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Emission / Creation (Sṛṣṭi)

The pouring-forth — when a world, or just a thought, flows out of consciousness into appearance.

Sṛṣṭi is the act of bringing forth — the moment a world, or even a single experience, flows out of consciousness into appearance. In the Trika picture this is not a craftsman shaping inert matter from outside but awareness spontaneously expressing itself, the way a feeling rises or an image springs to mind. On the personal scale, every fresh perception or thought is a small sṛṣṭi, a flowing-forth of experience from the perceiver's own depths.

Key passages(20)

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

Very high

Chāndogya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Aitareya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

High

Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Chāndogya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

High

Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

High

Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

High

Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Stotraratna · Yāmunācārya (Ālavandār)

High

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

High

Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

Moderate

Praśna Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

Moderate

Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

Moderate

Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

Moderate

Praśna Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

Moderate