Bondage: self-veiling māyā, the six sheaths, and the unfolding of the psycho-cosmic categories
Ancient Abhinavagupta SanskritPS_15
paramaṃ yat svātantryaṃ durghaṭasaṃpādanaṃ maheśasya | devī māyāśaktiḥ svātmāvaraṇaṃ śivasya itat
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māyāparigrahavaśād bodho malinaḥ pumān paśur bhavati | kālakalāniyatibalād rāgāvidyāvaśena saṃbaddhaḥ
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adhunaiva kiṃcid evedam eva sarvātmanaiva jānāmi | māyāsahitaṃ kañcukaṣaṭkam aṇor antaraṅgam idam uktam
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kambukam iva taṇḍulakaṇaviniviṣṭaṃ bhinnam apy abhidā | bhajate tat tu viśuddhiṃ śivamārgaunmukhyayogena
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sukhaduḥkhamohamātraṃ niścayasaṃkalpanābhimānāc ca | prakṛtir athāntaḥkaranaṃ buddhimano'haṃkṛtikramaśaḥ
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śrotraṃ tvagakṣirasanā ghrāṇaṃ buddhīndriyāṇi śabdādau | vākpāṇipādapāyūpasthaṃ karmendriyāṇi punaḥ
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eṣāṃ grāhyo viṣayaḥ sūkṣmaḥ pravibhāgavarjito yaḥ syāt | tanmātrapañcakaṃ tat śabdaḥ sparśo maho raso gandhaḥ
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etatsaṃsargavaśāt sthūlo viṣayas tu bhūtapañcakatām | abhyeti nabhaḥ pavanas tejaḥ salilaṃ ca pṛthvī ca
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tuṣa iva taṇḍulakaṇikām āvṛṇute prakṛtipūrvakaḥ sargaḥ | pṛthvīparyanto 'yaṃ caitanyaṃ dehabhāvena
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param āvaraṇaṃ mala iha sūkṣmaṃ māyādikañcukaṃ sthūlam | bāhyaṃ vigraharūpaṃ kośatrayaveṣṭito hy ātmā