Pratyabhijnahrdayam

The Secret of Self-Recognition

This little work is a digest of the Pratya bhijna system of Kashmir Saiva philosophy, prepared by Ksemaraja, the illustrious disciple of Abhinava gupta. It avoids all polemics and gives in a very succinct form (20 sutras) the main tenets of the Pratyabhijna presented by Utpala. Pratyabhijna means recognition. Jiva is Siva; by identifying himself with his body. Jiva is forgotten his real nature. This teaching is meant to enable Jiva to recognize his own real self i.e. Siva and to suggest to him the spiritual discipline needed to attain “at-one-ment” with SIVA.

In this book an analysis of the contents of each Sutra has also been given. Copious notes on difficult and technical words have been added and a glossary of the technical terms has also been appended at the end.

Note : Sanskrit text with English translation Notes and Introduction by Jaideva Singh.