“Heart Hands” ~ Shweta Mitra (May 2010) LOVE STORY Stumbling, a dark cold night Shrinking, melancholy, sheer fright Maze of questions, “Is this it?” Must find answers, can’t yet quit A flicker of light, a faint glow “Come to Me”, unambiguous now “Where?” “How?” ask I “Take one step and I’ll take five” Courage and…

Abhinavagupta (950-1020, Kashmir, India) was one of the most powerfully insightful, deeply profound and logically-clear philosophers of the reality of Living Unbound that the world has ever known. However, he is not at all widely known outside of the circles that his work has touched directly, namely the non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir and certain Indian…