Sublime

26Uninterrupted discriminative discernment is the method for its removal. This is called viveka in Sanskrit. You try to understand and see the permanent aspect in everything and ignore the impermanent aspect.

‘What actually exists is only ātma-svarūpa [the real nature of oneself]’. What he implies by this is that nothing other than ourself actually exists, so all other things are just an illusory appearance.

Many Śrīvidyā adepts don’t strictly identify themselves as Vedik or Tāntrik, being comfortable with seamlessly incorporating the various philosophies in their personal sādhanā. In fact, the LSN describes Devī as the embodiment of both the Vedas (see N539) and the Tantras (see N724).

Nagarjuna’s method is simply to show that all things are without “self-nature” (svabhava) or independent reality since they exist only in relation to other things. Nothing in the universe can stand by itself–no thing, no fact, no being, no event—and for this reason it is absurd to single anything out as the ideal to be grasped. For what is singled