Sublime

if the mind ceases perception of the world will depart, and since our rising as mind is what prevents us being aware of ourself as we actually are (our real nature or svarūpa),

what appears to us to be samsara is really nirvana, and that what appears to be the world of form (rupa) is really the void (sunya). Hence the famous saying: Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form. Form is precisely emptiness; emptiness is precisely form.6

What is not permanent is not worth striving for.

conditioned patterns (saṁsāra) exist in the mind and body as vāsanās (memories, subtle impressions of the past, conditioning). “In fact,” he says, “the subtle impressions from the past and the mind itself are synonymous.” Most mind states are made of habits, and those very habits add up to what we call “a life,” though such an existence is superfic

If prakāśa is pure consciousness, vimarśa is the consciousness of Consciousness—Reality knowing itself. It is by this process of Reality (as Śiva) contemplating on itself (as Śakti) that creation is manifested. This power of self-reflection or vimarśa is the inherent creative potential of prakāśa.

This birth has occurred through many causes and conditions that may not be present in the future. Such a recognition creates a strong motivation for us not to fritter our time away and waste the opportunities that we have but to devote ourselves to practice (4.4).

The end of accumulation is dispersion. The end of building is ruin. The end of meeting is parting. The end of birth is death.