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In the thirty-sixth verse of his Cidvilāsastava (‘Hymn to the Play of Consciousness’), Amṛtānanda contemplates the deeper meaning of ṣaḍdarśana pūjana (worship of the six traditions) as follows:
पञ्चबोधकरणानि मानसं दर्शनानि विषयप्रदर्शनात् ।
दर्शनानि षडमूनि तानि तत्पूजनं भवति तल्लयश्चिति ॥ ३६ ॥
pañcabodhakaraṇāni mānasaṃ darśanāni viṣayapradarśanāt |
darśanāni ṣaḍ amūni tāni tatpūjanaṃ bhavati tallayaś citi || 36 ||
“The worship of the six traditions is when the mental perceptions of the five-fold senses arising from the perception of objects is dissolved into pure awareness.” (translation by Ben Williams)
