The Tantric Secret Seed Syllables of the Seven Hundred Verses to Durga

That consciousness-power transformed into the form of mind (the sacrificer or patron), fire, water, earth, consciousness (the Sun), and bliss (the Moon).⁷ Besides these eight manifestations ashtamurti the eight forms of Shiva of the world-form, the world is nothing else. These eight manifestations of power are the direct eight manifestations of Shiva.⁸

The consciousness-power of the supreme Shiva transformed into the world-form, and the power present as the seed of creation transformed into the triple world trailokya the three worlds in gross and subtle forms. The entire creation is his 'form-based' expression.⁹

Then, for every form, there are different, infinite names. All this is just name. The Rigveda, Yajurveda, Sama and Atharva... the history-puranas, etc., all are names only.¹⁰

What is this 'name'?

Merely a modification of speech, a medium for the perception of any form. The real object is the 'form'.¹¹

But 'name' is absolutely essential for the knowledge of form. In reality, name and form are two aspects of the same thing. They are called different, but in essence, they are non-different.¹²

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7. "You are the mind, you are the sky, you are the wind, you are the charioteer of the wind; you are the waters, you are the earth; when you have transformed, nothing else exists. You alone, O Mother, to manifest yourself in the form of the world, contemplate yourself in the union of Shiva and Shakti, in the form of consciousness and bliss." Soundaryalahari-34.

8. "May the Lord, whose first creation is the sacrifice, who carries the oblation poured in the fire, who is the priest, who determines the two times (Sun and Moon), who stands pervading the world with the quality of sound, who is called the source of all seeds, by whom living beings are endowed with life, protect you with these eight visible forms." Kalidasa (Abhijnanasakuntalam).
"The Sun, water, earth, fire, air, the ether, the initiated brahmin, and the Moon are known as his eight forms." Vishnu Purana.

9. "Tripura, the supreme power, the primeval one, the great mistress, the mother of the creation of the three worlds in gross and subtle nature." Chatuhshati (quoted from the Gopalasundari commentary by Narasimha Swami on Soundaryalahari).

10. Chandogya 7/1/4.
11. "All modification is merely a play of speech, a name; clay is the only truth." Chandogya 6/1/4.
12. "As speech and meaning are inseparable, and as water and its wave are called different yet not different, so are they." Kalidasa / Tulsi.