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

62 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 81. Iti janma-nāśa-hīnaṁ paramārtha- maheśvarākhyamupalabhya Upalabdhṛtā-prakāśāt kṛta-kṛtyas-tiṣṭhati yatheṣṭam. Having realized thus the beginningless and endless real Lord of the whole existence, the yogin rests as he likes in perfect satis- faction brought about by the awareness of his being such realizer. Realization of the Truth is not itself as full of taste as the awareness of one's having attained such realization. No other aim of life remains to be accomplished after the rise of satisfaction attained through such awareness. व्यापिनमभिहितमित्थं सर्वात्मानं विधूतनानात्वम् । निरूपमपरमानन्दं यो वेत्ति स तन्मयो भवति ॥ ८२ ॥ 82. Vyāpinamabhihitamitthaṁ sarvātmānaṁ vidhūtanānātvam Nirūpama-paramānandaṁ yo vetti sa tanmayo bhavati. The all pervading truth, as depicted above, is the self of all, has shed off all diversity and is the uncomparable infinite bliss. The person who realizes it like that becomes one with it. तीर्थे श्वपचगृहे वा नष्टस्मृतिरपि परित्यजन् देहम् । ज्ञानसमकालमुक्तः कैवल्यं याति हतशोकः ॥ ८३ ॥ 83. Tīrthe śvapaca-gṛhe vā naṣṭa-smṛtirapi parityajan deham Jñāna-sama-kāla-muktaḥ kaivalyaṁ yāti hata-śokaḥ. The yogin, having become liberated at the very time of his self-realization, may (afterwards) shed his body off at any sacred place like a tīrtha or at any dirty place like the house of a pariah. In both the cases he is freed from all misery and attains perfect liberation even if he loses his alertness at the time. Being completely alert and conscious about the reality at the time of death is not so essential for a person who has fully reali- zed his real nature of absolute purity, unity, divinity etc. Shed- ding off of his body at a sacred place like Kāśī or at a polluted place like the house of a pariah does not mean any merit or de- merit to him.