मनःकलनया ह्य् एते सुसम्बद्धाः परस्परम् । रूपालोकमनस्कारा दारूणि जतुना यथा
By the mind's own imagining, these—forms, perceptions, and mental impressions—are tightly bound together, just as pieces of wood are joined by resin.
स्वमनोमनने तन्तौ मनोऽभ्यासेन यत्नतः । विचाराच् छेदम् आयाते छिन्नैवाज्ञानभावना
When, through repeated practice and careful reflection, the thread of one's own thought is cut, then the notion born of ignorance is truly severed.
अज्ञानसङ्क्षयात् क्षीणे मनस्य् एते पुनर् मिथः । रूपालोकमनस्कारास् सङ्घटन्ते न केचन
When ignorance is destroyed and the mind is purified, these—forms, perceptions, and mental impressions—no longer come together at all.
सर्वेषां चित्तम् एवान्तर् इन्द्रियाणां प्रबोधकम् । तद् एव तस्माद् उच्छेद्यं पिशाच इव मन्दिरात्
The mind alone is the awakener within all the senses; therefore, it must be eradicated, like a demon from a temple.
चित्त वल्गसि मिथ्यैव दृष्टो ऽन्तो भवतो मया । आद्यन्तेषु सुतुच्छस् त्वं वर्तमाने ऽपि न ह्य् असि
Mind, you leap about in vain; I have seen your end. You are utterly empty at the beginning and end, and even in the present you do not truly exist.
मुधा पञ्चभिर् आकारैः किम् अन्तः परिवल्गसि । यस् त्वां त्व् आम् इति जानाति तस्यैतत् परिवल्ग्यते
Why do you vainly leap within in five forms? For the one who knows you as 'you' and 'me,' this leaping occurs.
त्वद्वल्गनं मे कुमनो न मनाग् अपि तुष्टये । मायानरस्पन्द इव व्यर्थं वृत्तिषु दह्यसे
Your leaping, O wicked mind, brings me not the slightest satisfaction; like the movement of a phantom, you are burned uselessly in your activities.
तिष्ठ वा गच्छ वा चित्त नासि मे शठ जीवसि । प्रकृत्यासि मृतं नित्यं विचारात् सुमृतं स्थितम्
Stay or go, mind; you are not alive for me, deceitful one. By nature you are always dead, and through discernment, you are firmly established as well-dead.
निस्तत्त्वं त्वं जडं भ्रातश् शठ नित्यमृताकृते । मूढ एव त्वयाज्ञेन वञ्च्यते न विचारवान्
You are insubstantial, inert, brother, deceitful, always appearing as dead; only the foolish are deceived by you, not those who are discerning.
वयम् आज्ञातवन्तस् त्वां मौर्ख्येणानुसृतं भवेत् । मृतम् अस्माकम् अद्यासि दीपानां तिमिरं यथा
We have recognized you; you persist through ignorance. Today you are dead to us, like darkness to lamps.
शठेन भवता दीर्घं कालं देहगृहं मम । उपरुद्धम् अभूत् पूर्वं साधुसंसर्गवर्जितम्
For a long time, my body-house was obstructed by you, deceitful one, lacking the company of the good.
जडे प्रेतसमाकारे गते त्वयि मनश्शठे । सर्वसज्जनसंसेव्यं इदं देहगृहं स्थितम्
When you, deceitful mind, have become inert and corpse-like, this body-house remains fit for the service of all virtuous people.
पूर्वम् एवासि नास्य् एव सम्प्रत्य् अपि जडं शठम् । न भविष्यसि चेदानीं किं वेताल न लज्जसे
You were never truly its own before, nor are you now; inert and deceitful. If you will not cease now, O vetala, do you not feel shame?
सह तृष्णापिशाचीभिस् सह कोपादिगुह्यकैः । निर्गच्छ चित्तवेताल शरीरसदनान् मम
Depart, O vetala of the mind, along with the goblins of craving and the spirits of anger and the rest, from my body-house.
दिष्ट्या विवेकमन्त्रेण निर्गतो देहमन्दिरात् । प्रमत्तचित्तवेतालः कुवृकः कन्दराद् इव
By fortune, through the mantra of discrimination, the reckless vetala of the mind has left the temple of the body, like a wicked beast from a cave.
अहो नु चित्रं सुमहज् जडेन क्षणभङ्गिना । मनश्शठेन सर्वो ऽयं नीतो विवशतां जनः
Ah, how astonishing and immense! By this inert, fleeting, deceitful mind, all people have been led into helplessness.
कस् ते पराक्रमः किं ते बलं कस् ते समाश्रयः । यदि वल्गसि माम् एव जनतां बाधसे तथा
What is your prowess, what is your strength, what is your refuge? If you leap upon me, you likewise trouble the people.
शठात्मैवासि न मया दीनचित्तक मार्यसे । मृतम् इत्य् अवबुद्धं त्वम् अद्य केवलम् अज्ञ हे
You are only a deceitful self, not subdued by me, O wretched mind; you are realized as dead today, ignorant one.
एतावन्तम् अहं कालं त्वां ज्ञात्वा जीवदास्थितम् । क्लिष्टः प्रभूतभङ्गासु चिरं संसृतिरात्रिषु
For so long I have known you as abiding in life; I have suffered greatly, through countless disruptions, in the nights of transmigration.
चित्तं मृतं हि नास्तीह त्व् इत्य् अद्यावगतं मया । तेन त्वदाशां सन्त्यज्य तिष्ठाम्य् आत्मनि केवलः
Truly, today I have realized that the mind does not exist here as something dead; therefore, abandoning hope in it, I remain established solely in the Self.
दिष्ट्या चित्तं मृतम् इति ज्ञातम् अद्य मया स्वयम् । न शठेन समं नीतं समग्रं जीवितं निजम्
By good fortune, today I have come to know for myself that the mind is dead; my entire life has not been spent in the company of that deceiver.
उत्सार्य देहसदनान् मनश्शठम् अहं क्षणात् । अयं स्वस्थस् स्थितो ऽस्म्य् अन्तर्वेतालपरिवर्जितः
Having swiftly expelled the deceitful mind from the abode of the body, I now stand inwardly at peace, free from the disturbances of the mind-phantom.
चित्तवेताललब्धेन चिरं कालं मयोद्धताः । कृता विकारा विविधास् स्वयं कृत्वा हसामि यान्
For a long time, under the influence of the mind-phantom, I was agitated and produced various distortions; now, having done so, I laugh at them myself.
चिरान् निपतितो दिष्ट्या विचारासिवराङ्कितः । हृद्गेहाच् चित्तवेतालस् तालोत्तालसमुन्नतिः
By good fortune, the mind-phantom, marked by the sword of inquiry, has at last fallen from the heart’s house, along with its tumultuous rise and fall.
प्रशान्तचित्तवेताले पवित्रां पदवीं गते । दिष्ट्या शरीरनगरे सुखं तिष्ठामि केवलः
With the mind-phantom pacified and having attained the pure path, by good fortune I now dwell happily and solely in the city of the body.
मृतं मनो मृताश् चिन्ता मृतो ऽहङ्कारराक्षसः । विचारमन्त्रेण समस् स्वस्थस् तिष्ठामि केवलः
The mind is dead, worries are dead, the demon of ego is dead; by the mantra of inquiry, I remain calm, healthy, and alone.
किं मनो मे ममाशाः काः को मे ऽहङ्कारको भवेत् । दिष्ट्या व्यर्थं कलत्रं मे नष्टम् एतद् अशेषतः
What is the mind to me? What desires do I have? Who could be my ego-maker? By good fortune, this entire false assembly has been utterly destroyed for me.
एकस्मै कृतकृत्याय नित्याय विमलात्मने । निर्विकल्पचिदाख्याय मह्यम् एव नमो नमः
Salutations again and again to myself alone, who is accomplished, eternal, of pure essence, known as undivided consciousness.
न ममाशा न कर्माणि न संसारो न कर्तृता । न भोक्तृता न देहो मे मह्यम् एव नमो नमः
There is no longing for me, no actions, no worldly existence, no sense of doership, no sense of enjoyership, no body—salutations to myself alone.
नाहम् आत्मा न चाकाशो न चैवायम् अहं स्वयम् । मम नास्ति व्यवच्छेदो मह्यम् एव नमो नमः
I am not the self, nor space, nor even this 'I' myself; there is no limitation for me—salutations to myself alone.