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

60 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta
a Śivayogin practising Śāktopāya. All the mental conceptions of
diverse character are the heaps of grain to be offered into it as
oblations. Such a homa of a Śivayogin proceeds on without any
effort on his part as all his objective ideas become dissolved auto-
matically into the monistic conception of the pure and infinite
I-consciousness, which alone shines afterwards through its own
psychic lustre.
ध्यानमनस्तमितं पुनरेष हि भगवान् विचित्ररूपाणि ।
सृजति तदेव ध्यानं सङ्कल्पालिखितसत्यरूपत्वम् ॥ ७७ ॥
77. Dhyānamanastamitaṁ punar-
eṣa hi bhagavān vicitra-rūpāṇi
Sṛjati tadeva dhyānaṁ
saṅkalpālikhita-satya-rūpatvam.
Such a master of divine authority goes on creating objects of
multifarious character (inside his understanding sense) and that
becomes his constant meditation, forming conceptions of his (pure
and divine) real nature.
The word dhyāna is meant here to denote a special type of self-
contemplative meditation called Śāktopāya. Such a yogin does not
meditate upon anything like the form of a deity or some nerve
centre in the physical body, as do the dhyānayogins of the school
of Patañjali. Successive rise of a chain of objective ideas in
his mind is visualized by him as his own independent creation,
suggesting his divinely potent and pure nature of Godhead. The
flow of such conceptions, resulting in the realization of the divine
nature of the self, is the meditation practised by a Śivayogin in
the process of Śāktopāya.
भुवनावलीं समस्तां तत्त्वक्रमकल्पनामथाक्षगणम् ।
अन्तर्बोधे परिवर्तयति यत् सोऽस्य जप उदितः ॥ ७८ ॥
78. Bhuvanāvalīṁ samastāṁ
tattva-krama-kalpanām-athākṣa-gaṇam
Antar bodhe parivartayati
yat so'sya japa uditaḥ.
He turns round, within the thread of his inner consciousness,
either the whole series of bhuvanas or the arrangement of the
order of tattvas or the group of the instrumental elements and
that is said to be his japa.
Japa is ordinarily a constant repetition of a religious formula