Speaking Sanskrit

Yaamala Tantra says विन्दु त्रिकोण वसुकोण दशार युग्म मन्वस्र नाग दल संयुत षोडशारम् । वृत्तत्रयं च धरणी सदनत्रयं च श्री चक्रराजम् उदितं परदेवतायाः ।। विन्दु - Point , त्रिकोण - Tri angled , वसुकोण - Eight angled , दशार युग्म - Ten angled two joined मन्वस्र - Fourteen  ,  नाग दल - Eight petals , संयुत षोडशारम् - Joined with sixteen This is the image of inner Matrrikachakra on a wall : Following gif shows how it was constructed

Śivasūtras Vasugupta (860–925) from Kashmir is the author of famous  Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta These sutras were revealed to him in a dream by Shiva Following are these beautiful sutras and a youtube recording of the same Śāmbhavopāya चैतन्यमात्मा॥१॥ ज्ञानं बन्धः॥२॥ योनिवर्गः कलाशरीरम्॥३॥ ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका॥४॥ उद्यमो भैरवः॥५॥ शक्तिचक्रसन्धाने विश्वसंहारः॥६॥ जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तभेदे तुर्याभोगसम्भवः॥७॥ ज्ञानं जाग्रत्॥८॥ स्वप्नो विकल्पाः॥९॥ अविवेको मायासौषुप्तम्॥१०॥ त्रितयभोक्ता वीरेशः॥११॥ विस्मयो योगभूमिकाः॥१२॥ इच्छाशक्तिरुमा कुमारी॥१३॥ दृश्यं शरीरम्॥१४॥ हृदये चित्तसङ्घट्टाद्दृश्यस्वापदर्शनम्॥१५॥ शुद्धतत्त्वसन्धानाद्वापशुशक्तिः॥१६॥ वितर्क आत्मज्ञानम्॥१७॥ लोकानन्दः समाधिसुखम्॥१८॥ शक्तिसन्धाने शरीरोत्पत्तिः॥१९॥ भूतसन्धानभूतपृथक्त्वविश्वसङ्घट्टाः॥२०॥ शुद्धविद्योदयाच्चक्रेशत्वसिद्धिः॥२१॥ महाह्रदानुसन्धानान्मन्त्रवीर्यानुभवः॥२२॥ Śāktopāya चित्तं मन्त्रः॥१॥ प्रयत्नः साधकः॥२॥ विद्याशरीरसत्...

॥ ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥      The Shiva Mahimna Stotra is very popular among the devotees of Lord Shiva and is considered one of the best among all Stotras (or Stutis) offered to Lord Shiva . Knowledge of Chandas is very important to correctly chant the sutras.The Chandas or Sanskrit Meter used in this Stotra is called : ShikhariNI Defining    .   ,   -   and i  as: - denotes long syllable (‘ guru ’ in Sanskrit) . denotes short syllable (‘ laghu ’ in Sanskrit) i denotes place where one inhales The ShikhariNi can be written as : . - - / - - - / i . . . / . . - / -  . . / . -  i After 6th Syllable and after 17th Syllable one pauses for inhalation Following is a table with the first sutra of Mahimna Stotra,  with four padas and each pada has 17 Akshras/Syllables. These Akshras are determined on basis of Paninis Chanda Shastra created more than 2000 years ago Practice chanti...

Spandakārikā There are many versions of Spandakaarikaa's with same meaning but little differences here and there and on top of that there were many versions of Spandakaarikaa's which is very irritating and confusing and perplexing. I am choosing this : https://archive.org/details/046.spandaKarikaShyamakantaDwivediAnanda   Reason being - it seems to me that the author has done proper analysis of various scriptures available and noted various difference as well as similarities and based the text on Acharya Bhattakallatas own Vrrti of Spandakarika ( this ) Hence I will compile all the sutras from both sources above and put them here in devanaagari one by one manually for easy recital and memorization. य स्यो न्मे ष नि मे षा भ्यां ज ग तः प्र ल यो द यौ तं श क्ति च क्र वि भ व प्र भ वं श ङ्क रं स्तु मः [1] य त्र स्थि त मि दं स र्वं का र्यं य स्मा च्च नि र्ग तम् त स्या ना वृ त रू प त्वा न्न नि रो धो स्ति कु त्र चित् [2] जा ग्र दा दि व...