1. Kaula Upanishad - English translation
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The Kaula Upanishad
Translated by Mike Magee
WORLDWIDE TANTRA PROJECT 1995
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May the Kaulika triumph! May Varuni triumph! May Truth triumph! May fire triumph! May all living things triumph!
Hail to the Absolute, Hail to Earth. Hail to Fire. Hail to Air. Hail to Guru! You are like the Cosmos! You are that, self-evidently! I will speak of the Divine Law. I will speak the truth! That must protect me! That source of speech must protect me! Protect me! Protect my speech! Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
Now the investigation into Dharma. (It is) knowledge and mind. It is the unified cause of both knowledge and liberation. Siddhi emanating from one's own being arises from liberation.
The five objects of the senses constitute the expanded Cosmos. Of all this Knowledge is the Essence. Yoga is liberation.
The absolute without parts (Adharma) is the Creator. Ignorance is the same as knowledge. Ishvara, the Lord is the Cosmos. The eternal is the same as the transitory. Knowledge is identical with the absence of knowledge. Adharma is Dharma. This is liberation.
The five bonds constitute the essence of real knowledge. The Pinda is the producer (of all). In that is liberation.
This is real knowledge. Of all the sense the eye is the chief. One should behave in a way opposite to that expected. One should not do this devoid of rightness. All this is the essence of Shambhavi.
The amnaya is not to be found in knowledge. Guru is oneness within the mind. Siddhi does not exist in uninitiated ones. Abandon pride and so forth.
One should not reveal this. One should not discuss this with pashus. Even weak argument may contain the truth. One should not make
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distinctions.
Do
not
speak
of
the
secret
of
self.
One
may
speak
of
it
to
a
pupil.
Within
a
Shakta,
outwardly
a
Shaiva,
in
the
world
a
Vaishnava.
This
is
the
rule.
Liberation
comes
from
knowledge
of
self.
Condemn
not
others
such
as
Adhyatmika.
Do
not
perform
vows.
Do
not
establish
oneself
on
restraint.
Binding
oneself
is
not
liberation,
a
Kaula
should
not
practice
outwardly.
One
becomes
equal
to
All.
One
becomes
liberated.
One
may
read
these
sutras
at
sunrise.
One
attains
the
siddhi
of
knowledge.
This
is
the
knowledge
of
Self,
or
Parameshvari.
May
the
Kaula
triumph!
Om
Shanti
Shanti
Shanti.
The
Kaula
Upanishad
is
complete.