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The Essence of the Tantra8.5

8.5

तत्र पारमार्थिक एतावान् कार्यकारणभावो यद् उत कर्तृस्वभावस्य स्वतन्त्रस्य भगवत एवंविधेन शिवादिधरान्तेन वपुषा स्वरूपभिन्नेन स्वरूपविश्रान्तेन च प्रथनम्

Transliteration (IAST)

tatra pāramārthika etāvān kāryakāraṇabhāvo yad uta kartṛsvabhāvasya svatantrasya bhagavata evaṃvidhena śivādidharāntena vapuṣā svarūpabhinnena svarūpaviśrāntena ca prathanam

— of (the Lord) whose very nature is to be the agent ; — of the autonomous (one) ; — of the Blessed Lord ; — by a form ranging from Śiva down to earth ; — with a body/form ; — distinct from his own essential nature ; — yet resting in his own essential nature ; — the unfolding, the displaying

Of these, the ultimately real causal relation amounts to just this: that the Blessed Lord, whose very nature is to be the autonomous agent, unfolds himself in a form of this kind — ranging from Śiva down to earth — a form that is both distinct from his own essential nature and yet resting within it.