Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.10

8.10

kathaṃcid iti/ parameśvarābhinnagurucaraṇāravindayugalasamārādhanena parameśvaraghaṭitenaivety arthaḥ/ āsādyeti/ ā samantāt paripūrṇatayā sādayitvā svātmopabhogyatāṃ nirargalāṃ gamayitvā/ tad anena viditavedyatvena parārthaśāstrakaraṇe ’dhikāro darśitaḥ/ anyathā pratāraṇam eva prasajyeta/ māyottīrṇā api mahāmāyādhikṛtā viṣṇuviriñcyādyā yadīyaiśvaryaleśeneśvarībhūtāḥ sa bhagavān anavacchinnaprakāśānandasvātantryaparamārtho maheśvaraḥ/tasya dāsyam/ dīyate ’smai svāminā sarvaṃ yathābhilaṣitam iti dāsaḥ/ parameśvarasvarūpasvātantryapātram ity arthaḥ/ janaśabdenādhikāriviṣayaniyamābhāvaḥ prādarśi/ yasya yasya hīdaṃ svarūpakathanaṃ tasya tasya mahāphalaṃ bhavati/ prajñānasyaiva paramārthaphalatvāt/ tathopadiṣṭaṃ śivadṛṣṭau paramagurubhir bhagavatsomānandanāthapādaiḥ —

"Somehow or other," by a propitiation, effected by God, of the lotus feet of a spiritual director identical with God, "having reached," having fully attained, this condition, having made it the unintercepted object of fruition to myself. Thus knowing that which has to be known, he is qualified to construct a system for others: otherwise the system would be a mere imposture.

Maheśvara is the reality of unintermitted self-luminousness, beatitude, and independence, by portions of whose divine essence Viṣṇu, Viriñci, and other deities are deities, who, though they transcend the fictitious world, are yet implicated in the infinite illusion.

The condition of being a slave to Maheśvara is the being a recipient of that independence or absoluteness which is the essence of the divine nature, a slave being one to whom his lord grants all things according to his will and pleasure (i.e., dāsya, from dā).

The word mankind imports that there is no restriction of the doctrine to previously qualified students. Whoever he may be to whom this exposition of the divine nature is made, he reaps its highest reward, the emanatory principium itself operating to the highest end of the transmigrating souls. It has been accordingly laid down in the Śiva-dṛṣṭi by that supreme guide the revered Somānandanātha—