Recognition: non-dual realization and 'I alone am all this'

PS_41

Earth, Prakṛti, and Māyā — this triad, fallen [merely] into the condition of objects-to-be-known, becomes, by the force of non-dual contemplation (advaita-bhāvanā), reduced to pure Being (sanmātra) alone.

PS_42

Just as girdle, earring, and bracelet are seen [simply] as gold once their distinctions are dropped, so, when distinctions are dropped, everything shines forth as pure Being alone.

PS_43

That supreme Brahman — pure, tranquil, non-dual in essence, the same [everywhere], whole [and complete], deathless, true — reposes in the radiant śakti (the Lord's dynamic power/energy) whose nature is light.

PS_44

[Brahman] is 'willed,' is 'known,' is 'brought to be' [only] through [that] radiant nature; yet that which remains [in itself] untouched [by such activity] amounts to a flower-in-the-sky [an unreal abstraction, if conceived apart from Śakti].

PS_45

By the conjoining [withdrawal] along the trident of the [three] powers (śakti), the whole [universe] is offered up [resorbed] by the God of gods into the supreme Lord, into the highest reality named Śiva.

PS_46

And then again, by the process of the unfolding of the five powers, that variegated triple aṇḍa (cosmic 'egg'/sphere) is emitted outward as well, [the Self] attaining its outward [manifest] form.

PS_47

Thus the God, setting in motion the mechanism of the wheel of powers as [an act of] play — 'I alone, of pure form, stand in the station of the lord of the great wheel of powers (śakti).'

PS_48

'In Me alone the universe shines, as pots and the like [shine] in a spotless mirror; from Me all streams forth, as the wondrous variety of dream [streams forth] from one asleep.'

PS_49

'I alone am of the form of all, as the body has [its] nature as hands, feet, and the rest; in all entities it is I alone who scintillate, like the very nature of light [shining in them].'

PS_50

'[Though I am] seer, hearer, smeller, [yet] devoid of body and organs, and [though] a non-doer, it is I alone who compose the varied [systems of] doctrine, scripture, and reasoning.'