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Swami Lakshman Joo Raina (9 May 1907 – 27 September 1991) was a mystic and scholar of Kashmir Shaivism or Trika. He was known as ''Lal Sahib'' ("Friend of God") by followers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swami Lakshmanjoo )〕 == Biography == Lakshman Joo was born in Srinagar, Kashmir. He was the fifth child in a household of four boys and five girls. His father Naraindas Raina (also known as Nav Narayan) was the first man to have introduced houseboats in Kashmir. His mother's name was Arnyamali. He was introduced to the path of spirituality and to the principles of Kashmir Shaivism by his family priest Ram and later by his disciple Mehtab Kak. At the age of 20, it is said, he experienced self-realisation. Shortly afterwards he left home, as he wrote, "in search of the Supreme" and moved to the famous ashram of Sadhamalyun (Sadhuganga) in Handwara. Perswaded by his father to return to Srinagar, he continued to study Sanskrit and Shaiva philosophy under the guidance of a scholar named Maheshwar Razdan. In 1934-35, he moved to the Nishat suburb of Srinagar where his parents built him a house a few hundred metres from the Nishat Gardens, the place where Abhinavagupta had lived nine centuries before. Around the age of 30 he travelled to India, spending time on a Bombay beach and a short time with Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram and then with Aurobindo at Pondicherry. From there he found his way to Tiruvannamalai to meet Ramana Maharshi. There he spent some weeks and later commented; "I felt those golden days were indeed divine". He returned to Kashmir and has lived and taught there until his death in 1991, giving weekly lectures on the mystical and philosophical texts of Kashmir Shaivism. Many of these lectures were audio recorded by John Hughes and later published. Lakshman Joo's interpretation of Kashmir Shavism attracted the attention of a number of western Indologists, and his visitors included a number of Sanskrit scholars, such as Lilian Silburn, André Padoux, Jaideva Singh, Rameshwar Jha, Jankinath Kaul "Kamal", Gherardo Gnoli, Alexis Sanderson and Mark Dyczkowski. His teachings also influenced Paul Reps, whose rendering of the ''Vijnana Bhairava Tantra'', later used by Osho, brought the meditation methods of his school to international prominence, and Miguel Serrano, a controversial writer from Chile.〔Miguel Serrano, ''The Serpent of Paradise : The Story of an Indian Pilgrimage'', London: Rider (); New York: Harper & Row (American ed., 1972 ) ISBN 0-06-090284-1; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (ed., 1974 ), ISBN 0-7100-7784-X & ISBN 0-7100-7785-8〕 The teachings of Lakshman Joo are carried on by a local organisation Ishwar Ashram Trust which was founded by him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lakshman Joo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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