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The recordings, those materials are based on, were made by John Hughes over a period of 16 years while living and studying with Swami Lakshmanjoo.

The Lakshmanjoo Academy has been formed to educate the public and academic community through the editing and releasing of great classic yogic texts, interpreted through the lens of Kashmir Shaivism, by the venerable Master Swami Lakshmanjoo. We provide free study material as well as purchasable books with audio downloads and comprehensive study sets from the oral Teachings of Swami Lakshmanjoo on the subject of Kashmir Shaivism. "Kashmir Shaivism is known as the Pure Trika system. It is 'the three-fold science of man and his world.' Kashmir Shaivism is a philosophy meant for any human being without the restriction of caste, creed, color or gender." ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

Websites
https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/
https://www.universalshaivafellowship

India branch
https://www.ishwarashramtrust.com/

Weekly excerpts "Swamiji says"
https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog

Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lakshmanjoo-academy-kashmir/id1088097740

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11/04/2026

“Go on taking food, as much food as you can take, go on taking it but keep awareness in it. While taking food, offer it to your own God–that is yuktāhāra. Yuktāhāra means when you eat food, go on eating it with awareness, go on focusing on its taste. Which taste? The taste of whatever you eat . . . and there will be one-pointedness. Maintain one-pointedness while eating. Maintain one-pointedness. This is my commentary, my amendment, maintain one-pointedness in sleeping. You can sleep but maintain one-pointedness in sleeping, be aware while sleeping. If you sleep, be aware! Don’t be just like a sluggish bear sleeping. Put the trick of yoga into it.” Swami Lakshmanjoo

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/in-sensual-pleasures-what-should-you-do?fbclid=IwY2xjawVSDG5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWN0UTZwUnNrZHIzb1BpQjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfqsAdloisqQBs7Ym0wVcab__fT-_yeab1jxUOIdAuzj35611h82lyUoFarXQ_aem_gxSl4Xw_B6P6aM9G6iXNmA .tab=0

11/03/2026

Which practice leads us to the cessation of suffering? How can we end suffering?

"If you say, ‘he is bound, he is suffering’, and at the same time you will say, ‘he is enjoying’; the same person is enjoying; at 9:00 o’clock the same person is suffering, huh . . . the same person is enjoying.

Is there partiality?

He is enjoying at the same time. From one viewpoint you will see he is enjoying. From another viewpoint you will see he is suffering. So suffering and enjoyment is just a play of God. He does not suffer, he does not enjoy, he is situated in his own God consciousness. And he is always adjusted with his free playful act." ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

Source: Online Course - Grace on the Spiritual Path in Kashmir Shaivism as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/the-end-of-suffering?fbclid=IwY2xjawVSDClleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWN0UTZwUnNrZHIzb1BpQjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfK0ejJIfAVSjMjcY06lfOZMW3Ab1zG2ursJDPaex8w3_9MCCnGaXidDWgBpA_aem_qLA_uVxj-t0DZf-TU-wAAw

11/02/2026

In this excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, In the Light of Kashmir Shaivism Swami Lakshmanjoo makes clear that “Everybody can achieve Him with bhakti, devotion, love.” And he goes on to explain what love really is…

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/love-is-the-answer-and-the-key-in-kashmir-shaivism?fbclid=IwY2xjawVSDBJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWN0UTZwUnNrZHIzb1BpQjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfDLBUx6tzOvwmFvwtSZiOQJi6-18FublH1F-ETefwU1_g4uwsc9NFZ-b-tRI_aem_4kYgGHIHYDir3IKq1Xtu9w .tab=0

11/01/2026

In this excerpt from the Shiva Sutras – The Supreme Awakening, third awakening, Verse 4) Swami Lakshmanjoo explains how “You must do this kind of practice for subsiding the power of ignorance, the power of illusion.”

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/you-must-do-this-kind-of-practice-for-subsiding-the-power-of-ignorance-the-power-of-illusion-shiva-sutras-3-1?fbclid=IwY2xjawVSC_pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWN0UTZwUnNrZHIzb1BpQjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfDLBUx6tzOvwmFvwtSZiOQJi6-18FublH1F-ETefwU1_g4uwsc9NFZ-b-tRI_aem_4kYgGHIHYDir3IKq1Xtu9w .tab=0

10/31/2026

In this week’s excerpt, from the book Hymns to Shiva, Utpaladeva’s Shivastotravali as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo, Utpaladeva explains to us why Lord Shiva destroys this universe. He also talks about why Shaivite yogi dances in the graveyard, and why “everything is divine to them”.

O my Master, when You destroy this whole universe, at the time of destroying this whole universe, You don’t actually destroy this universe. You teach something to us. You give lectures there at that moment. This teaching comes out from Your being.

Sato vināśa sambandhāt. Whatever is created will be destroyed in the end; whatever is created will be destroyed. This is [what] You teach [us] at the time, at the moment, when You destroy this whole universe. You teach us sato vināśa, whatever is existing, whatever has existed, will be destroyed.

So, matparaṁ nikhilaṁ mṛṣā, so, it is all a dream, except to Me. I only am the only [One who is] detached from this position because I am not born and I won’t die. Whatever is born will die. Evamevodyate nātha, this is what You teach, saṁhāra līlaya, by the play of this destruction.

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/why-lord-shiva-destroys-this-universe?fbclid=IwY2xjawU8gPlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTZWSlVMbFhWNk1HcER1bUhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeWw_onepcc1Lqw0Ue1tsaxChSSAUuG94Lm_q6CLJrZrCL154j3HOyUKztaXg_aem_4xKKU6AV4f12MKKWKYb9zw .tab=0

10/30/2026

How He, (God Consciousness], enwraps [Himself]? Citraṁ, it is the wonder of the wonders in this world, which is not understood properly how it happens, how it works. Just like jālena jālakāra, just like the spider makes a web of his own production and is ultimately caught in this very web. [The spider] enwraps [itself in its web] and he dies afterwards. There is no way out for him.

Bas, now he says how this misunderstanding will be removed. For this he explains now in further ślokas how this misunderstanding of thinking is removed.
Swamiji Lakshmanjoo on Paramarthasara

Read more at:
Essence of the Supreme Reality: Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara
https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/books

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10/29/2026

Pārtha, Hey Arjuna, O Arjuna, who in this way, ananyacetāḥ, being one-pointed and one-pointedly remembers Me who is Parabhairava, and remembers Me always, in each and every activity of his daily routine of life in his lifetime, tasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ pārtha, for him, I am at his disposal, nitya yuktasya yoginaḥ, because that yogi is always a yogi. He has not accepted any other activity besides this yoga.

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https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/you-are-parabhairava-2?fbclid=IwY2xjawU8fiFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTZWSlVMbFhWNk1HcER1bUhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeWw_onepcc1Lqw0Ue1tsaxChSSAUuG94Lm_q6CLJrZrCL154j3HOyUKztaXg_aem_4xKKU6AV4f12MKKWKYb9zw

10/28/2026

In Svacchanda Ta**ra it is also said:

Oh Pārvatī, all mantras are successful for the one who contemplates on his own self as one with Bhairava because he is always one with that awareness of consciousness (samāveśa). (Svacchanda Ta**ra)

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/the-importance-of-active-effort-in-meditation-according-to-kashmir-shaivism-2?fbclid=IwY2xjawU8fdxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTZWSlVMbFhWNk1HcER1bUhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeWw_onepcc1Lqw0Ue1tsaxChSSAUuG94Lm_q6CLJrZrCL154j3HOyUKztaXg_aem_4xKKU6AV4f12MKKWKYb9zw

**ra

10/27/2026

The teachings of Kashmir Shaivism are derived from the ninety-two Ta**ras, also known as Agamas, revealed by Lord Siva in the form of a dialog between himself and the Divine Mother.

Of these Ta**ras, sixty-four are considered purely monistic, eighteen are monistic-cum-dualistic, and ten are dualistic. Kashmir Shaivism derives its teachings from the sixty-four monistic Ta**ras, known as the Bhairava Ta**ras, the essence of which is called ‘Trika Shaivism’.

The word trika means “the threefold science of man and his world.” In the idea of trika, there are three energies: parā (supreme), parāparā (medium) and aparā (lowest). These three primary energies represent the threefold activities of the world. In the thought of Trika, therefore, it is admitted that this whole universe and every action in it, whether spiritual, physical, or worldly, is existing in these three energies.

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/kashmir-shaivism?fbclid=IwY2xjawU8fXRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTZWSlVMbFhWNk1HcER1bUhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeKYBwIyr0uSNvvzw-Osj_8yX5PwZl1yGbyztbCETa8advFEh2DZ1F5vqxbAk_aem_DmwMddNWDhpaHWBR_JG3Ww .tab=0

10/26/2026

In this excerpt from the Hymns to Shiva, Utpaladeva’s Shivastotravali, Swami Lakshmanjoo explains Utpaladeva’s wonder about being a “slave” to Lord Shiva without seeing.

https://www.lakshmanjooacademy.org/blog/this-is-a-wonder-to-me?fbclid=IwY2xjawU8fS5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTZWSlVMbFhWNk1HcER1bUhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeMFoVEqXvcIpxjwTrOE_PZJXD6Z9Nwc-FXe2Mo65jTgYu3qlkCo01aFQtgH0_aem_xM-XJiRxHc6xZpsfWQDsYA .tab=0

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