The name of Abhinavagupta is always remembered as one of the most outstanding philosophers of the famous philosophies in India, the Shaiva philosophy. Abhinavagupta is quite an ancient philosopher in India, who lived in the state of Kashmir during the end of the tenth and the beginning of eleventh centuries and he was a learned person with knowledge in both the Shaiva philosophy and Sanskrit literature.

Abhinavagupta took the way of direct communication for spreading his knowledge about the Shaiva philosophy and he took help of a number of teachers and saints of his contemporary time. This brought him the nickname, `Shankaracharya of Kashmir`. Abhinavagupta also became successful in possessing all the eight yogic powers that are explained in the Hindu Shastras and apart from that, he also had a vast knowledge about the `Six Signs` that make someone in the category of god. This was the main reason why some of his descendants and the other people did consider him as the `Shiva incarnate`.

Abhinavagupta gave a new and his own definition of karma and said that karma actually deals with space and time and according to him, actually there is no space. He became successful to make one thing clear that the realization of God is in fact, just the state of God`s consciousness or just the recall of previous experience. Abhinavagupta has also written some wonderful books to spread his philosophy and those books have also become well famous among the masses. Some of his most popular and famous works include the likes of `Bhairavastotra`, `Malinivijaya`, `Vastika` and also the `Kramastotra`.