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SS 3.30–3.32: Die Welt als eigene Śakti
SS 3.30–3.32: Die Welt als eigene Śakti

Śiva Sūtra 3.30–3.32: Creation, Maintenance, and Dissolution

The world appears as the unfolding of one's own śakti. Even in creation, maintenance, and dissolution, the state of the knower remains undiminished.

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Śiva Sūtra 3.30–3.32: Creation, Maintenance, and Dissolution

The world appears as the unfolding of one's own śakti. Even in creation, maintenance, and dissolution, the state of the knower remains undiminished.

Śiva Sūtra 3.30
स्वशक्तिप्रचयो विश्वम् ||3.30||
sva-śakti-pracayo viśvam ||3.30|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
sva
karmadhāraya-compound
sva
pronoun
 own, self
śakti
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
śakti
substantive feminine
 Śakti, power
pracayaḥ
nominative singular
pracaya
substantive masculine
 accumulation, unfolding, fullness
viśvam
nominative singular
viśva
substantive neuter
 world, universe
The universe (viśvam | nom sg) [is] the unfolding of one's own Śakti (sva-śakti-pracayaḥ | nom sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
The whole world appears as the unfolding of your own Śakti.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: For the realised person, the world is not alien but a gathering of his own powers.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: As for Śiva, so for the supreme yogin the world is the unfolding of his own Śakti, never separate from the self.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika
Śiva Sūtra 3.31
स्थितिलयौ ||3.31||
sthiti-layau ||3.31|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
sthiti
dvandva-compound
sthiti
substantive feminine
 preservation, continuance
layau
nominative dual
laya
substantive masculine
 dissolution
[There are] preservation and dissolution (sthiti-layau | nom du).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
Within it, preservation and dissolution become manifest.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: The powers by which experience persists or passes away are recognised as movements of one's own awareness.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: Sthiti is the mode in which the unfolded world appears for a time as 'this'.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika
Śiva Sūtra 3.32
तत्प्रवृत्तावप्यनिरासः संवेत्तृभावात् ||3.32||
tat-pravṛttāv apy anirāsaḥ saṃvettṛ-bhāvāt ||3.32|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
tat
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
tad
pronoun dem
 of this, of these
pravṛttau
lokative absolutus singular
pravṛtti
substantive feminine
 even when it arises or acts
api
api
particle
 also
anirāsaḥ
nominative singular
an
previx
nirāsa
substantive masculine
 non-cancellation, non-loss
saṃvettṛ
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
saṃvettṛ
substantive masculine
 knower, perceiver
bhāvāt
ablative singular
bhāva
substantive masculine
 because of the state, because of the nature
Even when these [powers] arise (tat-pravṛttau api | loc absl sg), [there is] no loss (anirāsaḥ | nom sg), because the state of the knower remains (saṃvettṛ-bhāvāt | abl sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
Even in creative action, freedom is not lost as long as you remain grounded in the knower.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: Even while creation, preservation, and dissolution arise ceaselessly, the knower does not lose his ground.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: For the yogin, only the external operative aspect can disappear: the goal-directed effort to bring something forth.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika

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