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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 33
of a polisher fitted in a husking machine. Rice shines in snow
white colour only after the removal of such inner covering known
in Kashmiri language as komb, Sanskrit kambuka. Likewise, the
six kañcukas appear as part and parcel of the finite subject whose
real nature can shine brilliantly only after washing away such
coverings of kañcukas by means of Śaiva yoga.
सुखदुःखमोहमात्रं निश्चयसङ्कल्पनाभिमानाच्च ।
प्रकृतिरथान्तःकरणं बुद्धिमनोऽहङ्कृति क्रमशः ॥ १६ ॥
19. Sukha-duḥkha-moha-mātram
niścaya-saṅkalpanābhimānācca
Prakṛtirathāntaḥkaraṇam
buddhimano'haṅkṛti kramaśaḥ.
Prakṛti is the even amalgamation of simple pleasure, pain and
delusion (or ignorance) and the three interior instrumental ele-
ments are (i) buddhi, the understanding sense that forms definite
conceptions, (ii) manas, or mind, the organ of such thinking as
gives rise to indefinite ideations (about phenomena) and (iii)
ahaṅkāra, the egoist sense that connects such psychic activities
with the finite subject.
Prakṛti is the initial objective element that becomes the focus of
the activities of the finite subject who feels it afterwards either as
pleasure or pain or simple ignorance. Such three feelings are
known respectively as Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, the three guṇas.
Prakṛti is that state of the complete amalgamation of three guṇas
in which these do not at all appear in their separate individual
character. It is their absolute equilibrium. Both Puruṣa and Prakṛti
are the creations of Lord Anantanātha. Lord Īśvara, desended to
the plane of threee guṇas is known as Śrīkaṇṭhanātha. Umāpati-
nātha is another divine form of Śrīkaṇṭhanātha. He is the Śiva of
epics and purāṇas. Śrīkaṇṭhanātha shakes up Prakṛti, disturbs the
equilibirium of the guṇas and creates the instrumental and objec-
tive elements out of it through a process of transformation. The
first result of such transformation is the creation of interior senses
including ego and the last one is that of gross physical elements
known as bhūtas. Sāṁkhya system maintains that Prakṛti under-
goes transformation into instrumental and objective elements by
virtue of its own essential nature, without any help from any
quarters. But Śaivism declares that Lord Śrīkaṇṭhanātha directs it,
disturbs its equilibrium and transforms it into the twenty-three