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The Vijñāna Bhairava gives 112 doors, and many of them open onto ordinary moments. You don't read the text. You wait for your life to hand you one. Tap the moment you are in. You get one verse and ninety seconds.

In the body

In the heart

Seen and heard

In the mind

0 of 112 tried

  1. Dhāraṇā 1
  2. Dhāraṇā 2
  3. Dhāraṇā 3
  4. Dhāraṇā 4
  5. Dhāraṇā 5
  6. Dhāraṇā 6
  7. Dhāraṇā 7
  8. Dhāraṇā 8
  9. Dhāraṇā 9
  10. Dhāraṇā 10
  11. Dhāraṇā 11
  12. Dhāraṇā 12
  13. Dhāraṇā 13
  14. Dhāraṇā 14
  15. Dhāraṇā 15
  16. Dhāraṇā 16
  17. Dhāraṇā 17
  18. Dhāraṇā 18
  19. Dhāraṇā 19
  20. Dhāraṇā 20
  21. Dhāraṇā 21
  22. Dhāraṇā 22
  23. Dhāraṇā 23
  24. Dhāraṇā 24
  25. Dhāraṇā 25
  26. Dhāraṇā 26
  27. Dhāraṇā 27
  28. Dhāraṇā 28
  29. Dhāraṇā 29
  30. Dhāraṇā 30
  31. Dhāraṇā 31
  32. Dhāraṇā 32
  33. Dhāraṇā 33
  34. Dhāraṇā 34
  35. Dhāraṇā 35
  36. Dhāraṇā 36
  37. Dhāraṇā 37
  38. Dhāraṇā 38
  39. Dhāraṇā 39
  40. Dhāraṇā 40
  41. Dhāraṇā 41
  42. Dhāraṇā 42
  43. Dhāraṇā 43
  44. Dhāraṇā 44
  45. Dhāraṇā 45
  46. Dhāraṇā 46
  47. Dhāraṇā 47
  48. Dhāraṇā 48
  49. Dhāraṇā 49
  50. Dhāraṇā 50
  51. Dhāraṇā 51
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  55. Dhāraṇā 55
  56. Dhāraṇā 56
  57. Dhāraṇā 57
  58. Dhāraṇā 58
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  60. Dhāraṇā 60
  61. Dhāraṇā 61
  62. Dhāraṇā 62
  63. Dhāraṇā 63
  64. Dhāraṇā 64
  65. Dhāraṇā 65
  66. Dhāraṇā 66
  67. Dhāraṇā 67
  68. Dhāraṇā 68
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  70. Dhāraṇā 70
  71. Dhāraṇā 71
  72. Dhāraṇā 72
  73. Dhāraṇā 73
  74. Dhāraṇā 74
  75. Dhāraṇā 75
  76. Dhāraṇā 76
  77. Dhāraṇā 77
  78. Dhāraṇā 78
  79. Dhāraṇā 79
  80. Dhāraṇā 80
  81. Dhāraṇā 81
  82. Dhāraṇā 82
  83. Dhāraṇā 83
  84. Dhāraṇā 84
  85. Dhāraṇā 85
  86. Dhāraṇā 86
  87. Dhāraṇā 87
  88. Dhāraṇā 88
  89. Dhāraṇā 89
  90. Dhāraṇā 90
  91. Dhāraṇā 91
  92. Dhāraṇā 92
  93. Dhāraṇā 93
  94. Dhāraṇā 94
  95. Dhāraṇā 95
  96. Dhāraṇā 96
  97. Dhāraṇā 97
  98. Dhāraṇā 98
  99. Dhāraṇā 99
  100. Dhāraṇā 100
  101. Dhāraṇā 101
  102. Dhāraṇā 102
  103. Dhāraṇā 103
  104. Dhāraṇā 104
  105. Dhāraṇā 105
  106. Dhāraṇā 106
  107. Dhāraṇā 107
  108. Dhāraṇā 108
  109. Dhāraṇā 109
  110. Dhāraṇā 110
  111. Dhāraṇā 111
  112. Dhāraṇā 112
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Caught or missed

These moments are fast. Most of the time you only notice the door after it has closed. So say which it was. Over weeks the grid becomes your own map: the gates you can walk through and the ones that still slam. A gate shows as caught once you have caught it at least as often as you have missed it. Moments from one verse share a square.

The verse asks one more thing of a sneeze and of hunger: ādi or anta, the beginning or the end. Only those two ask, because only there does the text say it.

Why these moments

Every moment here comes from a verse that names it, or names the kind of thing it is. That gives 41 moments from 28 verses. Most of the 112 are practices you sit down to do, and they are not here. A yawn is not here, and boredom is not here, because the text does not name them.

About the numbers

Each card shows two numbers. The śloka is the verse number in Jaideva Singh's edition. The dhāraṇā is the practice's place among the 112. The two do not move in step, so each card gives both. For example, the open-sky verse is śloka 84 and dhāraṇā 61. Other books count differently.

The English is condensed after Singh. The Sanskrit follows the e-text, corrected where it has plain slips. The verses are the text. The ninety seconds are not: they were written for this page, as a way in.

The map is kept on this device only. There is no streak and nothing to keep up.