(Continued...)
The word ‘spanda’ is exploited in Kashmir Shaivism
to establish two things. One is that the universe is not outside of Brahman and
two, Shakti itself is not an external action on
Brahman. Shakti is abhinnam -
non-separate - from ShivaM.
Among the various shaiva darshanas, what comes
nearest to our AcharyaÃs advaita is this
spanda-shAstra. On mokshha both say the same thing. But instead
of saying that the universe is mithyA,
created by MAyA, this school includes not only
MAyA as well as the Ishvara of
advaita vedanta in their Shakti.
According to them there are 36 fundamentals.
Of these ShivaM is the first and Shakti is the next. But immediately
they say that the ShivaM which is ‘sat’
(Existence) has always the ‘cit-shakti’ within it. Therefore ShivaM is sat-cit.
The Ananda appears when the play of reflection, producing the universe, starts
as a sport.
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