The Liberating Nectar of Precious Instructions and the Path of Divine Consciousness

Laya-yoga is a mystical tradition of teachings on the realization of Supreme Liberation—Saruba-mukti—within one life through the path of contemplative non-action, and through integration with the inner sound and light. This text is an invaluable collection of oral instructions from great saints—siddhas, beings who have reached the highest peaks of spiritual realization. It grants spiritual awakening only to those who listen to it, because it is an expression of living transmission by a awakened mind—“Guhiya mandala,” the secret space of the mind revealed from the dimension of “pure vision” of gods and saints.

For practitioners of the contemplative path in the Laya-yoga tradition, the concept of “sankalpa” is connected with the intention to perceive the world in a certain way—to see the universe through the eyes of an enlightened deity or the Absolute.

The art of sankalpa is not meditation, but the art of controlling perception, seeing the world. When brought to perfection, it allows the yogi to surpass the level of meditation and go beyond meditation and the meditator—into the natural state of contemplation. That is why natural contemplation is also called non-meditation yoga: in the sense that reality is perceived directly, without effort and without mental constructions.