Tripura Rahasya

Lord Dattatreya

She who is the Transcendental Consciousness creating all and comprising their essence, is Pure Radiance and therefore devoid of anything insentient. She reposes in Her own Self undefiled by the ego. The insentient cannot exist of themselves but depend on Intelligence for their recognition and definition. They cannot shine by their own merit and reveal their own existence. They have, therefore, no repose. But pure Intelligence is absolute, shines by itself and feels its own existence, without any extraneous aids. Since it is self-radiant, it is self-reposed. Such is the perfect I - the transcendental I - which is not present in insentient creation. 

Because the aggregate of all phenomena is of Pure Intelligence - the Supreme - and there is nothing beyond Her orbit, there cannot possibly by anything to divider Her into sectors, and so She is unbroken and continuous like a mirror reflecting images. How are divisor and division possible for the Absolute? Such freedom from disintegration is Perfection; and the Self-radiance of such Perfectness is the unbroken 'I-I' consciousness, known as Self repose; the eternal, immanent, unique and homogenous essence. Though descriptions of and statements about the Supreme differ according to the aspects emphasised, yet She is simply self-sufficiency, energy, and abstract, unbroken, the single essential Being - all unified into One, just as light and heat go to make fire; yet these three factors are discusses and described separately in practical life.