तत् पदं परमं विद्धि नाशोत्पादविवर्जितम् । स्वकं कचति चाभातं शान्तम् आद्यम् अनामयम्
Know that supreme state, free from destruction and origination; it moves as its own, unmanifest, peaceful, primordial, and free from affliction.
किल मण्डपगेहान्तस् स्वस्वभावोदितात्मनि । विहरन्ति जनास् तत्र स्वगृहे संव्यवस्थया
Indeed, within the pavilion-house, people dwell in their own nature-arisen self; there, in their own house, they abide by their own arrangement.
न जगत् तत्र नो सर्गः कश्चित् तैर् अनुभूयते । तेनाहं जगद् आकाशम् अजम् इत्य् एव वच्मि ते
There is no world there, nor is any creation experienced by them; therefore, I say to you that this world is like space, unborn.
सर्वं शून्यात्मविज्ञानं मेर्वादिगिरिजालकम् । नेदं कुड्यमयं किञ्चिद् यथा स्वप्ने महापुरम्
All is consciousness of the nature of emptiness; the ranges of mountains from Meru onward are not made of walls, just as a great city in a dream is not.
देशे प्रादेशमात्रे ऽपि गिरिजालमयान्य् अपि । वज्रसाराणि खान्य् एव सम्भवन्त्य् अणुके ऽणुके
Even within a space the size of a thumb, mountain ranges and other such things, though thought to be hard as diamond, arise only as empty forms in each tiny atom.
कदलीपल्लवापीडसन्निवेशेन भूरिशः । त्रिजगच् चिदणाव् अन्तर् अस्ति स्वप्नपुरं यथा
Just as the layers of a plantain's leaf are arranged one within another, so too, within each atomic consciousness of the three worlds, there exists a dream-city.
तस्याप्य् अन्तर् विभागेन क्रमाद् एकैकशो जगत् । तेषां यस्मिञ् जगत्य् एव पद्मो राजा शवस् स्थितः
Within that, by further division, world after world arises in succession; in one such world, Padma, the king, lies as a corpse.
लीला तव सपत्नी तं प्राप्ता पूर्वतरं शुभे । यदैव मूर्छाम् आयाता लीलेयं पुरतस् तव । तदैव भर्तुः पद्मस्य शवस्य निकटे स्थिता
O auspicious one, your co-wife Lila reached there before you; at the very moment this Lila, your counterpart, entered into unconsciousness before you, she stood near the corpse of her husband Padma.
कथम् एषा गता देवि सम्पन्ना तत्र देहिनी । कथं कथं वा तत्पत्नीभावम् आप्तवती स्थिता
How did she, O goddess, go there and become embodied? And how did she attain and remain in the state of being his wife?
ते वास्या वद किं रूपं पश्यन्त्य् अथ वदन्ति किम् । तद्गेहवरवास्तव्यास् समासेनेति मे वद
Tell me, what form do those women see or speak of there? Tell me briefly about the chief residents of that house.
शृणु सर्वं समासेन यथादृष्टं वदामि ते । लीले लीलास्ववृत्तान्तम् अन्तदं दृश्यदुर्दृशाम्
Listen, I will tell you everything concisely, just as I have seen it; the story of Lila’s play, which ends with the vision of what is seen and unseen.
पद्म एव स भर्तैष भ्रान्तिं तावत् तताम् इमाम् । इत्थं जगन्मयीं स्वस्मिन्न् एव सद्मनि पश्यति
Just as the lotus is the lord of its pond, so he spreads this illusion; thus, he perceives the world, which is woven into himself, within his own abode.
भ्रान्तियुद्धम् इदं युद्धम् इमे भ्रान्तिजना जनाः । भ्रान्त्यैवास्तीह मरणम् एष चैव भ्रमात्मकः
This battle is a battle of delusion; these people are born of delusion; in this world, death itself is through delusion, and this is indeed the nature of confusion.
भ्रमक्रमेणानेनैव लीलास्य दयिता स्थिता । त्वं चैषा च वरारोहे स्वप्नमात्रा वराङ्गने
Through this very sequence of confusion, Lila’s beloved remains; you and she, O beautiful one, are nothing but a dream, O lovely-limbed woman.
तथा भवत्योर् भर्तैष तथैवाहम् अपि स्वयम् । जगच्छोभैव संसारे दृश्यसे तद् इहोच्यते
In the same way, this lord exists for both of you, and so do I myself; the splendor of the world is seen in samsara, and thus it is spoken here.
एतद् एव परिज्ञातं दृश्यशब्दार्थम् उज्झति । एवम् एषा त्वम् एवं च सम्पन्नैवम् असौ नृपः
This alone is understood, and the meaning of the word 'seen' is abandoned; thus, she is as you are, and the king is accomplished in the same way.
अहं चात्मनि सत्यत्वगतास् सर्वतयात्मनः । इमे वयम् इहान्योऽन्यं सम्पन्नास् स्वोदिता इव
I too, established in the truth of the Self, am the Self of all; we here are mutually accomplished, as if self-arisen.
इत्थं सर्वात्मकतया महाचिद्घनसंस्थितेः । एवम् एषा स्थिता राज्ञी हारिहासविलासिनी
Thus, in the state of being the essence of all, established in the mass of supreme consciousness, the queen remains, radiant with enchanting laughter.
लीलाविलोलनयना नवयौवनशालिनी । पेशलाचारमधुरा मधुरोदारभाषिणी
Her eyes playfully glance, she is adorned with fresh youth; her conduct is graceful, her speech sweet and noble.
कोकिलस्वरसङ्काशा मदमन्मथमन्थरा । असितोत्पलपत्त्राक्षी वृत्तपीनापयोधरा
Her voice resembles the song of the cuckoo, she moves languidly with the intoxication of love; her eyes are like the petals of a dark lotus, her breasts full and rounded.
कान्तकाञ्चनगौराङ्गी पक्वबिम्बफलाधरा । त्वत्सङ्कल्पात्मकस्यैषा यथा भर्तुर् मनःकला
Her limbs are golden and lovely, her lips ripe as bimba fruit; she is, by your thought, just as the image in the mind of her husband.
तदा त्वत्सदृशाकारा स्थितैषा चिच्चमत्कृतौ । त्वद्भर्तृमरणे क्षिप्रं समनन्तरम् एव हि
Then, taking on a form like yours, she stood amazed in consciousness; and immediately upon the death of her husband, she too perished at once.
त्वद्भर्तैषा पुरो दृष्टा त्वत्सङ्कल्पात्मनाणुना । यदाधिभौतिकं भावं चेतो ऽनुभवति स्वयम्
She was seen before her husband, who was a particle of your own thought; whatever the mind experiences as physical reality, it perceives by itself.
वेत्त्य् असन्मयम् एवात आतिवाहिककल्पनम् । यदाधिभौतिकं भावं वेत्त्य् एतं तु न सन्मयम्
It knows that this is not real, but a projection of the subtle body; whatever the mind perceives as physical, it knows this is not truly real.
आतिवाहिकसङ्कल्पस् तदा सो ऽन्यस्य जायते । अतो मरणसंवित्त्या पुनर्जन्ममये भ्रमे
The projection of the subtle body arises then in another; thus, through the awareness of death, there is again the illusion of rebirth.
त्वं हि संविदितानेन त्वयावगत एष सः । इत्थं त्वां दृष्टवान् एष दृष्टश् चैष त्वयेति च
For you are the knower of this, and by you this has been understood; thus, he saw you, and you saw him as well.
त्वम् अस्यात्मनि संपन्ना सर्वगत्वाच् चिदात्मनः । ब्रह्म सर्वगतं यस्माद् यथा यत्र यदोदितम्
You are established in this Self, for consciousness is all-pervading; since Brahman is everywhere, whatever arises, wherever and however, is that.
भवत्य् आशु तथा तत्र तत् स्वशक्त्यैव पश्यति । सर्वत्र सर्वशक्तित्वाद् यत्र यां शक्तिम् उन्नयन्
There, it quickly becomes so; by its own power, it perceives thus. Being all-powerful everywhere, it manifests whatever power it raises, wherever.
आस्ते तत्र तथा भाति तीव्रसंवेगहेतुतः । मृतिमोहक्षणेनैव तद् एतौ दम्पती स्थितौ
It abides there and shines thus, due to the force of intense impulse; in the very moment of death and delusion, that pair—husband and wife—remained.
तदैवाभ्याम् इदं बुद्धं प्रतिभासवशाद् धृदि । आवयोः पितराव् एताव् इमे चैवापि मातरौ
Then, for both of them, this understanding arose in the heart, by the force of appearance: 'These are our fathers, and these too are our mothers.'