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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 51 standing and vijñāna is its actual experience in practical life. A person may be thoroughly convinced at the level of his intellect about the correctness of the principle of theistic monism, but may still feel himself to be a finite being different from God before he experiences actually his divinity and absolute unity through the vijñāna of the truth. Such vijñāna alone can annihilate all accumu- lated deeds known as sañcita-karman. ज्ञानप्राप्तौ कृतमपि न फलाय ततोऽस्य जन्म कथम् । गतजन्मबन्धयोगो भाति शिवार्व, स्वदीधितिभिः ॥ ५६ ॥ 56. Jñāna-prāptau kṛtamapi na phalāya tato'sya janma katham Gata-janma-bandha-yogo bhāti Śivārkaḥ sva-dīdhitibhiḥ. Deeds committed by a person after the development of correct knowledge cannot in any way bear him any fruit. How can there be any rebirth for him? Sun-like Śiva, having annihilated the very relation with the bondage of rebirth, shines eternally through His divine rays. The past actions of a Śivayogin become annihilated. His present actions are reduced to ineffectiveness. No cause for any more rebirth remains existent in his case. Shedding off his physi- cal form at the end of his current life, he frees himself from the finitude of individuality as well and, realizing himself as none other than the absolute Śiva, he starts to shine eternally through the rays of his divine powers. तुष-कम्बुक-किंशारुक-मुक्तं बीजं यथाङ्कुरं कुरुते । नैव तथाणवमाया-कर्म-विमुक्तो भवाङ्कुरं ह्यात्मा ॥ ५७ ॥ 57. Tuṣa-kambuka-kiṁśāruka-muktaṁ bījaṁ yathāṅkuraṁ kurute Naiva tathāṇava-māyā-karma- vimukto bhavāṅkuraṁ hyātmā. Just as a paddy seed, shorn of the outer husk, the inner yellow- ish covering and the germ of the plant, cannot sprout into a seedling; so does not the Ātman, freed from the impurities of finitude, diversity and past deeds, undergo any rebirth. The yellowish thin covering of rice, which is often rubbed off with the help of polisher in a husking machine, is called kambuka. A small round particle, stationed in one corner of the grain, and