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

Glossary 77 Nirvṛti-śakti—The same as Ānanda-śakti Niyati-tattva—That law of nature on which stands the law of causation in the whole phenomenal existence. That tattva of limitation which binds a being by the law of causation in all doing, knowing and feeling interested. One of the five kañcuka- tattvas. Pañca-kṛtya—Five divine activities of God viz., creation, preser- vation, absorption, obscuration and revelation. Pañca-śakti—Five primary divine powers of God viz., cit, ānanda, icchā, jñāna and kriyā. Para-brahman—The absolute reality having complete Godhead as its basic nature. That reality which is absolutely infinite, consists of pure consciousness alone and becomes evolved into all phenomena by virtue of its divine potency and natural tendency towards five divine activities. Paramārtha—The actual reality. The eternal truth. The Absolute God. Paramārtha-mārga—The path that leads to the position of Abso- lute Godhead. Parama-śiva—That reality out of which thirty-six tattvas evolve and into which all of them get absorbed. The infinite, eternal perfect, all-containing, independent, divinely potent, blissful, playful and absolutely monistic pure consciousness aware of itself and its basic nature. Para-tattva—Parama-śiva, the absolute reality. Pārthiva aṇḍa—The sphere of solid and gross matter. The outer- most covering of the pure and divinely potent consciousness consisting of pṛthivī-tattva. Nivṛtti kalā. Paśu—A bonded being bound by the chains of (i) finitude, (ii) diversity and (iii) deeds (good and bad). A being entangled in the courses of the cycles of transmigration. Piddhāna-kṛtya—God's activity of obscuration. A person under its effect loses faith in śāstra, guru, his teachings and sādhanā. That activity of God which pushes down beings into deeper and deeper regions of bondage. Prājña—A being in the state of dreamless sleep (suṣupti). Prakāśa—That psychic light of consciousness which makes it evident to itself and which brings to light the objects coming into its contact. The self evident consciousness.