Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir

Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind meditation its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an expanded awareness described Śākta-Śaiva scriptures. This tradition has scriptural authority revealed texts vision is articulated philosophical discourse philosophers, Abhinavagupta Kṣemarāja. It idea realization innate purity which also wish examine.