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In the ninth verse of his Cidvilāsastava (‘Hymn to the Play of Consciousness’), Amṛtānanda explains the meaning of ‘dispelling the obstacles’ according to his tradition as follows:
विश्वभेदविभवा विकल्पधीलक्षणा भवति विघ्नसन्ततिः ।
निर्विकल्पनिजधामविश्रमस्तन्निराकरणमत्र कीर्तितम् ॥ ९ ॥
viśvabhedavibhavā vikalpadhīlakṣaṇā bhavati vighnasantatiḥ |
nirvikalpanijadhāmaviśramas tannirākaraṇam atra kīrtitam || 9 ||
“The multitude of obstacles, whose powers [generate] the duality of the universe, have conceptual cognition as their defining feature. The rite of dispelling those [obstacles] is understood in this [view] as reposing in the innate luminosity of non-conceptual awareness.” (translation by Ben Williams)
