Stanzas also maintained a sect-neutral—but clearly nondualistic—philosophical stance. The central concept of this work of great beauty and spiritual power is that God is nothing but the vibrant pulsation of Consciousness, moving through successive phases of expansion and contraction. The Stanzas received no fewer than seven commentaries, one by the author himself and two others of note by Kṣemarāja and Rājānaka Rāma, a disciple of Utpala Deva (of whom more will be said). THE PRATYABHIJÑĀ LINEAGE
