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

40 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta body and pure animation is the gross covering that hides the real nature of the self. The subtle covering is the multitude of multi- farious conceptual cognitions being always formed by his under- standing capacity. The finer covering is his feeling of I-ness with regard to pure but finite individual consciousness, freed from all subjective and objective ideas. It can be compared to the nihility of the void. These are the amplifications with which the natural infinity, purity, eternity, divinity etc. of the potent and pure cons- ciousness of a being become concealed and remain hidden. Since God appears as all beings, it is He who conceals wonderfully His real nature in this way. स्व-ज्ञान-विभव-भासन-योगेनोद्वेष्टयेन्निजात्मानम् । इति बन्ध-मोक्ष-चित्रां क्रीडां प्रतनोति परमशिवः ॥ ३३॥ 33. Sva-jñāna-vibhava-bhāsana- yogenodveṣṭayennijātmānam, Iti bandha-mokṣa-citrāṃ krīḍāṃ pratanoti Paramaśivaḥ. Sometimes the Lord may Himself unbound and reveal His real nature by means of yoga that illumins the infinite luxury of one's self-knowledge. Paramaśiva, the Absolute God, plays thus His wonderful game of bondage and liberation. Bondage is not basically due to any foriegn element like Avidyā, but is due to the very divine nature of the absolute reality itself. God, shorn of such playful nature, would be reduced to the posi- tion of insentient pure space. It is such playfulness which is His natural Godhead. Neither bondage nor liberation can basically be due to anything other than such divine nature of God. सृष्टि-स्थिति-संहारा जाग्रत्स्वप्नौ सुषुप्तमिति तस्मिन् । भान्ति तुरीये धामनि तथापि तैर्नावृतं भाति ॥ ३४॥ 34. Sṛṣṭi-sthiti-saṃhārā jāgrat-svapnau suṣuptamiti tasmin Bhānti turīye dhāmani tathāpi tair nāvṛtaṃ bhāti. All creation, preservation and absorption, as well as the states of waking, dreaming and sleeping shine inside the (divine) light of the fourth state of animation which does not even then appear to be hidden by such phenomena. Turyā, the fourth state of animation, is the state of such intui-