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

74 Glossary
Aśuddha-vidyā—The limited knowing capacity of a finite being.
One of the five limiting factors known as kañcukas.
Ānanda-śakti—One of the five primary powers of God. The bliss-
fulness of the infinite consciousness. That natural power of God
which makes Him playful towards His divine activities. It
shines predominantly in Śiva-tattva, and Śakti-tattva is the result
of its outward manifestation.
Āṇava-mala (i)—That type of the impurity of finitude on account
of which a being takes insentient and finite entities, capable
to do just a little, as his self. It becomes manifest in Sakalas and
Pralayakālas.
Āṇava-mala (ii)—That type of the impurity of finitude on account
of which a being takes pure but inactive consciousness as his
self and forgets his divine potency.
Āvaraṇa-traya—Three Coverings of the absolute and divine cons-
ciousness. (i) Āṇava-impurity, (ii) Māyā and other kañcukaś
and (iii) physical form.
Bhairava—The absolute and pure consciousness that creates out
of itself, bears, sustains, rears, grasps and absorbs in it all
phenomena. Almighty God. Śiva.
Bhāvanā—Contemplative meditation by means of constant repe-
tition of the correct conceptional knowledge of the truth.
Practice in correct and pure vikalpa knowledge. Jñānayoga-
Śāktopāya. Bhāvanā is practised even in Āṇava upāya by means
of contemplation on the exact reality about an objective ele-
ment. Śāmbhavopāya alone is free from bhāvanā.
Bhuvana—An abode of beings. Kashmir Śaivism maintains that
main bhuvanas are 118 in number.
Brahman—That infinite reality which evolves into all phenomena.
Cit-śakti—The power of consciousness. The first and the nearest
one among the five primary powers of Parama-śiva. It shines
predominantly in Parama-śiva, the Absolute, and is the source
of the manifestation of Śiva-tattva in which Ānanda-śakti be-
comes predominantly evident.
Icchā-śakti—The power of will. One of the primary powers of the
Almighty God. It is a sort of an urge that makes Him inclined
to conduct the five divine activities of Godhead. It shines