श्री वातूलनाथसूत्राणि- Shri Vatulnath Sutrani (with an Exposition of Aphorisms in English)

The concise treatise comprising thirteen esoteric Sutras (Aphorisms), traditionally supposed to be of divine origin, and dealing with an advanced Saiva spiritual order, is known as the Vatulanatha-Sutrani in Saiva lore. Nothing is known with certainity about the authentic authorship of these Sutras though some Saiva scholars have attributed the authorship of these Sutras to Siddha Vatulanatha, who, was a KaulaSiddha and probably lived somewhere after 12th century A.D., yet another scholar Anantasaktipada, who wrote a Sanskrit commentary on these Sutras, asserts that these have emanated as a revelation from the sacred mouth of Yoginis, when Vatulanatha, driven by some hidden force as it were, came in close contact with them and they, in return, favoured him with their extraordinary grace.

These Sutras, among other things, lay much stress on unflinching adherence to a particular spiritual discipline, namely the Mahasahasa-Vrttih, as it surely leads one to the highest state of Self-Realization.

Sri Isvara Svarupa Svami Laksmana Joo Maharaj had kindly explained these Sutras according to monistic viewpoint, in two of his weekly discourses in simple English, some twentyfive years ago, at Isvara Asrama situated on the outskirts of the beautiful Dallake in the vicinity of famous Mughal Garden, Nishat, Srinagar, Kashmir.

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