Śivasaṃhitā 5.191
Pañcamaḥ paṭalaḥ — Dhyāna
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The jagad-vismaraṇa (forgetting the world) is not a pathological dissociation but the natural effect of consciousness finding something more real than the ordinary world. The world is not forgotten through rejection but through absorption: when inner depth reveals itself, the surface loses its distracting power. The three bījas (aim, klīm, strīm) map the body’s centers of the supreme vidyā.
Jagad = world, universe, vismaraṇa = forgetting (vi = away, smaraṇa = remembrance), klīm is the kāma-bīja or love-desire bīja associated with Kṛṣṇa and also Kāmākhyā, strīm or hrīm is Śakti’s māyā-bīja associated with her power of veiling and revealing.
The three bījas (aim-klīm-strīm) of the mūlādhāra, heart and Ajñā form the basis of the Tripurā Sundarī vidyā, the great mantra of the goddess of three worlds. In the śrīvidyā tradition, this mantric triad is at the heart of all South Indian esoteric practice, whose culmination is the Śrī Yantra and worship of the parādevī (supreme goddess) as consciousness itself.