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space. Instead we sense both our own bodies and those of
all the things and people around us as living embodiments and
expressions of the pure awareness (Shiva) that permeates
space, and of the innate vitality or Shakti that pervades it –
the breath or ‘air of awareness’ that is called Prana. All this
was already indicated in the Vijnanabhairavatantra - one of
the most important practical treatises or tantras of Shaivist
Tantra, and one of the many gifts of ‘Hinduism’ – more
properly speaking the Sanatana Dharma or ‘Eternal Truth’.