यस्य नोत्क्रामति मतिस् स्वात्मतत्त्वावलोकनात् । यथार्थदर्शिनो ज्ञस्य जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one whose mind does not depart from the contemplation of the truth of their own self, whose vision is as it truly is, life shines forth.
यस्य नाहङ्कृतो भावो बुद्धिर् यस्य न लिप्यते । यस् समस् सर्वभावेषु जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one whose sense of 'I' is absent, whose intellect is unstained, who is equal in all conditions, life shines forth.
यो ऽन्तश्शीतलया बुद्ध्या रागद्वेषविमुक्तया । साक्षिवत् पश्यतीदं हि जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one who, with a mind cooled within and freed from attachment and aversion, perceives all as a witness, life shines forth.
येन सम्यक् परिज्ञाय हेयोपादेयम् उज्झता । चित्तस्यान्ते ऽर्पितं चित्तं जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one who, having fully discerned what is to be accepted and rejected, has renounced them, and has placed the mind at the end of the mind, life shines forth.
अवस्तुसदृशे वस्तुन्य् अस्तसङ्कल्पनामले । येनालीनं कृतं चेतो जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one whose mind has been merged in the pure reality, resembling the absence of objects and free from all conceptualization, life shines forth.
सत्यां दृष्टिम् अवष्टभ्य लीलयेयं जगत्क्रिया । क्रियते ऽवासनं येन जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one who, holding to the vision of truth, effortlessly performs the actions of the world without any latent impressions, life shines forth.
नान्तस् तुष्यति नोद्वेगम् एति यो विहरन्न् अपि । हेयोपादेयसम्प्राप्तौ जीवितं तस्य शोभते
For one who, even while acting, neither rejoices nor is disturbed within, and remains unaffected by what is to be accepted or rejected, life shines forth.
शुद्धपक्षश् च शुद्धश् च हंसौघस् सरसो यथा । यस्माद् गुणौघो निर्याति जीवितं तस्य शोभते
Just as a flock of pure swans in a lake is pure, so too is the one from whom a multitude of virtues arises—his life shines forth.
यस्मिञ् श्रुतिपथं याते दृष्टे स्मृतिम् उपागते । आनन्दं यान्ति भूतानि जीवितं तस्य शोभते
In whom, when the path of hearing is attained and direct perception and memory arise, all beings find joy—his life shines forth.
यस्योदयेन हृदयेषु जनाम्बुजानि जीवालिमन्ति सकलानि विकासवन्ति । तस्यावभाति चिरजीवितम् अक्षयेन्दोर् आपूर्णतेव दनुजेश्वर नेतरस्य
By whose rising, the lotuses of people's hearts, filled with the essence of life, all blossom—his long life shines, like the ever-full moon, not like that of the lord of demons.
स्थैर्यं देहस्य दृष्टस्य जीवितं प्रोच्यते बुधैः । देहान्तरार्थं देहस्य सन्त्यागो मरणं स्मृतम्
The stability of the seen body is called life by the wise; the abandonment of the body for another purpose is known as death.
द्वाभ्याम् एवासि पक्षाभ्याम् आभ्यां मुक्तो महामते । किं ते मरणम् अस्तीह किं वा जीवितम् अस्ति ते
With these two wings alone, O wise one, you are liberated; what is death to you here, or what is life to you?
निदर्शनार्थम् एतत् तु मयोक्तम् अरिमर्दन । न त्वं जीवसि सर्वज्ञ म्रियसे न कदाचन
This has been said only for illustration, O destroyer of foes; you, O all-knowing one, neither live nor ever die.
देहसंस्थो ऽप्य् अदेहत्वाद् अदेहो ऽसि विदेहदृक् । व्योमसंस्थो ऽप्य् असक्तत्वाद् अव्योमैव हि मारुतः
Though established in the body, you are bodiless due to your bodiless vision; though abiding in space, you are truly spaceless, like the wind, because you are unattached.
स्पर्शसम्बोधकारित्वाद् देह एवासि सुव्रत । उत्सेधारोधकत्वेन खम् उत्सेधस्य कारणम्
Because you cause the awareness of touch, you are indeed the body, O noble one; just as space is the cause of elevation by its capacity to support.
प्रबुद्धो ज्ञातवस्तुत्वाद् एव त्वम् असि नासि च । इयत्तैकपरिच्छिन्नं रूपम् अज्ञेषु दुःखितम्
Awakened, knowing the reality of things, you are, and yet you are not; the limited, defined form exists only among the ignorant and is afflicted.
सर्वदा सर्वम् एवासि चित्प्रकाशपरैकधीः । को देहः को ऽप्य् अदेहस् ते यं गृह्णासि जहासि वा
At all times, you are everything, your mind established solely in the radiance of consciousness; what is the body, or what is bodilessness, that you would take up or abandon?
समुदेतु वसन्तो वा वातु वा प्रलयानिलः । भावाभावविहीनस्य किम् अभ्यागतम् आत्मनः
Let spring arise, or let the wind of dissolution blow—what comes to one whose self is free from coming and going?
प्रलुठत्स्व् अपि शैलेषु कल्पाग्निषु दहत्स्व् अपि । वहत्सूत्पातवातेष्व् अप्य् आत्मात्मन्य् एव तिष्ठति
Even if mountains are shattered, or the fires of aeons burn, or the winds of destruction carry all away, the Self remains established in itself.
सर्वभूतानि तिष्ठन्तु समम् एव प्रयान्तु वा । नश्यन्तु वाथ वर्धन्ताम् आत्मात्मन्य् एव तिष्ठति
Let all beings remain, or let them all depart equally; let them perish or let them grow—still, the Self remains established in itself.
क्षीयते न क्षयं प्राप्ते वर्धमाने न वर्धते । न स्पन्दते स्पन्दमाने देहे ऽस्मिन् पुरुषः परः
When decay comes, it does not decay; when growth occurs, it does not grow; the supreme person does not stir, even as the body moves.
देहस्याहम् अहं देह इति क्षीणे ऽपि ते भ्रमे । त्यजामि न त्यजामीति किं मृषा कलनोदिता
The thought, 'I am the body, the body is mine,' persists even when this delusion is weakened; 'I abandon, I do not abandon'—what is this, but a false notion arising from imagination?
इदं कृत्वा करोमीदम् इदं त्यक्त्वेदम् आहरे । इति तत्त्वविदां तात सङ्कल्पास् सङ्क्षयं गताः
Having done this, 'I will do that'; having abandoned this, 'I will take that'—such intentions, O dear one, have come to an end for those who know the truth.
प्रबुद्धास् सर्वकर्तारः किं करिष्यन्ति वै नवम् । नवस्याकरणान् नित्यम् अकर्तृत्वपदं गताः
Those who are awakened, who are the doers of all, what will they do anew? Having always abandoned new action, they have attained the state of non-doership.
अकर्तृत्वाद् अभोक्तृत्वम् अर्थाद् एव समागतम् । सङ्गृहीतं किलानुप्तं केनेह भुवनत्रये
From non-doership, non-enjoyership naturally arises; indeed, who here in the three worlds has ever truly taken up or abandoned anything that was not already gathered?
शान्ते कर्तृत्वभोक्तृत्वे शान्तिर् एव हि शिष्यते । प्रौढिम् अभ्यागता सैव मुक्तिर् इत्य् उच्यते बुधैः
When doership and enjoyership are pacified, only peace remains; when this maturity is attained, it is called liberation by the wise.
प्रबुद्धाश् चिन्मयाश् शुद्धास् सर्वम् आक्रम्य संस्थिताः । किं त्यक्तं परिगृह्णन्तु किं गृहीतं त्यजन्तु वा
Those who are awakened, composed of consciousness, pure, abiding pervading all—what is there for them to abandon or to accept, or to accept and then abandon?
ग्राह्यग्राहकसम्बन्धः प्रमितावयविक्रमः । हीनः प्रमेयावयवैः किं गृह्णातु जहातु किम्
When the relation of the grasped and the grasper, and the movement of measured parts, is lacking in the objects to be known, what is there to take up or to cast away?
ग्राह्यग्राहकसम्बन्धे क्षीणे शान्तिर् उदेत्य् अलम् । स्थितिम् अभ्यागता सान्तर् मोक्षनाम्नाभिधीयते
When the relation of the grasped and the grasper is dissolved, complete peace arises; having attained this abiding, it is called by the name 'liberation.'
तत्र स्थितास् सदा सन्तस् त्वादृशाः पुरुषोत्तमाः । सुषुप्तावयवस्पन्दसाधर्म्येण चरन्ति हि
Those noble ones, supreme among men like you, always abide there; they move about in similarity to the stillness of deep sleep.