Tantra Illuminated

A Tantrik Treasure Trove of Translations, Teachings, and Practices.

02/09/2026

"You don't usually see a tree. You actually see your concept of a tree without realizing it. Every tree is a unique, magnificent, complex pulsing form of life. If you could somehow undo the idea that you know what a tree is — then you're faced with this miraculous thing."— Christopher Hareesh Wallis,

The Spanda-kārikā returns to this again and again: the difference between perception and the concept of perception — and what is available when that gap is noticed.

This is one of 52 verses. The course begins September 12th on Ta**ra Illuminated Online — 26 weeks, two verses at a time, with Kallaṭa's commentary translated directly from the Sanskrit. Included in Sadhaka membership, which starts with a 7-day free trial for new members.

Details at the link in bio.
Led by Christopher Wallis

31/08/2026

"According to Vedanta, consciousness does not do anything. It's an eternal, impartial, passive, static witness. It is simply awareness. It doesn't have any shakti. And Ta**ra says no — consciousness is inherently dynamic. It has inherent capacities or potencies, which is why Ta**ra argues that the world is real, not an illusion. Because if consciousness has no power, then manifestation is not real; it must be an illusion. And Ta**ra says no — consciousness has power, and it has the power to manifest everything that it manifests, and the world is real, and calls for your engagement, not your renunciation."

— Christopher Hareesh Wallis, from the Patreon Spanda-Kārikā sessions

Beginning September 12th, we begin the Spanda-Kārikā course on Ta**ra Illuminated Online — 26 weeks, two verses at a time, each with Kallaṭa's commentary translated directly from the Sanskrit. Included in Sadhaka membership, which starts with a 7-day free trial for new members. Every session is recorded.

Details at the link in bio.
Led by Christopher Wallis
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26/08/2026

Ta**ra Illuminated's most recent podcast episode is a guided practice for meeting emotions with awareness, allowing them to be fully felt and processed. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts or see the link in our bio

Discover a treasure trove of guided meditations, teachings, and courses at ta**railluminated.org.

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25/08/2026

The way a person laughs. The way they go quiet. The specific shape of how they move through a room. It has never existed before. It will not exist again.
"Every sentient being is worthy of reverence because she expresses her divinity in a unique manner never seen before and never to be seen again."
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Christopher Hareesh Wallis, Ta**ra Illuminated

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24/08/2026

Waking, dreaming, deep sleep. We pass through all three every day.

"Your essence nature, the source of all that you experience, flows equally in all three states of consciousness — waking, dreaming, and deep sleep — none of which are other than it. In all these states, the perceiver never departs from its own essential nature."
— Christopher Hareesh Wallis, from the Spanda-kārikā sessions

Verse 3 turns to these three states, and to what continues across all of them.

Beginning September 12th, we read the text slowly on Ta**ra Illuminated Online — 26 weeks, two verses at a time, each with Kallaṭa's commentary translated directly from the Sanskrit. Included in Sadhaka membership, which starts with a 7-day free trial for new members. Every session is recorded.

Details at the link in bio.
Led by Christopher Wallis

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19/08/2026

"One who constantly applies himself to the discernment of the principle of Pulsation quickly discovers his innate nature even in the waking state." — Spanda-kārikā, verse 21

The Stanzas on Pulsation were composed in the Kashmir Valley over 1,100 years ago. They point again and again to spanda — the subtle vibration underlying every moment of experience — and to what happens when attention turns toward it.

This September, we read the text slowly: 26 weeks, two verses at a time, each with Kallaṭa's commentary translated directly from the Sanskrit.

Beginning September 12th, included in Sadhaka membership — which starts with a 7-day free trial for new members. Every session is recorded, so you can begin at any point.

Details at the link in bio.

18/08/2026

The Spanda-kārikā — the Stanzas on Pulsation — was composed in the Kashmir Valley over 1,100 years ago. Its subject is spanda: the subtle pulsation underlying all experience, the vibration from which awareness arises and into which it settles.

This September, the Saturday Satsang becomes a 26-week reading of it. Two verses at a time, each paired with Kallaṭa's commentary, translated directly from the Sanskrit — the tradition explaining itself, in its own words.

Beginning September 12th, included in Sadhaka membership. Every session is recorded, so you can begin at any point. New members get 7 days free.

Details at the link in bio.
Led by Christopher Wallis

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24/07/2026

A new conversation on the podcast.

Hareesh sits down again with Dr. Ben Williams to talk about how these teachings have traveled — the origins of the Śiva Sūtras, the long tradition of writing commentaries on aphorisms that resist easy reading, and manuscript evidence of a lineage in Kashmir that held unbroken into the seventeenth century.

Much of what keeps a tradition alive is quiet work: scholars attending closely to a text, tracing a line back through the hands that carried it.

They also touch on Ben's collaborative work with devotional hymn literature, historical ritual manuals, and a new course on meditative practice.

Listen wherever you find the podcast.🎙️
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13/07/2026

What if our emotions are not obstacles to awakening, but doorways into a deeper experience of consciousness?In this teaching episode, Hareesh unpacks the Ta***ic theory of rasa—the experience of ordinary human emotions as sublime, universal beauty.

Drawing on the work of Abhinavagupta, he explores how great poetry, storytelling, and classic cinema resonate so deeply because they awaken something universal within us, revealing emotion itself as a doorway to spiritual awakening.

We also examine the classical theory of the nine rasas and its relevance to spiritual practice, inviting a radical shift in perspective: even grief, longing, and loss can be fully tasted as beautiful expressions of consciousness, woven into the grand dance of awareness itself.

Discover a treasure trove of guided meditations, teachings, and courses at ta**railluminated.org.Find out more about the upcoming retreats and pilgrimages at https://www.ta**railluminated.org/calendar. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts.

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05/07/2026

Christopher Hareesh Wallis on the foundational practices — and why their simplicity is precisely what lets them open infinitely with sustained attention.

A 7-day free trial of Foundations of Tantrik Yoga includes the full course and 14 meditations.

Membership at Ta**ra Illuminated Online opens access to over 1,000 hours of recorded teachings in the Trika, Kaula, and Krama lineages, monthly satsangs, and an active global student community.

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