Argument
IPVV — V2-H ARGUMENT MAP (the pañcamo vimarśa: the reflexive-awareness as the manifestation's nature, and the parā-vāk, kārikās 11–13)
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Question. This is the deepest section of the jñānaśakti vimarśa. Abhinavagupta now states the heart of the whole doctrine: the manifestation (prakāśa) is not an inert light — its own nature is the *reflexive-awareness* (vimarśa). Without the vimarśa, the manifestation would be like crystal, inert, unaware of what it shows. This reflexive-awareness is the parā-vāk (the supreme speech), the Lord's freedom and lordship. The vimarśa is not a separate thing (the pramātṛ-prameya are not two); it is the self-grasping of the light.
Issue. **The question:** This is the deepest section of the jñānaśakti vimarśa. Abhinavagupta now states the
heart of the whole doctrine: the manifestation (prakāśa) is not an inert light — its own nature is the
*reflexive-awareness* (vimarśa). Without the vimarśa, the manifestation would be like crystal, inert,
unaware of what it shows. This reflexive-awareness is the parā-vāk (the supreme speech), the Lord's
freedom and lordship. The vimarśa is not a separate thing (the pramātṛ-prameya are not two); it is the
self-grasping of the light.
Premises
The pramātṛ-prameya abheda and the parā-vāk
In the manas-cognition (the middle-self, the inner-speech), the first surge — the paśyantī-word-said,
of the will-marker — is where the pramātṛ-prameya are not yet separated even by their common form (no
distinction-flash). This very thing shines by itself. The reason: if the un-broken pramātṛ-prameya-form
(not yet split) were not really manifested, then in the quick reading (the lipi-recitation, the swift
motion, the quick speech) — going from line to line, place to place, organ to organ, not re-reflecting
the to-be-abandoned and to-be-grasped parts, and the agent of the abandonment/attainment not reflecting —
the varied abandonments/attainments would not be (they are seen as re-reflection-preceded; so they infer
their cause, the re-reflection). Nor is that re-reflection only by the diffe
Unresolved. 1. The Śivadṛṣṭi 1.8 citation (the icchā as the first tuṭi) — cited at length; the application
preserved.
2. The "kārya-hetu/svabhāva-hetu" (the effect-reason/own-nature-reason) — the two arguments for the
abheda; kept close.
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