तच्छक्तिमाद्यामेकान्तां विद्रूपाख्यां वदन्ति हि
They indeed call that primal, unique power by the name Vidrūpā.
अशेषतत्त्वजातस्य कारणं विभुरव्ययम्
She is the all-pervading, imperishable cause of the entire multitude of principles.
कृत्यं कुर्वन्ति तेनेदं सर्वानुग्राहकं मुने
By her, all actions are performed, O sage, and she is the universal bestower of grace.
आद्योन्मेषो ऽस्य नादात्मा शान्त्यादिभुवनात्मकः
The first emergence of this is sound, whose essence is the worlds of peace and the like.
ततो ज्ञानक्रियाशक्त्योस्तथोत्कर्षापकर्षयोः
Then, of the powers of knowledge and action, there are gradations of superiority and inferiority.
दृक्शक्तिर्यत्र न्यग्भूता क्रियाशक्तिर्विशिष्यते
Where the power of knowledge is subdued, the power of action prevails.
यत्र क्रिया हि न्यग्भूता ज्ञानाख्योद्रेकमश्नुते
Where the power of action is subdued, the surge called knowledge is attained.
नादो बिन्दुश्च सकलः सदाख्यं तत्त्वमाश्रितौ
Sound and bindu, together with the manifest, are established in the principle called Sadākhya.
इमानि चैव तत्त्वानि शुद्धाध्वेति प्रकीर्तितम्
These very principles are indeed proclaimed as the pure path.
पञ्चानां कालराहित्याक्रमो नास्तीति निश्चितम्
For these five, there is certainly no sequence of time.
तत्त्वं वस्तुत एकं तु शिवाख्यं चित्रशक्तिकम्
In reality, the principle is one alone, called Śiva, endowed with manifold powers.
चिज्जडानुग्रहार्थाय कृत्वा रूपाणि वै प्रभुः
For the purpose of granting grace to consciousness and matter, the Lord indeed assumes forms.
मुक्तिं च विश्वेषां स्वव्यापारे समर्थेताम्
And he is able, by his own activity, to grant liberation to all beings.
शिवसामान्यरूपो हि मोक्षस्तु चिदनुग्रहः
Liberation is indeed the universal form of Śiva, which is the bestowal of consciousness.
तेनानुग्राहकः शम्भुस्तद्भुक्त्यै प्रभुर्व्ययः
Therefore, Śambhu is the bestower of grace; the Lord is imperishable for the enjoyment of that.
कर्त्तोपादानकरणैर्विना कार्ये न दृश्यते
Without agent, material, and instruments, an effect is never seen.
नित्यैका च शिवा शक्त्या ह्यनादिनिधना सती
Śiva's power is indeed eternal and one, being without beginning or end.
स्वभावान्मोहजननी स्वचिताजनकर्मभिः
By her own nature, she is the mother of delusion, through the actions of her own will.
कर्माण्यावेक्ष्य विद्येशो मायां विक्षोभ्य शक्तिभिः
The Lord of knowledge, having considered the actions, agitates Māyā through his powers.
सृजत्यादो कालतत्त्वं नानाशक्तिमयी च सा
At first, he creates the principle of time, which itself is composed of various powers.
सूते ह्यनन्तरं माया शक्तिं नियमनात्मिकाम्
Immediately, Māyā gives birth to the power whose nature is regulation.
अनन्तरं च सा माया नित्या विश्वविमोहिनी
Next, that eternal Māyā, the great deluder of the universe, arises.
एकतस्तु नृणां येन कलयित्वा मलं ततः
From her alone, after producing impurity in people,
कालेन च नियत्योपसर्गतां समुपेतया
and by means of time, she attains the state of constraint through necessity.
प्रदर्शनाथ वै पुंसो विषयाणां च सा पुनः
For the sake of demonstration, she again presents to the person the objects of the senses.
विद्या त्वावरणं भित्वा ज्ञानशक्तेः स्वकर्मणा
But knowledge, breaking through the covering by its own action of the power of wisdom,
करोति भोग्यं यानासौ करणेन परेण वै
makes that which is to be enjoyed accessible, indeed, by means of the supreme instrument.
भोग्ये भोगं च भोक्तारं तत्परं करणं तु सा
In the object of enjoyment, the enjoyment and the enjoyer—that supreme instrument is she.
सुखादिरूपो विषयाकारा बुद्धिः समासतः
In brief, intellect takes the form of pleasure and so on, and assumes the shape of the objects.
यद्यर्कवत्प्रकाशा धीः कर्मत्वाञ्च तथापि हि
Even if intellect is luminous like the sun, still it is of the nature of action.