The Shaiva thinkers of Kashmir have so conceived the Absolute as to be a synthesis of Being and Becoming simultaneously, which is to say that Paramasiva as Absolute is characterized by such two movements as would delineate the idea of it being a massive ocean of creativity. In order to establish that the Absolute is the embodiment of Being and Becoming, the Trika Shaivas made use of such metaphysical ideas as would establish it to be, on the one hand, of the nature of luminous consciousness, and, on the other hand, self-cognitive awareness.