Tantrasara - 1.

'' Just as the Almighty God, conducting His playful activity of self-oblivion, becomes, or rather appears, as a boarded being, an individual soul an existence as minute as an atom, (simply through that play), and even then does not come into conflict with the diversity based on the concepts of time, space, individual form etc; in the same way a bonded finite being, becoming free from all the hiding covers of his self and, attaining the recognition or correct realization of his real character, either at once or by stages and steps, is being said to be a target of bestowal of the Grace of God. ''

• Tantrasara of Abhinavagupta, Chapter 11.