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Shaiva philosophy
Source: archive.org: Chittanubodha Shastram By Bhaskara KanthaPūrṇāhantā (पूर्णाहन्ता) refers to the “fullness of I-consciousness”, according to the Pratyabhijñā (lit. “divine recognition”) philosophical branch of Kashmir Śaivism.— According to the Pratyabhijñā doctrine the only way to liberation is the recognition of our own divine nature. There is no question of becoming something which we were not already, but of removing the veil and the dirt covering the luminous nature of Śiva in us. The aim is nothing but jīvanmukti (liberation in this life itself), which means living in the uninterrupted consciousness of Śiva as our very own nature. This is the realization of our true ‘I’, the fullness of I-consciousness (pūrṇāhantā). In such a state the jīvanmukta lives in the awareness that everything is his own self. This corresponds to a state of universal love. For the supreme state of bliss is not a subjective enjoyment, but universal bliss.
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