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The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight (English and Sanskrit Edition) Paperback – August 1, 2014

Sanskrit Edition by Lorin Roche (Author), Shiva Rea (Foreword)

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The gateways to wonder and delight are flung open wide for all to enter. At once a beautiful love song and an encyclopedia of yogic techniques, the cherished text known as the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra shimmers with new effulgence in Lorin Roche's The Radiance Sutras. Lorin brings us his unique perspective on each of 112 Sanskrit teachings, along with his one-of-a-kind guidance in how to meditate with, embody, and practice them―what he describes as "answering the call of the sutras you love."

Here is an invitation to experience directly the ecstatic depths of yoga as revealed by the divine partners Shiva and Shakti, through an intimate exploration of:

The divinity that is permeating your body at this very moment
• The alchemical power of Sanskrit
• Yoga meditation―harmonizing all the elements and levels of your being
• The depths of your connection to the energies of life
Taken as a whole, this teaching is startling in its breadth and the huge range of human experience that it encompasses. This is a book to savor one phrase at a time, over a period of days or years or a lifetime. With The Radiance Sutras, yoga and meditation students everywhere can nurture their own relationship with these living wisdom teachings.

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English, Sanskrit
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Sounds True
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August 1, 2014
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6.17 x 1.12 x 9.06 inches
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9781604076592
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978-1604076592
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"Like feeling and reading Shakti in print. I read a little bit each day, then close my eyes and do the exercise, or ponder the thought. I let the warm sweet loving words and imagery wash and heal my many layers of self." - Lilias Folan

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A LANGUAGE OF LOVEA Tantra is a conversation between the Goddess Who Is the Creative Power of the Universe and the God Who Is the Consciousness that Permeates Everywhere. For short, they call each other Devi and Bhairava, or Shakti and Shiva. They are lovers and inseparable partners, and one of their favorite places of dwelling is in the human heart.The text has the feeling of one richly experienced body speaking with love to another body.Their inquiry is about how to enter into the vibrant essence of the world with the dual balance of passion and detachment. The teaching emerges from their love-play, reminding us that from within our own hearts we are educated in the spirit of love. They lived this teaching. The secret pathways in the body and the flow of delicious energies are revealed in words that one friend or lover would speak to another. The text invites us to be at home in the universe by accepting every intense experience, every sensual delight, every ordinary moment, as a gateway to the divine.The conversation begins with Devi asking, "Beloved, tell me, how do I enter more deeply into the reality of the universe?" In reply, Bhairava describes 112 techniques for becoming enlightened through everyday life experience. Each of these techniques is a way of attending to the rhythms, pulsations, and sensuousness of the divine energy that we are made of and that flows through us always. As we engage with these meditation techniques, we are alerted to the presence of the sacred that permeates our bodies. All of these methods involve savoring the incredible intensity underlying the most common experiences. They work by activating the senses, by extending the range of the senses further into the inner and the outer world. The basic dynamics of life--breathing, falling asleep, waking up, walking, loving--are all used as gateways to alignment and enlightenment.Each meditation is a deep dive into aliveness, into the underlying reality of what life is. Balance is there at every step; the unshakable serenity of the depths is used as a foundation so that we can tolerate the electrifying vastness of the universe. We are invited to cross the threshold, to walk by the guardian of the gate, to face our terrors, and make our way into the immense and timeless mystery that is always calling.Many of these meditation techniques are surprisingly informal: Notice a powerful emotion, sensation, or desire, and enter into that awareness with total abandon, so that you go with it right into the root movement of the universe. When making love, put your aware- ness into the flame of passion pulsating through the body and become that flame. Falling asleep, pay attention to the transition from waking consciousness to unconsciousness, and catch a glimpse of what con- sciousness itself is. Or go outside on a moonless night and simply merge with the darkness and vastness of space.The text also describes what we think of as traditional yoga medita- tions--ways of savoring breath, sound, and internal luminosity. The intimacy with the self implied in these teachings means that tantra is not a set of techniques imposed from outside. Rather, the method emerges naturally from one's relationship with the self and with life. Lose yourself in intense experience, and find your Self. In this text, the word yoga is used in its etymological sense, "the act of joining, linking together." Yoga is connecting--connecting all the elements and levels of your being.The tone of the text is playful and exploratory--jump in and feel everything. Lila is Sanskrit for "play," "amusement," and the sense that the universe has been manifested as an act of play by the divine. Through play, find your way. In play, find freedom, revelation, illumination.

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FOREWORD BY SHIVA REA
In your hands, you hold a treasure. The Radiance Sutras, the life-work of beloved writer and teacher
Lorin Roche, is a contemporary interpretation of the timeless, universal meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. The 112 con- templative meditations known as both yuktis and dharanas unfold as a sacred exchange between the divine masculine as Shiva, or Bhairava, and the divine feminine as Shakti, or Bhairavi. This sacred teaching was revered by the great sages of tantra, including Kshemaraja in the 11th century through this last century's yoga masters Swami Lakshman Joo, the yogini Lalita Devi, and Swami Muktananda. The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra provides a way into the universal realization of divine embodiment that is developed fully within the tantras. Universal, sensual, very human experiences such as breath- ing, tasting, seeing, waking up, sleeping, getting angry, and making love become vehicles for realizing your nature. This happens at a deep level of vibration through the living current, spanda shakti, the pulsating source of consciousness of the early Trika-Krama lineages of tantra that knew of the quantum wave long before modern physics. Lorin has brought the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra alive for a wide audience in a way similar to how Coleman Barks revived the poetry of the great Sufi teacher, Jelauddin Rumi. These poetic interpretations have brought the vibratory wisdom of the tantras to the most neglected places within Western embodiment, as Lorin breathes a rhythm and life to lan- guage through his own realization. He has opened a doorway into the tantric realization of the divya deha, the divine body, the shimmering flow of embodied consciousness manifesting as Shakti and returning to infinite potency as Shiva.
-- SHIVA REA Malibu, California August 2014

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Make yourself at home. One of the great gifts of meditation is learning how to be at home in yourself and in the world. As you come in and explore your relationship with these practices, be wel- coming and nonjudgmental toward yourself.Open embrace is the style of attention called for in most of these 112 practices. This is the opposite of concentration. The posture is that of opening your arms wide to the universe and to your inner world. Be playful. The word lila (pronounced leela) is Sanskrit for play and amusement--and the sense that the universe has been manifested as an act of play by the divine. As you engage with these tantric techniques, give yourself permission to be at play, so that you can find your individual path in meditation.Be gradual. Allow yourself to gradually become familiar with a sutra. Notice where in your body you respond to the images and sensations that the text evokes. When you practice, delight in the gentle progression from the outer level of experience to the interior intimate levels. This may take only a few seconds, but it's gradual. The text uses the word sanais, "quietly, softly, gently, gradually."Ride your rhythms. When you practice with these sutras, there will always be flow and fluctuations in the pranashakti, the vibrant energy of your body-mind system. Your experience will change second by second, and many sensations, emotions, mental pictures, remembered conversations, dreamlike thoughts, desires, and energy sensations will come and go. Awareness is usually permeated by waves of thought and feeling. The "waveless" state usually lasts only a second or two. Welcome it all, then return to your focus in an effortless way. Ask questions of life. Practicing tantra does not mean imposing techniques upon yourself. An attitude of wonder and inquiry is one of the greatest skills you can develop. Cherish your questions, and then be alert so that you can see, feel, and listen to life's responses.

About the Author

Lorin began meditating in 1968, as part of scientific research at the University of California at Irvine. It was there he first heard the luminous and startling teaching of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a classic yoga text describing 112 meditation practices. It was love at first listening. Scientific research indicates that meditation is a spontaneous and natural human experience, and that there are many doorways into meditation, more than a hundred. Each individual may be called to one or more of these practices - this is your natural technique. For the last 45 years, Lorin's passion has been to help people find the meditation techniques that truly suit their inner nature. Lorin is the author of Meditation Made Easy (HarperOne), Meditation Secrets for Women (HarperOne, written with his wife Camille Maurine), and The Radiance Sutras (Sounds True). Lorin's audio programs include Meditation for Yoga Lovers (Sounds True, 2013). He lives in Los Angeles.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1604076593
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sounds True; First Edition (August 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English, Sanskrit
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781604076592
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1604076592
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.17 x 1.12 x 9.06 inches

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Lorin grew up on the beaches of Southern California - Malibu, Ventura, and San Onofre - bodysurfing, surfing, diving and sailing. In 1968, while a freshman at the University of California, he signed up to be part of a research project on the physiology of meditation, and it was there he first heard the luminous and startling teaching of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a classic yoga text describing 112 meditation practices. It was love at first listening.

It was clear from the research that meditation is a spontaneous and natural human experience, and that there are many doorways into meditation. Each individual may be called to one or more of these hundred-plus practices. Lorin was trained as a meditation teacher in 1969-1970 and began giving instruction in meditation on college campuses, in businesses, hospitals, military bases, private homes, churches, and even high school campuses.

For the last 45 years, Lorin's passion has been to help people find the meditation techniques that truly suit their inner nature, and coach them to thrive in the practice, year after year. Lorin is the author of Meditation Made Easy (HarperOne), Meditation Secrets for Women (HarperOne, written with his wife Camille Maurine), and The Radiance Sutras (Sounds True).

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Lezlie Ward

A Reliable Companion for Yoga Teachers as they explore meditation for themselves and with their students. It is pure Joy.

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015

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It is difficult to express how wonderful and transformative this book is for me. I have been a fan of Lorin Roche and the Radiance Sutras for years, and find this new edition with more Sanskrit and more specific meditation guidance/practices to be even more useful and helpful than the wonderful previous versions. I keep this book by my bedside and actually had to buy another copy because I would haul it to yoga classes to read during Savassana or as an inspirational quote and then want to read it at home and it would still be in the car or elsewhere. That is how much I love this book!
Why do I love it so much... This is evocative poetry for the soul. It reminds me of Rumi Poetry or Mary Oliver. Somehow it conveys the transcendent experience that is so hard to put into words. It is a meditation guidebook disguised as poetry. It also has ancient traditional roots which I like very much, but Lorin has translated the information from the Sanskrit is such a way that it seems completely fresh and relevant for everyday life. This book relates yoga philosophy and our daily life in a beautiful and effortless way. I have been in person with Lorin Roche, and that idea of meditation being natural, enjoyable, and effortless is part and parcel of his approach to meditation. This book gives more than 112 gateways or methods or ways in to meditation. It is a matter of exploring and finding one that resonates for you and then reading it, mulling it over, doing as it suggests. Your meditation practice could be sitting in nature, or going for a walk, or watching the play of light on your bedroom wall. Anything that captures your attention and makes your soul sing, is the method for you. Lorin's approach to meditation is so accessible for each person. He empowers each of us to find the way of meditating that works for us individually. This resource is so rich, it can continue giving you inspiration for years. I think it would be a great companion with some of his previous meditation books as well if you are wanting to understand more about meditation and develop a deeper or more consistent meditation practice. This book supports you in that, because it is such a joy to read it you want to pick it up every day.
I believe so much in this approach to meditaiton that I gave a copy of the book as a gift to all of the people attending Yoga Teacher Training with me. We are using it to learn some Sanskrit, and to also give us beautiful and well explained pathways into meditation. So many people feel that meditation is intimidating. Lorin Roche gives us a sweet smooth path into our own inner worlds. I feel that this book is a gift to the world, and especially to yoga teachers who are interested in finding out more about meditation at their own pace and in their own way. This book will be a reliable companion on your journey. It has been for me and the people who I have shared it with.
Lezlie Ward

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Ariel P.

Profound inspiration for every moment

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024

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I discovered this book on a friend's bookshelf and immediately had to order a copy for myself. The Radiance Sutras awaken and enliven the every day in a way that I cannot even begin to explain. If you are seeking inspiration, healing, and a channel to access divinity anytime, anywhere then this book is for you!

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Igor

This is the most beautiful book I have

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018

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I'm actually a mathematician, and there are so many math books I have fallen in love with over the years... but I am also a yogi and I read a lot of spiritual books too. This is my absolute favorite of all the books I have!

From the very start, I could tell that Lorin has made the language of this book so precise, and so beautiful, that this book was going to be a very very special one. I could read his poems over and over... but his own words outside of the 112 gateways are just as amazing!

This is a translation of an amazing perceived conversation between two gods, one masculine, one feminine, that is so reminiscent of our true divine nature. In this conversation, the masculine aspect gives 112 "gateways" or meditations to the feminine aspect which may enable the reader to find the divine spark within. Lorin has spent literally decades doing true justice to the original Sanskrit in translating it to English. He feels the Sanskrit very deeply, like onomatopoeia; it has become like second nature to him to understand the meaning of the Sanskrit words from their very sound. In conjunction with the traditional definitions of these words, of which he is a master as well, he was able to truly get to the heart of what the Sanskrit is saying and express it in profound English verses. He has a beautiful explanation and guided meditation practice for each of the 112 "gateways" in the end that I sometimes find even more help or more beautiful than the "gateway" itself. This is due to the decades Lorin has spent interviewing people about their meditation practice and getting to know the deep truth about what people actually need, rather than just referring to ancient texts. He truly is an incredible expert on meditation, perhaps the greatest expert living today due to his experience with not just teaching the ancient knowledge but doing his own research on how people actually meditate, what can help, and what can hurt.

Obviously, I simply cannot recommend the book enough....

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One of the most profound and applicable spiritual writings I have found

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023

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Was given to b me by my tibetan Buddhist teacher. I have read some of the other translations, but like Lorin Roche's the best.

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