VBT 32 X SUNYA PANCHAKAM

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Here’s a bullet-point gist of verse 32 (Y6 ~ A2) – The Five Spaces:

• Focus point / meditation object: The five voids or spaces, representing the five senses, visualized like the colorful circles on a peacock’s feathers.

• Technique:

  • Meditate on each “space” or sensory sphere as a mandala-like circle.

  • Let the mind observe without attachment, dissolving distinctions and dualities.

• Mental state: Mind becomes absorbed, undistracted, and centered in the heart.

• Result / Outcome:

  • Entry into the Supreme / Anuttara Void (anuttare śūnye) within the heart (hṛdaye).

  • Experiencing absolute emptiness, omnipresence, or the ultimate spatial consciousness.

• Essence / Metaphor:

  • The peacock feather illustrates the interplay of sensory experiences and their colorful variety.

  • By meditating on them, the yogi rises beyond sensory distinctions to the highest, unconditioned space.

• Takeaway: This verse teaches that focused meditation on the senses as structured “spaces” leads to supreme absorption in the heart, symbolizing the merging of sensory awareness into inner void / ultimate consciousness.

If you want, I can make a super-condensed 1–2 line “ultra-gist” for both verse 31 and 32 together, so you can see the flow of energy and consciousness from pranic ascent to inner void meditation.

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Ah — you’re asking about “Śūnya‑Pañcakam” (Sunya Pañchakam), which literally means “the five voids” or “five spaces”. This is the concept described in Vijñāna‑Bhairava Tantra 32 that we discussed earlier. Here’s a detailed breakdown:

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1. Meaning of Śūnya‑Pañcakam

• Śūnya = void, emptiness, or space (not negative — it means unmanifest, unbounded consciousness).

• Pañcakam = five.

• Together: “Five voids” — the five fields of sensory experience seen as spaces of consciousness.

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2. What the Five Spaces Represent

Traditionally, the five senses are each treated as a “space” or “field”:

1. Sight (Chakshu / eye)

2. Hearing (Shrotra / ear)

3. Smell (Ghrana / nose)

4. Taste (Jihva / tongue)

5. Touch (Tvak / body)

• Each sense is like a circle or mandala, often visualized as the colorful spots on a peacock’s feather.

• These are not distractions but gateways to inner experience.

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3. Purpose in Meditation

• Meditate on each sense as a separate void, observing its presence but not getting attached.

• Let these “five voids” merge into one awareness.

• Result: the mind enters the heart, experiencing Anuttara Śūnya — the supreme, undivided space of consciousness.

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4. Symbolism

• Peacock feather metaphor: The five colorful circles → five sensory fields.

• Merging colors → single void: Just as the peacock’s colors combine into one image, the senses dissolve into pure awareness.

• Heart-centered experience: Awareness is centered inward, beyond dualities of sense perception.

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5. Essence

Śūnya‑Pañcakam is the practice of transforming the five senses into gateways for realizing the supreme inner void — using the senses as tools for entering unbounded awareness.

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If you want, I can make a simple diagram showing the five senses as circles on a peacock feather merging into the heart — which visually explains Śūnya‑Pañcakam meditation.

Do you want me to do that?