num_pages: 208
description: Though many practitioners of yoga and meditation are familiar with the Shri Chakra a sacred diagram few fully understand the depth of meaning in this representation of the cosmos. The Yoginihrdaya a Hindu tantric text dating back to the tenth or eleventh century CE discloses to initiates the secret of the Heart of the Yogini or the supreme the divine plane where the Goddess (Tripurasundari or Consciousness itself) manifests her power and glory through her yantra mantra and worship. Andr Padoux with Roger Orphe-Jeanty offers the first English translation of this seminal text. Padoux demonstrates that the Yoginihrdaya is not a philosophical treatise aimed at expounding particular metaphysical tenets. Rather it aims to show a way towards liberation or more precisely to a tantric form of liberation in this life- jivanmukti  which grants both liberation from the fetters of the world and domination over it.
language: English
title: The Heart of the Yogini: The Yoginihrdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric Treatise
publisher: Oxford University Press