ADYA TANTRA
Spanda Karika
Spanda Karikas Return to: Trika Shaivism Main Page Excerpted from the Introduction to: Jai Deva Singh. Spanda Karikas: The Divine Creative Pulsation. Motilal Banarsidass. Delhi, India (1980). Section 1: Svaruupaspandah (Spanda as the essential nature of Siva):1. The first verse of this section describes Spanda-Sakti, represented by the Unmesa (emergence) and Nimesa (submergence) of the Sakti (primal energy) of Siva. As Kshemaraja puts it, it is the essential nature of Siva and also that of the e