The Heart of the Yogini: The Yoginihrdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric Treatise

Book Overview

Though many practitioners of yoga and meditation are familiar with the Shri Chakra, a sacred diagram, few fully understand the depth of meaning in this representation of the cosmos. The Yoginihrdaya, a Hindu tantric text dating back to the tenth or eleventh century CE, discloses to initiates the secret of the Heart of the Yogini, or the supreme Reality: the divine plane where the Goddess (Tripurasundari, or Consciousness itself) manifests her power and glory, through her yantra, mantra, and worship. Andr Padoux, with Roger Orphe-Jeanty, offers the first English translation of this seminal text. Padoux demonstrates that the Yoginihrdaya is not a philosophical treatise aimed at expounding particular metaphysical tenets. Rather it aims to show a way towards liberation, or, more precisely, to a tantric form of liberation in this life-jivanmukti, which grants both liberation from the fetters of the world and domination over it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199982333
• ISBN13: 9780199982332
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"