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

50 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta The evil of bad company is indeed very dangerous. It is like an honest man's company with a thief. Deeds are actually conducted by bodies, senses and organs of finite beings under invariable and invisible direction from God. But, being under a deep effect of incorrect knowledge, we feel that we are ourselves doing them. A deep impression of such feel- ing makes us responsible for the results of such deeds; otherwise, if we see things through the correct angle of vision, and feel con- sequently that the divine powers of God are directing and driving the senses and organs of all living beings, we will not develop any impression of our responsibility for any deeds. लोकव्यवहारकृतां य इहाविद्यामुपासते मूढाः । ते यान्ति जन्ममृत्यु धर्माधर्मार्गलाबद्धाः ॥ ५४ ॥ 54. Loka-vyavahāra-kṛtāṁ ya ihāvidyām- upāsate mūḍhāḥ Te yānti janma-mṛtyu dharmādharmārgalā-baddhāḥ. Deluded people, adhering to incorrect knowledge based on mundane transactions, undergo births and deaths on account of their being bound by the chains of piety and sin. A yogin, having developed correct knowledge, and feeling con- sequently that all deeds are being done by the divine powers of God, is not at all involved in the chains of karman, because it is the egoistic conception of one's having done such and such deeds that makes him responsible for their fruits. The impression of such conceptions is known as karmasaṁskāra. It gives rise to a natural disposition towards rebirth to reap the fruits of such deeds. अज्ञानकालनिचितं धर्माधर्मात्मकं तु कर्मापि । चिरसञ्चितमिव तूलं नश्यति विज्ञानदीप्तिवशात् ॥ ५५ ॥ 55. Ajñāna-kāla-nicitaṁ dharmādharmā- tmakaṁ tu karmāpi Cira-sañcitamiva tūlaṁ naśyati vijñāna-dīpti-vaśāt. Good and bad deeds, accumulated during the period of ignor- ance, are destroyed like heaps of cotton collected since long, by the power of the burning effulgence of actually correct knowledge. Jñāna is the knowledge of the Truth at the level of one's under-