THREE QUOTES OF ABHINAVAGUPTA

                                               

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To this photograph ,i am adding 3 quotes from Abhinavagupta of Kashmir.....

" Nothing perceived is independent of perception and perception differs not from the perceiver, therefore the universe is nothing but the perceiver."

"Relative distinction between two realities is not impossible. This is the doctrine of Supreme Unity in which in which relative distinction is neither shunned nor accepted. While there is an external difference between phenomena, there is none inwardly."

"Other achievements are in vain if one has missed the supreme reality, the Self. But once one has attained this reality there is nothing left that one could desire."

Abhinavagupta ((950 – 1020 AD) was India's greatest Shaivite scholar, philosopher ,musician, poet, dramatist, theologian, and logician who exercised strong influences on Indian culture. Abhinavagupta was born in Kashmir . He was a genius of his time who wrote over 35 scholarly books , the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, a treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula known today as Kashmir Shaivism. Another great contribution from him was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni .

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