The Sanskrit term Śaktisamāveśa can be transliterated into English as Saktisamavesa or Shaktisamavesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions

Śaktisamāveśa (शक्तिसमावेश) refers to “penetration into Śakti” [?], consisting of four stages, according to the Tantrāloka chapter 10.—Abhinava goes on to subdivide this śakti-samāveśa into four stages, corresponding to the four epistemological categories of knower, knowing, known and the autonomous pure awareness (para-pramātṛ) which is the source and ground of the previous three. The four stages are as follows. When immersion into this parā saṃvit is only proximate, object-consciousness is dominant (Tantrāloka 10.270d–271a). When there is contact44 with this immersion, the process or faculties of knowing are dominant. In full identification with this immersion, the state of the knower becomes clear. Beyond this, in the state of the so-called pure awareness in which all three previous categories have perfectly fused, in which there is perception but no sense of a separate perceiver or perceived, the Light of Consciousness is self-manifest and we cannot speak of an immersion, except metaphorically (Tantrāloka 10.269).

This helps us understand that the movement into the transcendent Fourth state can indeed happen in stages, the first three of which (prameya, pramāṇa, pramātṛ) are an expression of divine grace. We can infer that speaking of grace is meaningless in the fourth stage, where there is no duality (though the Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī and Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī accounts tell us that there are still saṃskāras of duality at this stage).

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Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.

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Partial matches: Shakti, Samavesha.

Full-text: Rudrashakti.

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