यत् किञ्चिद् अपि सङ्कल्प्य नरो दुःखे निमज्जति । न किञ्चिद् अपि सङ्कल्प्य सुखम् अक्षयम् अश्नुते
Whenever a person imagines anything at all, he sinks into suffering; but by imagining nothing at all, he enjoys unending happiness.
सङ्कल्पव्यालनिर्मुक्तं स्थितं चेत् तव चेतनम् । तदानन्दवनोद्याने त्वम् उच्चैः परिराजसे
If your consciousness stands free from the serpent of thought, then you shine forth supremely in the garden of bliss.
स्वविवेकानिलैः कृत्वा सङ्कल्पजलदक्षयम् । परां निर्मलताम् एहि शरदीव नभोऽन्तरम्
By dispelling the cloud of thought with the wind of your own discernment, attain supreme purity, like the autumn sky within.
सङ्कल्पसरितं मत्तां मतियन्त्रेण शोषयन् । तत्रोह्यमानम् आत्मानं समाश्वास्य भवामनाः
Drying up the intoxicated river of thought with the machine of the mind, comfort your self there and become tranquil.
सङ्कल्पानिलनिर्धूतं भ्रान्तं पर्णतृणांशवत् । भूताकाशे त्वम् आत्मानम् अवलम्ब्यावलोकय
Shaken by the wind of thought, wandering like leaves and blades of grass—rely on your self in the space of being and observe.
स्वसङ्कल्पककालुष्यं विनिवार्यात्मनात्मनः । परं प्रसादम् आसाद्य परमानन्दवान् भव
By removing the impurity of your own thoughts with your own self, attaining supreme clarity, become one who possesses the highest bliss.
सर्वशक्तितयेहात्मा यद् यथा भावयत्य् अलम् । तत् तथा पश्यति तदा स्वसङ्कल्पविजृम्भितम्
Here, the Self, endowed with all powers, perceives exactly as it conceives; whatever it imagines, it sees, for it is manifested by its own thought.
सङ्कल्पमात्रम् एवेदं जगन् मिथ्या समुत्थितम् । असङ्कल्पनमात्रेण ब्रह्मन् क्वापि विलीयते
This world has arisen falsely, being nothing but mere imagination; by the cessation of imagination alone, O Brahman, it dissolves somewhere.
सङ्कल्पवातवलितं जन्मज्वालाकदम्बकम् । असङ्कल्पानिलस्पर्शाद् दीपवत् परिशाम्यति
The cluster of births, fanned by the wind of imagination, is extinguished like a lamp by the touch of the wind of non-imagination.
तृष्णाकरञ्जलतिकाम् इमां रूढिम् उपागताम् । सङ्कल्पमूलोद्धरणात् परिशोषवतीं कुरु
This creeper of thirst, which has grown strong, should be dried up by uprooting its root—imagination.
प्रतिभाससमुत्थानं प्रतिभासपरिक्षयम् । यथा गन्धर्वनगरं तथा संसृतिविभ्रमः
The arising and ceasing of appearances is like a city in the clouds; so too is the delusion of transmigration.
प्राकृतो ऽस्मीति विस्मृत्या तावच् छोचति भूमिपः । भूमिपो ऽस्मीति सञ्जाता यावन् नास्य हृदि स्मृतिः
A common man grieves as long as he forgets, 'I am the king'; but when the memory, 'I am the king,' arises, that grief no longer remains in his heart.
नश्यते जातया ब्रह्मन् प्राक्स्मृतिर् वर्तमानया । शरदेवोपगतया प्रावृड् जाड्यविकारिणी
O Brahman, the previous memory is destroyed by the arising of the present one, just as the rainy season, when it arrives, brings dullness and changes to the earth.
घनप्रवाहा यैव स्याच् चित्तेहा सैव वर्धते । य एवोच्चैस् स्वरस् तन्त्र्यास् स एवाक्रामति श्रुतिम्
Whatever strong current exists in the mind here, that alone increases; just as whatever note is struck loudly on the string, that alone reaches the ear.
अहम् एको ऽहम् आत्मा त्व् इत्य् एकां भावय भावनाम् । तया भावनया युक्तस् स एव त्वं भवस्य् अलम्
Contemplate this one thought: 'I am the one Self, I alone am.' With this contemplation, you become established as that very Self—this is sufficient.
एवं ह्य् असम्भवद् इदं त्व् अविभागभास्वद् ब्रह्मत्वम् उत्तमपदं परम् एव देवः । पूजांशपूजनसुपूजकपूज्यरूपं किञ्चिन् नकिञ्चिद् इव चित्तपनैकमूर्तिः
In this way, the supreme state of Brahman arises—undivided, radiant, and beyond conception. It is the divine, appearing as worship, the portion offered, the excellent worshipper, and the worshipped; it is like something and nothing, the one form of consciousness alone.
इत्थं स्थितम् इदं विश्वं सदसद् देवरूपि च । द्वैतैक्यपदनिर्मुक्तं मुक्तद्वैतैक्यम् अप्य् उत
Thus, this universe stands as both existent and nonexistent, appearing as the divine; it is free from the notions of duality and unity, and even transcends liberated duality and unity.
चितेः कलङ्कवद् रूपम् इति संसारितां गतम् । अकलङ्कम् असंसारि तच् चाभिन्नं द्वयात्मकम्
The form of consciousness, when tainted, leads to worldly existence; when untainted and free from worldly bonds, it remains undivided, yet appears as dual.
इयम् अस्मीति सम्प्राप्तकलङ्का चिन् निबध्यते । एताम् एव कलां बुद्ध्वा स्वत्वाभिन्नां विमुच्यते
When consciousness acquires the stain of 'I am this,' it becomes bound; realizing this very limitation as not separate from oneself, one is liberated.
चिद् अर्थाकारताभावाद् द्वित्वात् सत्त्वं समुज्झती । सुखदुःखादितां धत्ते नसत्यां सद् इति क्षणात्
When consciousness lacks the form of objectivity, duality ceases and pure being is abandoned; then, in an instant, it assumes the state of pleasure, pain, and so on, though these are not truly real.
शुद्धा निरंशा सत्यैका सत्ता चेत्येवमादिभिः । विमुक्ता नामशब्दार्थैस् सर्वैस् सर्वात्मिकापि खम्
Though pure, partless, and one with truth, though called existence, consciousness, and so on, it is free from all names and concepts, yet is the essence of all, like space.
सर्वं निरुपमं शान्तं मनसो ऽन्ते त्रिमार्गगम् । ब्रह्मेदं बृंहितं ब्राह्म्या शक्त्याकाशनिकाशया
All is incomparable, peaceful, and at the end of the mind’s path, found in three ways; this is Brahman, expanded by the power of Brahman, appearing as the space-like power of consciousness.
मनसा मनसि च्छिन्ने सर्वाक्षप्रसवात्मनि । द्वितीये ऽथ तृतीये वा पदे किम् अवशिष्यते
When the mind is dissolved within itself, in the source of all sensory activity, what remains in the second or third state?
यावत् किलात्मनस् सत्ता महासत्तैव तावती । समस्तास्तमये जाते सत्ता केव कुतश् च का
As long as the existence of the self persists, so long does the great existence endure; when all has come to cessation, what existence remains, and from where?
मनसा मनसि च्छिन्ने स्वेन्द्रियावयवात्मनि । विचारेण समाधानात् प्रयोगेण जयेन वा
When the mind is dissolved within itself, in its own sensory components, whether by inquiry, by absorption, by practice, or by conquest,
द्वैतैक्यकलनाभेदे गलिते कलितात्मनि । सत्यालोके जगज्जाले प्रोच्छूने विलयं गते
When the distinction between duality and unity ceases in the self that has realized unity, and in the light of truth the web of the world is scattered and dissolved,
शिष्यते शीर्णसंसारकलनाकलनात्मिका । भृष्टबीजोपमा सत्ता जीवस्य चितिनामिका
What remains is the essence of the dissolution of worldly constructs, the existence likened to a roasted seed, called consciousness in the living being.
पश्यन्तीनामकलिता त्यजन्ती चेत्यचर्वणम् । मनोमहाभ्रनिर्मुक्तशरदाकाशकोशवत्
It is the unmanifest, called the seer, abandoning the chewing of objects, like the autumn sky freed from the great clouds of the mind.
शुद्धा चिद् भावमात्रस्था चेत्यचिच्चापलाद् गता । अदूरविप्रकृष्टेशा पदोपनतिपावनी
Pure, abiding only in the state of consciousness, freed from the fickleness of subject and object, sanctifying the approach to the near and far supreme state.
चिद् व्योमात्मेति कलिता गलिताखिलकल्पना । समस्तसामान्यवती नावतीर्णभवार्णवा
Consciousness, conceived as the sky of awareness, with all imagination dissolved, possessing universal sameness, not descended into the ocean of becoming.