॥ महार्थेश्वर-महार्थेश्वरी ध्यानम्॥

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दशबाहुस्थितं क्रुद्धं मन्त्रमात्रविभूषितम् ॥
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कश्मीर की एक दुर्लभ मातृका ( श्रीशम्भूनाथ कौल जी के संग्रह में ) में महार्थेश्वर-महार्थेश्वरी का ध्यान वर्णित किया गया है। महार्थेश्वर भगवान् महाभैरव का ही मूर्त्यंतर है वहीं महार्थेश्वरी सत्रह अक्षरों की विद्या से उपासित श्री कालसंकर्षिणी है। विशिष्ट क्रमार्चा में महार्थयामल का अर्चन वामविधि से उत्तराम्नाय के साधक किया करते है। अस्तु…।

ह्रीं श्रीं महार्थेश्वरीमहार्थेश्वर अम्बा नाथ पादुकां पूजयामि॥

Ramblings on Krama School

• Krama is oldest Kashmirian philosophical School.

• It predates spanda and pratyAbhij~nA schools of Kashmir Shaivism.

• devInaya,kAlInaya,atinaya, mahAnaya,mahArtha,ShaDardha are synonyms of Krama.
• The word mahArtha overshadowed the usage of word Krama in later literature.

• There were two main subschools of Krama system in Kashmir 1) mahAsAhasa School 2) ChummAmudrA School

• Based on geographical location as well as philosophical differences there were two major schools of Krama system . 1) North Indian chatuShTayArtha School 2) South Indian pa~nchArtha School

• It belongs to uttarAmnAya the northern current of transmissions from vAmadeva face of Shiva .

• Krama is cream of uttarAmnAya.

• uDDiyAnapITha of ma~Ngalapura state was main centre of Krama School.vajrayAna form of Buddhism orignated here.Guru Padmasambhava belongs to this place.

• shrImakAradevI directly initiated j~nAnanetranAtha in this system . He is also know as AvatArakanAth.

• Supreme reality according to Krama School is Goddess kRRishA or kAlasa~NkarShiNI with mahAmanthAnabhairava.

• It is Shakti oriented approch towards supreme reality.

• Krama practices fall under umbrella of shAktopAya.
• Krama School regards dvaita and advaita as irrelevant,since such a concept of reality can’t be anything but relative.
• Krama School is critical of bandha versus mokSha concept.
• Followers of Krama School regards bhagavatagItA as a kramAgama.
• According to Kramakeli of AbhinavaguptAchArya GitA is an attempt on part of KrShna to expound to Arjun the philosophy of Krama .
• Besides the famous opening of the fourth chapter of GitA , according to him records the original history of Krama system. While initiating Arjun into Krama ,He had to enter supremestate of kAlasa~NkarShiNI
• Krama School preferred local languages over Brahmanical Sanskrit.
• mahArthama~njarI is composed in mahArAShTrI by maheshvarAnandanAtha.
• shitikaNThAchArya wrote mahAnAyaprakAsha in prAkRRita.
• taNtrasAra preserves some prAkRRita verses by abhinavaguptAchArya.
• 4th Ahnika of tantrAloka deals with Krama system . abhinavaguptAchArya received Krama teachings from shrI bhUtirAja who was an extraordinary expert of kAlInaya.
• mahAnayaprakAsha of shrIkaNTha, mahAnayaprakAsha of shitikaNTha, mahArthama~njarI of maheshvarAnanda , chidgaganachandrikA of shrIvatsa, vAtulanAthasUtrANi with commentry by anantashaktipAda are currently available Krama scriptures .kramakelI, siddhanAtha’s kramastava, kramasUtra, kramasiddhi, kAlIkrama, mahAnayapaddhati, mahArthasUtra, kramAgama etc are extint scriptures .
• Krama System rejects Brahmanical caste system based on selective discrimination,any one who is qualified can get initiation in this system.
• Krama System rejects authority of Vedas and Smritis .
• Followers of Krama System don’t believe in external ritualism, for them all rituals are purely internal.
• kAlIstotra of shivAnandanAtha , siddhanAtha’s kramastotra and khachakrapa~nchakastotra of arNasiMha are main stotras of this school.

ह्रीँ श्रीँ क्रमनाथ सहित क्रमाम्बा पादुकां पुजायमि ॥