WHAT IS HINDUISM?
- which, by drawing on the language and lineage of
German thought^3 , has succeeded in forging a new body of
knowledge, one which is the self-conscious vessel for the
reincarnation of the very soul of the Hindu religious
tradition known as Kashmir Shaivism’. The New Yoga not
only refines and evolves the basic recognitions upon which
the traditional Hindu scriptures of Kashmir Shaivism are
founded^4 – namely that the atman itself is identical with the
light of that universal awareness (chit, chaitanya) that is Shiva - a light without which no suns and no phenomena of
physical nature could be perceived, and no physical
concepts of light ‘energy’ or ‘quanta’ could arise within
awareness^5. The New Yoga also integrates those two
linguistically parallel recognitions that constitute the
culmination of the Indian and Germanic traditions
respectively – as lineages of thought:
- The culminating recognition of the Germanic tradition
that “Being is not a being” (Martin Heidegger) and thus
irreducible to a supreme God-being, and individual
being of any sort or a set or sum of such beings. - The culminating recognition of the Indic tradition that
‘Consciousness is not ‘a’ consciousness’ – that it is not
reducible to a set of individual ‘consciousnesses’,
‘minds’ or to the property of an individual self or
subject, ego or ‘I’.