What recognition is

Pratyabhijñā: you don't need to become someone new. You need to remember what you already are.

Pratyabhijñā translates as «recognition». The whole path of Kashmir Shaivism rests on a simple turn: you already are what you seek, and practice only lifts the forgetting. From here come both the gentleness and the power of the method.

This is a short introduction. You can find the other introductions in the Library.