Agama
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A body of Tantric scriptural injunction (such as Shivagama) specifying rules for worship, including where and how sacrifice is sanctioned — violating its rules for mere taste or sensory enjoyment forfeits any higher spiritual attainment.
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Proving the permitted alternative wrong as well leaves the next man with no source of energy at all
If that option is not there either, and you are set on proving the alternative that has been given to be wrong as well, then the next man will simply sit down with his hands struck together — ready to be cut, with no source of energy left, no deva swaroop, no divine grace. In the tangle of niyam and nishedh, he says, a mistake of that order should not be made, that a person abandon his own nitya naimittik life. Hence he keeps within rule and maryada and simplifies.
Kashmir sorted the Agamas into Saiva, Rudra and Bhairava — and Shakta Tantra grew out of the Bhairava group
Agamas were authoritative ritual texts, classified in 4th–5th century Kashmir into Saiva (dualistic), Rudra (mixed), and Bhairava (staunchly non-dualistic/advaita) — and it was from the Bhairava Agamas that Shakta Tantra, centered on the Divine Feminine, developed.
Tantric in method, Vedic in alignment, and state religion of the Khmer Empire at Angkor
Saiva Siddhanta was a dualistic, tantric-in-method but Vedic-aligned school whose Agamas covered everything from temple architecture to royal coronation rites — influential enough across India and Southeast Asia that it became the state religion of the Khmer Empire at Angkor.
Authority drawn from the sixty-four Bhairava Agamas, and complete identity with Para Bhairava as the goal
The Non-Siddhantika Mantramarga centered on Bhairava worship, drew authority from the sixty-four Bhairava Agamas, and aimed at the practitioner realizing complete identity with Para Bhairava — the supreme, all-encompassing state of divine consciousness — making it a major source for later Shakta Tantra.
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