Śāmbhava creation, contraction of Śakti, and the bound soul (paśu)

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That creation whose manifestation is vivid and free of thought-construct [{{vikalpa:discursive, dichotomizing thought-construct}}] is held to be the Śāmbhava creation; in the non-dual fashioning of the self, the Self alone is made the instrument.

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The power of consciousness, whose essence is action and knowledge, by reason of its weaving out differentiation, reaches the level of kalā and vidyā and then comes forth again in the bursting-forth of difference.

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When that very [power], from whose activity arise the thought-constructs that are the multitude of means-of-knowledge and intellections — its activity now fragmented and re-fragmented — rises up as the effort of knowing,

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having attained the condition of an action-intellect and its senses, then it is called the bound soul [{{paśu:the bound, fettered soul, literally 'beast'}}]. Thus, by his own will, the Blessed Lord Bhairava lets himself be measured out [into limitation].

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And that Power, becoming limited in her operation, follows after him; from his [progressively] contracting condition through the states of Vidyeśa, Sadākhya, and Śiva, [he] comes down into a knowership identified with body, vital breath, intellect, and the void.

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His particular [private] creation is the manifold thought-construction of this and that, dependent upon him who is conditioned by the latent traces arisen from the Śaiva [cosmic] emission.

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This very knower, of just such a fashion, in the festival of [self-]apprehension, abides undistracted in his own Self — non-conceptual and made of consciousness.