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

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta 61
along with turning round of a series of beeds. A Śivayogin catches
hold of the series of one hundred and eighteen bhuvanas etc.
through his imagination and visualizes them, item by item, as
being contained inside his I-consciousness through a relation
of unity or identity. Such repetiton of the conception of his unity
with certain regular series in the phenomenal existence serves him
as repetition of a Mantra.
सर्वं समया दृष्ट्या यत् पश्यति यच्च संविदं मनुते ।
विश्वश्मशाननिरतां विग्रहखट्वाङ्गकल्पनाकलिताम् ॥ ७९ ॥
विश्वरसासवपूर्णं निजकरगं वेद्यखण्डककपालम् ।
रसयति च यत्तदेतद् व्रतमस्य सुदुर्लभं च सुलभं च ॥ ८० ॥
79. Sarvaṃ samayā dṛṣṭyā
yat paśyati yacca saṃvidaṃ manute
Viśva-śmaśāna-niratāṃ
vigraha-khaṭvāṅga-kalpanā- kalitām.
80. Viśva-rasāsava-pūrṇaṃ
nija-karagaṃ vedya-khaṇḍaka-kapālam
Rasayati ca yattadetad
vratamasya sudurlabhaṃ ca sulabhaṃ ca.
He sees everything through a viewpoint of equality and takes
his I-consciousness as residing in the whole universe as (the
necessary) cremation ground (to live in). Having his own physical
body as the necessary human skeleton, holding the broken jar of
objective existence filled with the wine of universal tastefulness in
his hand and tasting it, he observes his wonderful (Pāśupata)
vow which is very easy but, at the same time, very rare.
The vow of a Pāśupata monk involves elements like living in a
cremation ground, wearing of human bones as ornaments, using
the scullbone as a bowl to drink wine and so on. All such elements
of the vow of a Śivayogin are only symbolic in character as depic-
ted above. The firm viewpoint of equality is his vrata. The whole
objective existence, filled with everything mortal, is the cremation
ground for him. There he lives in the form of pure and universal
I-consciousness. Seeing everything as self, he drinks the wine of
self-bliss filled in the whole phenomenon. Such a vow is spon-
taneous but can be observed by very few. It is thus easy but rare.
इति जन्मनाशहीनं परमार्थमहेश्वराख्यमुपलभ्य ।
उपलब्धृताप्रकाशात् कृतकृत्यस्तिष्ठति यथेष्टम् ॥ ८१ ॥