Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Tantra Tattva

In Kaśmir Śaivism, the 36 tattvas describe the Absolute. Tattvas in Tantric practice refers to five great tattvas which make the world which include earth, water, air, ether and fire

"In the root divine Wisdom is all-Brahman; in the stem she is an all-Illusion; in the flower she is all-World; and in the fruit, all-Liberation."