EmotionVisualizationSensationVerse 65beginner
The World Flooded with Bliss
Remember the whole world, or your own body, as filled with your own bliss; at once, you brim with supreme delight.
Source verse · Verse 65
सर्वं जगत्स्वदेहं वा स्वानन्दभरितं स्मरेत्। युगपत्स्वामृतेनैव परानन्दमयो भवेत्॥
sarvaṃ jagat svadehaṃ vā svānandabharitaṃ smaret | yugapat svāmṛtenaiva parānandamayo bhavet
Remember the whole world, or your own body, as filled with your own bliss; at once, you brim with supreme delight.
▶ Practice this technique5 / 10 / 15 min · eyes closed
How to practice
- 1Sit easily and contact the simple sense of well-being already present, however quiet.
- 2Imagine that bliss (svānanda) spreading to fill the entire body.
- 3Then let it overflow to fill the whole world — every direction saturated with the same delight.
- 4Holding body and world as flooded with bliss "all at once", let yourself brim with supreme joy (parānanda).
Practice note. Begin from whatever genuine ease you can feel, not a forced cheerfulness. The bliss is "your own" — drawn from within, then extended outward.
Terms in this technique
- ānanda
- Bliss; the joy intrinsic to consciousness.
- bhāvanā
- Contemplative imagination; cultivating a state through felt imagery.
- cit
- Consciousness itself, the aware principle.
Sources consulted
- Jaideva Singh, Vijñānabhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization (Motilal Banarsidass, 1979)
- Bettina Bäumer, Vijñâna Bhairava: The Practice of Centering Awareness (Indica Books, 2011)
- Osho, The Book of Secrets (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998)