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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 41 tive revelation as illumines the pure and divinely potent nature of the self. It is the pure consciousness which keeps on shining in all the states of animation as the witnessing reality. It can neither be hidden by the waking state, nor by the dreaming one, nor by the sleeping one, all of which depend on it, because it is the basic light of consciousness pervading every function of a being. It alone illumines all the functions of animation in all these states. जाग्रद्विश्वं भेदात् स्वप्नस्तेजः प्रकाशमाहात्म्यात् । प्राज्ञः सुप्तावस्था ज्ञानघनत्वात् ततः परं तुर्यम् ॥ ३५ ॥ 35. Jāgrad viśvaṃ bhedāt svapnas tejaḥ prakāśa-māhātmyāt Prājñaḥ suptāvasthā jñāna-ghanatvāt tataḥ paraṃ turyam. The waking state, being full of diversity, is known as viśva, the phenomenon. The dreaming state is called tejas (light) because of its power to manifest. The sleeping state, (being aware of only the self,) is named prājña, the possessor of knowledge of the finite self. The state of Turyā is the compact self-knowledge lying above and beyond it. Generally the beings in such states are given such four names, but such states and the beings in them have together been men- tioned here through such four terms. जलधर-धूम-रजोभिर्मलिनीक्रियते यथा न गगनतलम् । तद्वन्मायाविकृतिभिरपरामृष्टः परः पुरुषः ॥ ३६ ॥ 36. Jaladhara-dhūma-rajobhir malinī- kriyate yathā na gagana-talam Tadvan-māyā-vikṛtibhiraparā- mṛṣṭaḥ paraḥ puruṣaḥ. Just as clouds, smoke and dust do not at all pollute the sky, so remains the transcendental self unaffected by the evolutes of Māyā. Five kañcukas are the direct evolutes of Māyā. They narrow down to the utmost the scope of the powers of a finite being. But since these five elements, along with Māyā itself, appear only like reflections inside the psychic luminosity of the supreme self, and do so only by virtue of the playful and divine power of the self, these cannot affect it at all. That is to say that the Lord does not undergo any change in His basic character and continues to be pure, infinite and divine consciousness even while appearing as