शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

52 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
God, the Atma is supported like a piece of iron between two
magnets, the one pulling it higher and the other pulling
it lower. And in the human state, the iron is in closest
contact with the lower magnet, and in the Moksha with
the Higher Magnet. In Moksha, the power of maya to
undergo births alone is destroyed, by the Karma having
been eaten up, just as a seed of grain loses its power of
germination in the granary of the ant, by the sprout being
nibbled off or by some other process. In human evolution,
however, we find both the object and subject being evolved
together and there could be no evolution of the one without the
evolution of the other. In its original condition, what is here
called Thuriyathitha condition, the atma is pure Purusha with-
out consciousness of any sort, its body also being altogether
undevoloped. This is the stage before evolution had commenced.
The atma has no consciousness, no intelligence and no move-
ments of any sort. In the next condition (Thurya avastha)
evolution had been started, we have the first beginning of life,
Purusha, in a living breathing body, without consciousness or
any manifestation of any other faculties. They (mind and body)
are evolved a step further in the Sushupthi avastha, and we
have the first beginning of consciousness; and as such the
faculty of Chittam is evolved in addition; and the objective
body is then called Karana Sarira. A step further we arrive at
Swapna avastha, where all the faculties (objective consciousness)
except the 10 external senses (Gnana and Karma Indriyas) are
fully developed and the objective body is called Sukshuma or
astral body. In the final stage of evolution, where man's
consciousness has been fully developed, all the 36 tatwas formed
of Maya, have been also fully developed; this is the Jakra
avastha, and the body is the Sthula body. In this account of
human evolution, there is no transference really. Similarly
when the atma and its body undergo resolution, subjective and