Reference

About

Who publishes this, and on what footing.

Published by Swara Yoga Peeth Sansthan, Rishikesh.

What this is for

The Śaiva Āgama is the largest body of scripture in the Indian tradition that most people have never read a line of. Much of it has never been translated; a good deal of what circulates online is unsourced, mixed with material from other traditions, or quietly invented. The aim here is narrower and more useful: the texts themselves, accurately given, with enough context that a reader can follow what they are looking at.

On authority

This is a reading resource. It makes no claim to initiatory authority over the material it presents, and it is not a substitute for a teacher — the texts themselves are emphatic on that point, and several of the practices they describe are placed under guidance for reasons that are not merely institutional.

On what is not published here

One class of material is withheld: the ritual-operative chapters — mantroddhāra, prayoga, and the abhicāra rites of subjugation and harm with which the Narpati closes. The tradition itself does not hand this material to the unprepared, and the reason is its own, not ours. Access follows adhikāra — fitness to receive — and is given by an ācārya.

Everything else is open: all doctrine, all history, all translation, and every verse of scripture, free to read.