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

36 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta Bāhyaṃ vigraha-rūpaṃ kośa-traya-veṣṭito hyātmā. Mala, the basic impurity, is the finer covering of pure conscious- ness. Six cloaks from Māyā to Niyati are its subtle coverings and the external physical body is its gross covering. The Ātman is thus covered with these sheaths. God, hiding His purity, divinity etc., appears as a finite being who forgets his real nature and becomes ignorant about it. Such basic ignorance of a being regarding his purity, divinity, omni- science, omnipotence etc. is his finer covering. It conceals the very nature of his inner being and appears as his part and parcel. It is termed in Śaivism as mala or impurity. Māyā, along with its five evolutes called kañcukas, limiting the scope of the powers of a being, is his interior and subtle covering. His external gross covering is his individual body, both mental and physical. The real nature of the Ātman remains thus hidden under such three sheaths, the last one among which can be analysed further into two, the thinner one and the grosser one, that is, the mental one and the physical one. अज्ञानतिमिरयोगादेकमपि स्वं स्वभावमात्मानम् । ग्राह्यग्राहकनानावैचित्र्येणावबुद्ध्येत ॥ २५ ॥ 25. Ajñāna-timira-yogād-ekamapi svaṃ svabhāvamātmānam Grāhya-grāhaka-nānā- vaicitryeṇāvabuddhyeta. The finite being, suffering from the eye-disease of ignorance, sees his own self as a multifarious diversity of subjects and objects, while in reality he is only the monistic consciousness. The moon is one, but a person suffering from an eyedisease sees it as two. So does an ignorant being see his monistic divine nature as a complex diversity with the result he goes on commit- ting good and bad deeds and reaping the results of them in end- less cycles of births, deaths, rebirths etc. रसफाणितशर्करिकागुडखण्डाद्या यथेक्षुरस एव । तद्वदवस्थाभेदाः सर्वे परमात्मनः शम्भोः ॥ २६ ॥ 26. Rasa-phāṇita-śarkarikā- guḍa-khaṇḍādyā yathekṣu-rasa eva Tad-vadavasthā-bhedāḥ sarve paramātmanaḥ Śambhoḥ.