tattva

The thirty-six tattvas: how the one becomes the many A non-dual system still owes an account of the world.

…sharpened the dualism by pushing the five highest reality-levels, the tattvas from Nāda down to Śuddhavidyā, into the category of pāśa , of bond, a move earlier teachers had not made.

In brief: reality is one consciousness, Shiva, and the universe is that consciousness freely manifesting itself through thirty-six tattvas , levels of reality, descending from pure awareness to inert matter.

On top of that sits a layer of sub-commentary, above all Vachaspati Mishra's ninth-century gloss, the Tattva-Vaisaradi .

…0 quotes scripture on what qualifies him: one who truly knows all the tattvas , the levels of reality, "is declared a guru equal to me, the revealer of the potency of mantra." The same literature is unsparing a…

…once, tan- , to extend, and trai- , to protect: tanoti vipulan arthan tattva-mantra-samanvitan, tranam ca kurute yasmat tantram iti abhidhiyate .

Remove the first link, false knowledge, with tattva-jnana , true knowledge of reality, and each later link falls away in turn until what remains is apavarga , release.

… polymath who commented on nearly every school of his day — wrote the Tattva-kaumudi , the "Moonlight on the Principles," which became the standard lens through which later India read the Karika .