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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 35 pendent entities. It is the ego which takes them up as its parti- culars and shines itself in these five forms. एतत्संसर्गवशात् स्थूलो विषयस्तु भूतपञ्चकताम् । अभ्येति नभः पवनस्तेजः सलिलं च पृथ्वी च ॥ २२ ॥ 22. Etat-saṁsarga-vaśāt sthūlo viṣayastu bhūta-pañcakatām Abhyeti nabhaḥ pavanas-tejaḥ salilaṁ ca pṛthvī ca. The gross objective existence, evolved through the mixing up of these five subtle objects, appears as the five gross physical ele- ments called pañca-bhūtas which are: ether, air, fire, water and earth. Five subtle objects of senses, when mixed together and disturbed, get evolved into five gross elements of physical existence. These have the subtle objects as their special attributes called viśeṣa- guṇas. The creation of gross objective elements is something like the coagulation of the subtle ones. तुष इव तण्डुलकणिकामावृणुते प्रकृतिपूर्वकः सर्गः । पृथ्वीपर्यन्तोऽयं चैतन्यं देहभावेन ॥ २३ ॥ 23. Tuṣa iva taṇḍula-kaṇikāmāvṛṇute prakṛti-pūrvakaḥ sargaḥ Pṛthvī-paryanto'yaṁ caitanyaṁ dehabhāvena. Just as husk covers a grain of rice, so do all these created elements, right from prakṛti to earth, become the subtle and gross bodies of the finite I-consciousness and cover and conceal it completely. Both subtle and gross bodies of a being are evolved out of an admixture of elements from prakṛti to earth. Such bodies form the outer covering of I-consciousness, which takes them as its self. But kañcukas, constituting the very finitude of the finite conscious- ness, shine as its essential part and parcel and are therefore its interior covering. परमावरणं मल इह सूक्ष्मं मायादि कञ्चुकं स्थूलम् । बाह्यं विग्रहरूपं कोशत्रयवेष्टितो ह्यात्मा ॥ २४ ॥ 24. Paramāvaraṇaṁ mala iha sūkṣmaṁ māyādi-kañcukaṁ sthūlam