परमार्थसार (महामाहेश्वर अभिनवगुप्त - त्रिक-दर्शन, अद्वैत शैव साधना एवं सान्वय सटीक)

Introduction 19 of God, undergoes transformation, while appearing as the pheno- menon. But Śaivism sees God and His Śakti as simply two names of one and the same reality seen in its two aspects. There- fore it does not see any transformation of either God or His divine power Śakti. The theory of material transformation works, according to Śaivism, at a lower level of phenomenal evolution, while the basic creation is something like a kind of transmutation brought about by the supreme spontaneous unrestrictible, divine and playful will of the theistic Absolute without any change in its basic character.