Thursday, 11 December 2025

Here is a clean, distilled BULLET GIST of Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra — Verse 26, the culmination of the “Y1” breath–pause teachings.

BULLET GIST — Verse 26 (Spontaneous Breath-Pause, Y1 continued)

The “Center” opens when attention becomes nirvikalpa—free of thought-construction, tension, or effort.
At that moment, prāṇa-śakti (breath-energy) neither goes out nor comes in.
Not because it is held—
but because the breath naturally suspends, resting in its own stillness.
This is not a deliberate kumbhaka;
it is a spontaneous, effortless pause arising from deep presence.
In this natural suspension, Bhairavī (Śakti as breath-power) expands in the middle space (madhya).
The yogi experiences the fusion of inhale and exhale, a moment where dual movement collapses into unity.
In that still point, as mental distinctions dissolve,
the nature of Bhairava (pure consciousness) shines forth unobstructed.
The verse emphasizes:
When the breath no longer moves in any direction, the truth that breath has always concealed becomes visible.
This is the subtlest version of the breath practice—
not working at the two origins (v.24),
not staying at the two voids (v.25),
but entering the natural, thought-free suspension itself.
Essence:
When breath spontaneously rests in the center and mind becomes choiceless, Bhairava reveals Himself through Śakti.

One-sentence summary:

In effortless breath-stillness arising from thought-free awareness, the breath no longer moves, and Bhairava’s essence becomes directly revealed.

If you want, I can also make:

A 3-verse synthesis (24–26) showing how they build into one method,
A diagram of the breath and the “middle center,”
Or the tantric physiology behind madhya, nirvikalpa, and svacchanda-kumbhaka.