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

32 Paramārthāsāra of Abhinavagupta
17. Adhunaiva kiñcidevedameva
sarvātmanaiva jānāmi
Māyā-sahitaṃ kañcuka-
ṣaṭkamaṇorantaraṅgamidamuktam.
"I know only now and know just a little and just this much of
it quite completely"; such is the group of six sheaths including
Māyā. These have been taken as the six interior limitations of a
finite being.
The omnipotence of Śiva is reduced to the position of kalā in a
finite being. His omniscience becomes here the impure Vidyā. The
perfectness of Śiva is reduced here to rāga-tattva. His eternity is
brought down to the position of kāla-tattva and niyati-tattva occu-
pies the place of His complete independence.
The five pure elements discussed previously, and these six im-
pure elements raise the number of the tattvas in the process of
phenomenal evolution to eleven and puruṣa is the twelfth such
tattva. The six kañcukas, being the part and parcel of the person
of a finite being, are his interior limitations while the subtle
mental body and the gross material body are his exterior limita-
tions, because he wears them like clothes, changes the gross ones
and sheds them off, but the interior limitations of kañcukas have
become the essential nature of his person. A puruṣa is a puruṣa
because of these kañcukas; otherwise he should have been a pure
being residing in the plane of either pure Vidyā or Śakti.
कम्बुकमिव तण्डुलकणविनिविष्टं भिन्नमप्यभिदा ।
भजते तत्तु विशुद्धिं शिवमागौन्मुख्ययोगेन ॥ १८ ॥
18. Kambukamiva taṇḍulakaṇa-
viniviṣṭaṃ bhinnamapyabhidā
Bhajate tattu viśuddhiṃ
Śiva-mārgaunmukhya-yogena.
Though the group of five kañcukas is, in fact, different from
puruṣa, yet it is set in him in such a way as to appear to be non-
different from him, just like the thin yellowish covering of the
grains of rice. It can however be washed off by means of (a keenly
attentive and self contemplative) practice in Śaiva yoga.
Rice grains have two coverings. One is the outer chaff which
is removed by simple husking. But inside it there is a thin and
yellowish white covering which appears as the part and parcel
of the edible rice itself. It is often rubbed off only with the help