In these beautiful verses, the relation of Shiva and Shakti is described in elegantly simple terms.
Vijñana-bhairava-tantra verses 7-16: Bhairava's Answer
The Nature of Reality
How to Recognize that You are God (IPK 1.1.1-5)
The Stanzas on Pulsation (Spanda-karika), Second Flow
The Stanzas on Pulsation (Spanda-karika), First Flow
How a Nondual Tantrika Practices (Tantrasaara Chapter Four, Part 3)
The Ways to Liberation (Tantraloka 1 cont'd)
The Empowered Method (Tantrasaara Chapter Four, Part 1)
The Divine Method (Tantrasaara Chapter Three, Part 1)
The Pathless Path (Tantrasaara Chapter 2)
Chapter Two of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrasaara teaches the (rare) possibility of spontaneous realization of the Truth without the need for any spiritual practice or method. This chapter contains one of Abhinava’s most powerful and direct pointing-out instructions! He puts the realization of ultimate Truth into the first person for you to savor.
The nature of awareness (Tantraloka 1 cont'd)
In this section of the text, Abhinava discusses the nature of Awareness as the ground of all being. He breaks down sentience & insentience, gradations of awareness, individuated awareness vs. overarching Awareness, what full realization entails, and refutes objective materialism, all in the course of just five Sanskrit verses!
