17 files to be played across multiple beads of the Turnbead app.
Composed by the great sage Adi Shankara in the 8th century. The story goes that when Shankara was eight years old, he encountered the seer Govinda Bhagavatpada. Govinda asked Shankara, "Who are you?", to which he answered with these six stanzas.
The knowledge of 'Shivoham' (I am Shiva) is a core concept in Kashmir Shaivism. One of the techniques of Kashmir Shaivism is to focus on a pure thought that corresponds to the truth, such as "I am Siva".
I am not mind, intellect, ego or memory;
not ears or tongue or smell or sight;
not ether, air, fire, water or earth..
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am not virtue or vice, pleasure or pain;
not mantra, sacred place, scripture or sacrifice;
not the food, the eater or the act of eating.
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am beyond all things.
I am everlasting, self-luminous,
taintless, and completely pure;
immovable, blissful and imperishable.
I am without thought, without form;
I am all pervasive, I am beyond all senses;
not detachment or salvation or
anything that could be measured.
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
17 files to be played across multiple beads of the Turnbead app.
Composed by the great sage Adi Shankara in the 8th century. The story goes that when Shankara was eight years old, he encountered the seer Govinda Bhagavatpada. Govinda asked Shankara, "Who are you?", to which he answered with these six stanzas.
The knowledge of 'Shivoham' (I am Shiva) is a core concept in Kashmir Shaivism. One of the techniques of Kashmir Shaivism is to focus on a pure thought that corresponds to the truth, such as "I am Siva".
I am not mind, intellect, ego or memory;
not ears or tongue or smell or sight;
not ether, air, fire, water or earth..
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am not virtue or vice, pleasure or pain;
not mantra, sacred place, scripture or sacrifice;
not the food, the eater or the act of eating.
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am beyond all things.
I am everlasting, self-luminous,
taintless, and completely pure;
immovable, blissful and imperishable.
I am without thought, without form;
I am all pervasive, I am beyond all senses;
not detachment or salvation or
anything that could be measured.
I am consciousness and bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!