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Abhinavagupta Quotes on Mind

Abhinavagupta was a Kashmiri philosopher, mystic, and aesthetician and the principal systematizer of the non-dual Trika tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. This page collects quotes attributed to Abhinavagupta on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Abhinavagupta:

    “Consciousness alone is real; the world is its play.”

  • Attributed to Abhinavagupta:

    “Recognition of the Self is liberation.”

  • Attributed to Abhinavagupta:

    “Bliss is the inmost nature of consciousness.”

  • Attributed to Abhinavagupta:

    “Aesthetic experience reveals the structure of consciousness itself.”

  • Attributed to Abhinavagupta:

    “What is bound is bound only by ignorance of itself.”