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

Glossary 79 who has a consequent awareness of it in the form of "I am this." Sakala-being—A bonded being infested with all the three types of mala (impurity) and revolving in the cycles of births and deaths. A bonded being, a paśu. Samāveśa—A sudden charge of Godhead. A psychic state in which one's individuality becomes one with the infinite universal self. The state of the merger of one's jīvahood into Śivahood. Saṃhāra—Absorption. Dissolution. That divine activity of God through which certain phenomena become absorbed into their causal elements. Spanda—The spiritual throbbing of consciousness. Such a vibra- tory activity of consciousness which brings about the manifes- tation of its extroversion and introversion. That divine active nature of God which manifests externally His divine nature and results in the show of His five divine activities. Sṛṣṭi—That divine activity of creation through which all pheno- mena, contained in God in the form of pure consciousness, be- come manifest in their phenomenal aspect. Sthiti—That divine activity of preservation through which the whole phenomenon is sustained for long aeons and is run as a cosmos in acordance with niyati, the law of nature. Suṣupti—The state of deep sleep. Svapna—The states of dreaming, deep thinking, meditating and so on. Svātantrya—That perfect self dependence of God by virtue of which He manages the whole show of His five divine activities without any external help of any element like the Māyā of Vedānta, Vāsanā of Buddhism, Prakṛti of Sāṃkhya and atoms of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika. Taijasa—A being in dreaming state. Tanmātras—Five undifferentiated subtle objects of five senses, viz., śabda, sparśa, rūpa, rasa and gandha. Tirodhāna—The divine activity of oblivion. The act of pidhāna or vilaya. Such divine activity of God through which He pushes down beings into darker and darker species and also in stronger chains of bondage. Trika—The best system of yoga patronized by the authors of the Pratyabhijñā śāstra. The trinity of (i) Śiva, (ii) Śakti and nara (the bonded soul and his insentient phenomena).