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

26 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta universe in the manner of a reflection. Godhead is thus the essen- tial nature of the Absolute. Such theistic absolutism of Kashmir Śaivism does not require the concept of any element other than the Absolute. Avidyā of the post Śaṅkara Advaita Vedānta or vāsanā of the Buddhist philosophy is not needed here for the sake of the explanation of the phenomenal manifestation. Even Gauḍapāda and Śaṅkara have admitted such theistic nature of the Brahman in their Tāntric works and religio-philosophic lyrics. But such works of these teachers are being very often ignored by the Vedāntins. The powers named icchā, jñāna and kriyā are meant by the compound word icchā-saṃvit-karaṇaiḥ. Vikalpa is mental ideation. दर्पणबिम्बे यद्वन् नगरग्रामादि चित्रमविभागि । भाति विभागेनैव च परस्परं दर्पणादपि च ॥ १२॥ विमलतमपरमभैरवबोधात्तद्वद्विभागशून्यमपि । अन्योन्यं च ततोऽपि च विभक्तमाभाति जगदेतत् ॥ १३ ॥ 12. Darpaṇa-biṃbe yadvan nagara-grāmādi citramavibhāgi Bhāti vibhāgenaiva ca parasparaṃ darpaṇādapi ca. 13. Vimalatama-parama-bhairava- bodhāt tadvad vibhāga-śūnyamapi Anyonyaṃ ca tato'pi ca vibhaktamābhāti jagadetat. Just as the reflections of some multifarious types of objects like a town, a village, a forest and so on, shining inside a mirror, are not separate from it, but even then appear as different and separate from it and also from one another, so do all phenomena appear as mutually different and also as different from the absolutely pure and divinely perfect infinite consciousness known as the supreme Bhairava, the Almighty God, though in fact these are not at all different from Him. Reflections shining in a mirror are not in fact any phenomena that exist outside it, because these shine inside it. But even then these do not appear as one with it, but as entities other than it. Likewise, all phenomena, shining inside the psychic luminosity of I-consciousness, are in fact one with it. It is the I-consciousness which shines itself as such phenomena. But even then these appear