The starting point of the journey is the ending point...

[Excerpt from the Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (The Essence of the Highest Reality.]


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मोक्षस्य नैव किंचिद्
धामास्ति, न चापिगमनमन्यत्र ।
अज्ञानग्रन्थिभिदा
स्वशक्त्यभिव्यक्तता मोक्षः ॥६०॥

mokṣasya naiva kiṁcid
dhāmāsti, na cāpigamanamanyatra /
ajñānagranthibhidā
svaśaktyabhivyaktatā mokṣaḥ // 60 //

Actually, the liberation from repeated births and deaths, and being centered in Parabhairava’s state; and that Parabhairava’s state is called mokṣa, and that mokṣa is not somewhere in uppermost ākāśa, in śāntātīta kalā. Naiva kiṁcid dhāmāsti, it has not some particular place where one reaches and gets liberated from repeated births and deaths. Na cāpi-gamanamanyatra, for attaining mokṣa you have not to tread from the state where you are already existing in the field of māyā. You are existing in the field of māyā, and you have to get elevated by and by, by and by, by abhāysa [practice]; but you have not to tread, there is no journey to be covered. The starting point of the journey is the ending point of the journey.

(source: Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (The Essence of the Highest Reality),
Revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo
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