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with the Spandas'ästra. This branch derived the existence of any material cause and, any prompting cause like the Karma for the creation of the world. They did not believe in the Pariņāmavāda nor in the Vivartavāda, according to which, the world is created by God out of Himself or by Máyā, respectively. The Kās'mira S'aivism looks upon Māyā as the Lord's power, which is peculiar (s'aktivis'esah
fanfarkta:), and it accomplishes something that is impossible of accomplishment for any other agency. Māyā is the Tirodhānas'akti (fattatarti ), the wonderworking power. According to this school, the Lord S'iva is entangled in the five sheaths created by the Māyā and He then becomes the jiva.' According to this school, God is independent and creates merely by the force of His will all that comes into existence. He makes the world appear in Himself, as it were distinct from Himself, though not so really, as the things appear in a mirror, but He is not affected by them. God possesses such a wonder-work. ing power and He Himself appears in numerous forms. The individual soul also is identical with the Lord S'iva, the Supreme Self. But it does not perceive this identity with S'iva due to impurity (mala) which is of three kinds. The soul forgets its free and universal nature through ignorance and believes itself to be imperfect; it falsely identifies with things which are not itself, like body, and is afflicted by the pains accruing from them. The impurities are of three kinds - Āpava -- caused by the
1 Sakhare M. R. : History and Philosophy of Lingāyat Religion, p. 444.
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