The Anuttara, the visarga, and the union (yāmala) of Śiva and Śakti

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The inner act and the outer act of the Self you bring about free of temporal sequence and dependent on nothing else — for you are brimming with sovereign power [{{anuttara:the Unsurpassable / Absolute, the 'a' of Trika}}].

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The coupling [{{yāmala / saṃghaṭṭa:the paired union / fusion of Śiva and Śakti}}] of Śiva and Śakti is the pairing of repose and arising, whose essence is the Anuttara and the emission [{{visarga:emission / creative outpouring, also the phoneme ḥ}}]; and in the interval between them lie the other powers.

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Bliss, will, lordship, and opening-forth [unmeṣa] — and a [relative] deficiency belonging to lordship and to will: through these two [arises], by the distinction of indistinct and distinct, the surging-forth of the knowable [vedya] from awareness.

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And from Bliss and the Anuttara comes the state of conjunction; then cognition, which has become the very life-breath of the knowables. Such is that full body of Bhairava.

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This surging-forth of the knowable, abiding as one within will and within lordship, in its gross aspect becomes the set of five elements beginning with earth;

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and in its subtle aspect, the set of five subtle-elements [tanmātras] beginning with smell; and then, in its instrumental aspect, through contact, the twice-five [ten] sense-organs.

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By the veiling of knowable-ness, in the sequence whereby knower-ness shines forth, [it becomes] the state of mind, ego, and intellect of these [organs]; in their undivided condition, primordial-nature [prakṛti]; and the state of person [puruṣa] — these [last two] being that in reference to which there are contraction and expansion.

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They came to be from the conjunction of the desired [object], which is twofold in form and shares in both [knower and known] — from the opening-forth whose essence is will, [and again] otherwise from what is joined with the Anuttara.

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The four powers that reside within this person, sustaining within him both the sky of consciousness and the ground of inert matter, are made of māyā, [poised] like Triśaṅku [between the two].

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From the power of will, which is threefold, three other powers arose; and then this emission [visarga] became exceedingly distinct through the expansion of what is to be created.

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Having created this from the mutual commingling of the powers of the Self, an inner agitation [kṣobha] arises; nothing comes to be outside, apart from this emission.

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All this manifold, while it exists, again and again comes to rest in Anuttara-Bhairava through the gateways of will and the rest — and from there alone it is emitted forth once more.