Breakthrough in Fear and Hunger
Bhairava
Strong feelings like fear, grief, hunger, or sudden curiosity can shake you out of ordinary habits. This verse says those charged moments can also reveal a deeper presence if you notice them carefully. Instead of resisting the intensity, you can use it as a doorway to awareness.
विज्ञानभैरव तन्त्रम् क्षुताद्यन्ते भये शोके गह्वरे वा रणाद्द्रुते । कुतूहलेक्षुधाद्यन्ते ब्रह्मसत्तामयी दशा ॥ ११८ ॥
vijñānabhairava tantram kṣutādyante bhaye śoke gahvare vā raṇād drute | kutūhalekṣudhādyante brahmasattāmayī daśā || 118 ||
Translation
At the end of hunger and other such states, in fear, sorrow, in a cave, or when fleeing from battle, at the end of curiosity and hunger, there is a state filled with the presence of Brahman.
Use intense emotional or physiological thresholds as openings into a Brahman-filled state.