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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 61 along with turning round of a series of beeds. A Śivayogin catches hold of the series of one hundred and eighteen bhuvanas etc. through his imagination and visualizes them, item by item, as being contained inside his I-consciousness through a relation of unity or identity. Such repetiton of the conception of his unity with certain regular series in the phenomenal existence serves him as repetition of a Mantra. सर्वं समया दृष्ट्या यत् पश्यति यच्च संविदं मनुते । विश्वश्मशाननिरतां विग्रहखट्वाङ्गकल्पनाकलिताम् ॥ ७९ ॥ विश्वरसासवपूर्णं निजकरगं वेद्यखण्डककपालम् । रसयति च यत्तदेतद् व्रतमस्य सुदुर्लभं च सुलभं च ॥ ८० ॥ 79. Sarvaṃ samayā dṛṣṭyā yat paśyati yacca saṃvidaṃ manute Viśva-śmaśāna-niratāṃ vigraha-khaṭvāṅga-kalpanā- kalitām. 80. Viśva-rasāsava-pūrṇaṃ nija-karagaṃ vedya-khaṇḍaka-kapālam Rasayati ca yattadetad vratamasya sudurlabhaṃ ca sulabhaṃ ca. He sees everything through a viewpoint of equality and takes his I-consciousness as residing in the whole universe as (the necessary) cremation ground (to live in). Having his own physical body as the necessary human skeleton, holding the broken jar of objective existence filled with the wine of universal tastefulness in his hand and tasting it, he observes his wonderful (Pāśupata) vow which is very easy but, at the same time, very rare. The vow of a Pāśupata monk involves elements like living in a cremation ground, wearing of human bones as ornaments, using the scullbone as a bowl to drink wine and so on. All such elements of the vow of a Śivayogin are only symbolic in character as depic- ted above. The firm viewpoint of equality is his vrata. The whole objective existence, filled with everything mortal, is the cremation ground for him. There he lives in the form of pure and universal I-consciousness. Seeing everything as self, he drinks the wine of self-bliss filled in the whole phenomenon. Such a vow is spon- taneous but can be observed by very few. It is thus easy but rare. इति जन्मनाशहीनं परमार्थमहेश्वराख्यमुपलभ्य । उपलब्धृताप्रकाशात् कृतकृत्यस्तिष्ठति यथेष्टम् ॥ ८१ ॥