Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya

The Goddess Continued..

Being non-dual and Abstract Intelligence, I spontaneously manifest even as the smallest detail in the universe, and as the universe. Though I manifest in diverse ways, I still remain unblemished because absoluteness is My being. This is My chief power, which is somewhat hard fully to understand. Therefore O Rishis! Consider this with the keenest of intellect. Though I am the abode of all and immanent in all, I remain pure.

Although I am not involved in any manner and am always free, I wield My power called Maya. I become covered with ignorance, appear full of desires, seek their fulfillment, grow restless, project favorable and unfavorable environments, am born and reborn as individuals, until growing wiser I seek a teacher and Sage, learn the truth from him, put it in practice and finally become absolved. All this goes on in My pure, uncontaminated, ever-free absolute intelligence. This manifestation of the ignorant and the free, and of others, is called My creation which is however, without any accessories- My power is too vast to be described. I shall tell you something of it in brief. It is that the cosmos is only the obverse of the mind which is projected from consciousness.