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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 47 इति शक्तिचक्रयन्त्रं क्रीडायोगेन वाहयन् देवः । अहमेव शुद्धरूपः शक्तिमहाचक्रनायकपदस्थः ॥ ४७ ॥ 47. Iti śakti-cakra-yantraṁ krīḍā- yogena vāhayan devaḥ Ahameva śuddha-rūpaḥ śakti-mahā- cakra-nāyaka-padasthaḥ. Putting thus playfully the machine of the circle of divine powers in motion, I am myself the Lord, with purity as my nature, working at the highest post as the master hero of the infinite wheel of Śaktis or divine powers. Concluding the discussions noted above, an aspirant realizes that he is not a finite being but the great Lord who is the only hero having the multitudes of divine powers as His heroins. He feels actually that he is himself activating playfully the whole circle of such powers, the primary one among which are five: (1) cit, (2) ānanda, (3) icchā, (4) jñāna, and (5) kriyā. Their amalgamated unity appears in twelve forms in the process of all psychic activities of all beings and are known as Śakti-cakra or the group of twelve Kālīs. Such Kālīs absorb in them the psychic activities of all subjects, the functions of their psychic apparatus and the objective elements that become foci of such activities. A successful practitioner of Śaivism realizes and visualizes such fact through his personal experience. मय्येव भाति विश्वं दर्पण इव निर्मले घटादीनि । मत्तः प्रसरति सर्वं स्वप्नविचित्रत्वमिव सुप्तात् ॥ ४८ ॥ 48. Mayyeva bhāti viśvaṁ darpaṇa iva nirmale ghaṭādīni Mattaḥ prasarati sarvaṁ svapna- vicitratvamiva suptāt. Having a direct realization of his dynamic Godhead, an adept practitioner of Kashmir Śaivism feels like this: "The whole universe appears in me, just as objects like a pitcher etc. appear in a clear mirror; everything flows out from me, just as the manifold variety of the dream world emanates from the dreaming person." A successful Śivayogin, realizing his real nature, feels all pheno- mena as the wonderful reflections of his own divine powers. He