Kamakalavilasa 65

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He explains this very determination of the triad of metaphysical drops [in the phrase] 'The metaphysical drop is of the nature of I-consciousness.' 'The metaphysical drop,' whose intrinsic nature is white and red; 'of the nature of I-consciousness,' containing within itself the totality of all phonemes, whose self—namely, its identical nature—is I-consciousness in the form of the unexcelled expansion. By the grammatical rule 'from a phoneme comes -kāra,' the suffix -kāra is added after the word 'aham', just as in the case of aikāra. Therefore, 'possessing the form of the homogenous harmony of this couple'—of these two which are expressed by the letters 'a' and 'ha', luminous consciousness and reflective awareness, there is a couple, a dyad; of that couple having the form of the divine married couple, the homogenous harmony is their mutual harmony consisting in mutual interpenetration; that itself is the form—the intrinsic nature—of which [metaphysical drop],