Self-reflection of the Lord and his descent through the levels; the six paths

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By the innate nature of consciousness, this God, the Lord, reflecting upon himself by his own self [{{vimarśa / vimṛśan:self-reflective awareness of consciousness}}], takes on the stages ranging from the 'unsupported' [anāśrita] down to the level of earth.

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Therein, from the Lord's single vibration [{{spanda:the subtle creative vibration of consciousness}}] whose nature is signifier and signified — each unfolding in a sequence of gross, subtle, and supreme manifestation — arises the sixfold character of the path [ṣaḍvidha-adhvan].

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The sequence [krama] whose nature is space and time is the very life-breath of differentiation among the [individual] awarenesses; through this rupture the knower is rendered into a manifoldness of varied appearances.

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There are, indeed, two modes here, by the distinction of pure and impure: purity is the sinking of the externalized objects back into one's own pure I-ness [{{ahaṃ / aham:the pure 'I' / supreme subjectivity}}].

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Impurity, by contrast, is when [the objects], though submerged, do not thus find repose in the Heart. And even within this interval there may be endless gradations of states, by degrees of more and less.

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In the manifesting of knowers, whose knowables are [each] fitting and unfitting [to them], the shared and the separate modes split apart into knower and known [mātṛ and meya].