accountable to the student. He is accountable only to his own karma. Transparency is not a tantric responsibility.

Larson has long seen the classical Yoga of Patañjali as a type of “neo-Sāṅkhya,” an updating by those within the old Sāṅkhya tradition in an attempt to bring it into conversation with the more technical philosophical traditions that had emerged by the third to fifth centuries C.E., particularly the challenges represented by Buddhist thought

The Śrī-Vidyā Upāsaka should follow certain disciplines. He should not find fault with other paths or criticize them while being steadfast in his own. The practice of Japa should go on as an under-current at all times. He should not ask for favours or accept them. He should do his duties in the world and the worship of the Deity without attachment

the grosser aspects of the kleśas are eliminated by kriyā-yoga, the more subtle aspects by meditation, but, as indicated by the last sūtra, the actual burnt seeds, or residual impressions of the now impotent saṁskāras, are not completely dissolved until the mind, along with all its latent saṁskāras, merges back into its matrix at the death of the