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

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of God, undergoes transformation, while appearing as the pheno-
menon. But Śaivism sees God and His Śakti as simply two
names of one and the same reality seen in its two aspects. There-
fore it does not see any transformation of either God or His
divine power Śakti. The theory of material transformation works,
according to Śaivism, at a lower level of phenomenal evolution,
while the basic creation is something like a kind of transmutation
brought about by the supreme spontaneous unrestrictible, divine
and playful will of the theistic Absolute without any change in its
basic character.