Shiva Sutras: The Yoga of Supreme Identity

Jaideva Singh was a scholar of Kashmir Shaivism, and this Motilal Banarsidass book is his scholarly translation and study of the Shiva Sutras, a foundational text of nondual Kashmir Shaiva yoga. Its strength is that Singh worked within and was trained in the Kashmir Shaiva tradition itself while also producing a scholarly critical translation, giving the work both insider fluency with the material and academic rigor in its presentation. Its limit is that it is a specialist translation and commentary aimed at readers with some background in the tradition's technical vocabulary, so a reader wanting a general introduction to Kashmir Shaivism as a whole needs a broader introductory source alongside this focused study.