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.
अपुनर्बोधसौषुप्तपदपाण्डित्यपीवरी । पारम् आसाद्य विश्रान्ता चिरश्रान्ता तते पदे
Having reached the far shore of the deep sleep-like state of non-reawakening, rich in the scholarship of sleep, she, long wearied, finds rest in that state.
एतत् ते मनसि क्षीणे कथितं प्रथमं पदम् । द्वितीयं शृणु विप्रेन्द्र शक्तेर् अस्यास् सुपावनम्
This, O foremost of Brahmins, is the first state I have described to you when the mind is dissolved; now hear the second, the supremely pure power of this.
एषैव मननोन्मुक्ता चिच्छक्तिश् शान्तिशालिनी । सर्वज्योतिस्तमोमुक्तवितताकाशसुन्दरी
This very power of consciousness, freed from the mind, full of peace, radiant with all light, untouched by darkness, and beautiful as the expanse of space—
घनसौषुप्तलेखावच्छिलान्तस्सन्निवेशवत् । सैन्धवान्तस्स्थरसवद् वातान्तस्स्पन्दशक्तिवत्
—is like the subtle trace of deep sleep, like the essence within a stone, like the salt within water, like the latent motion within wind.
कालेनायाति तत्रैव परां परिणतिं यदा । शब्दशक्तिर् इवाकाशे परमाकाशगा तदा
In time, she attains there the highest transformation, just as the power of sound, in space, reaches the supreme ether.
चेत्यांशोन्मुखतां नूनं त्यजन्त्य् अम्ब्व् इव चापलम् । वातलेखेव चलनं पुष्पलेखेव सौरभम्
She surely abandons all inclination toward objects of cognition, just as water gives up restlessness, as a line of wind gives up movement, or a line of fragrance gives up scent.
कालताकाशते त्यक्त्वा सकले चापले ऽमला । न जडां नाजडां स्फारां धत्ते सत्ताम् अनामिकाम्
Having abandoned all impurity in the expanse of time, she, pure, assumes neither inert nor non-inert, nor expansive being—she abides in an unnamable existence.
दिक्कालाद्यनवच्छिन्नां महासत्तापदाद् गताम् । तुर्यतुर्यांशकलिताम् अकलङ्काम् अनामयाम्
Transcending limitation by direction, time, and so on, having reached the state of supreme existence, she partakes of the fourth beyond the fourth, stainless and free from affliction.
काञ्चिद् एव विशालाक्षसाक्षिवत् समवस्थिताम् । सर्वतस् सर्वदा सर्वप्रकारास्वादतत्पराम्
There is a certain state, O wide-eyed one, that is ever established as the witness, always and everywhere, delighting in every manner of experience.
एषा द्वितीया पदता कथिता तव सुव्रत । तृतीयं शृणु वक्ष्यामि पदं पदविदां वर
This, O noble one, is described as the second stage; now listen, best of those who know the stages, as I explain the third.
एषा दृक् चेत्यगलनाद् अनामार्थपदं गता । ब्रह्मात्मत्वादिशब्दार्थाद् अतीतोदेति केवलम्
This vision, by the dissolution of the perceived and the perceiver, reaches the state beyond names and objects, transcending the meanings of words like 'Brahman' and 'Self,' and arises as the pure alone.
स्थैर्येण कालतस् स्वाच्छ्यान् निष्कलङ्कपदात्मना । तुर्यातीतादिनामत्वाद् अपि याति परं पदम्
Through steadfastness, purity over time, and the nature of the stainless state, by being called 'beyond the fourth' and so on, it attains the supreme state.
सा परात् परमा काष्ठा प्रधानं शिवभावतः । नित्यैका निरवच्छेद्या तृतीया पावनी स्थितिः
That is the highest of the high, the ultimate limit, the principal state of auspiciousness; the third, pure abode, eternal, one, and indivisible.
चिरम् अस्यां प्रतिष्ठायां सर्वाशाध्वानदूरगा । सा ममाप्य् अङ्ग वचसां न समायाति गोचरम्
Even after abiding long in that state, all paths and desires are left far behind; O dear one, even for me, it does not come within the reach of words.
त्रिमार्गकलनातीतम् इति ते कथितं मुने । तिष्ठैतस्मिन् पदे नित्यम् इति देवस् सनातनः
Thus, O sage, I have described to you that which is beyond the calculation of the three paths; remain always established in this state, O eternal one.
एतन्मयम् इदं विश्वं मुने तन्मयवेदनात् । सत्यसंवेदनान् नेदं न च नेदं मुनीश्वर
This universe, O sage, is made of that alone; by knowing oneself as that, through true awareness, this is not this, nor is it not this, O lord of sages.
नेदं प्रवर्तते किञ्चिन् नेदं किञ्चित् निवर्तते । शान्तं समसमाभासम् अखम् एव खकोशवत्
Nothing here arises, nothing here ceases; it is peaceful, appearing the same in all, undivided, like the sky within a jar.
अद्वैतैक्याद् असङ्क्षोभाद् घनाघनतया तथा । अविकारादिमत्त्वाच् च नित्यानित्यतया चिरम्
Because of nonduality, unshakability, the nature of density and subtlety, changelessness and the presence of beginnings, and the distinction of eternal and non-eternal, for a long time—
चिद्घनात्मतया शैलकोशानां जगताम् अपि । मनाग् अपि न भेदो ऽस्ति सताम् अप्य् असताम् इव
Even among the worlds, which are like mountains enclosed in consciousness, there is not the slightest difference, whether among the real or the unreal.
समस्तं सच् छिवं शान्तम् अतीतं वाग्विलासतः । ॐ इत्य् अस्य च तन्मात्रात् तुर्यांशात् परम् ॐ इति
All is existence, auspiciousness, peace, and beyond the play of speech; and the essence of 'Om,' which is the supreme state beyond even the fourth (turya) part.