आतिवाहिकतां याति आधिभौतिक एव किम् । उतान्य इति मे ब्रूहि येनोह्य इव न प्रभो
Does the elemental body attain the state of the subtle body, or is it something else? Tell me, O master, for I do not understand, as if I were deluded.
बहुशो ऽप्य् उक्तम् एतन् मे न गृह्णासि किम् उत्तरम् । आतिवाहिक एवास्ति नास्त्य् एवेहाधिभौतिकः
Though I have told you this many times, why do you not accept the answer? Only the subtle body exists; here, the elemental body does not exist at all.
तस्यैवाभ्यासतो ऽभ्येति साधिभौतिकतामतिः । यदा शाम्यति सैवास्य तदा पूर्वा प्रवर्तते
Through repeated practice, the notion of the elemental body arises in him; when that subsides, the former state prevails again.
तदा गुरुत्वं काठिन्यं भित्तिमत्त्वं मुधाग्रहः । शाम्येत् स्वप्ने नरस्येव बोद्धुर् बोधान् निरामयात्
Then, heaviness, hardness, solidity, and mistaken grasping would cease, just as in a dream these qualities vanish for a person due to the pure awareness of the knower.
लघुतूलसमापत्तिस् ततस् समुपजायते । स्वप्ने स्वप्नपरिज्ञानाद् यथा देहो लघूभवेत्
Then arises the experience of lightness, like cotton, just as in a dream the body becomes light through the recognition that it is a dream.
तथा बोधाद् अयं देहस् स्थूलवत् प्लुतिमान् भवेत् । अनेकदिनसङ्कल्पदेहे परिणतात्मनाम्
Likewise, through awakening, this body, though gross, becomes capable of leaping, as happens for those whose minds have matured through many days of sustained intention.
अस्मिन् देहे शवे दग्धे तत्रैव स्थितिम् ईयुषाम् । लघुदेहानुभवनम् अवश्यंभावि वै तथा
When this body, now a corpse, is burned, those who remain there will inevitably experience a subtle embodiment.
प्रबोधातिशयाद् एति जीवताम् अपि योगिनाम् । उदितायां स्मृतौ तत्र सङ्कल्पात्माहम् इत्य् अलम्
Through the intensity of awakening, even while living, yogis attain this; when memory arises there, the notion 'I am this' is formed by mere thought.
यादृशस् स भवेद् देहस् तादृशो ऽयं प्रबोधिनः । भ्रान्तिर् एवम् इयं भाति रज्ज्वाम् इव भुजङ्गता । किं नष्टम् अस्यां नष्टायां जातायां किं प्रजायते
Whatever form that body may have, such is the body of the awakened one; this illusion appears just like the appearance of a snake in a rope. When it is gone, what is lost? When it arises, what is gained?
अनन्तरं ते वास्तव्या लीले पश्यन्ति ते यदि । तत् सत्यसङ्कल्पतया बुध्यन्ते किं ततः प्रभो
If, immediately after, they see their familiar surroundings as before, and if, by the power of true resolve, they become aware—what of it, O Lord?
एवं ज्ञास्यन्ति ते राज्ञी दुःखितेयम् इह स्थिता । वयस्या काचिद् अन्येयं कुतो ऽप्य् अस्या उपागता
Thus they will think: 'The queen is here, distressed; another woman, a friend, has come to her from somewhere.'
सन्देहः क इवात्रैषां पशवो ह्य् अविवेकिनः । यथादृष्टं विचेष्टन्ते कुत एषां विचारणा
What doubt can there be for them? For creatures lacking discernment act as they see, without inquiry—how could they reflect?
यथा लोष्टो लुठन् वृक्षं वञ्चयित्वाशु गच्छति । अज्ञात्वैवाज्ञजनता तथाद्र्यग्निसुरादिकम्
Just as a clod of earth, rolling, quickly passes a tree after striking it, so too do the ignorant pass by fire, mountains, gods, and the like, without knowing.
यथा स्वप्नवपुर् बोधेन जाने क्वेव गच्छति । असत्यम् एव तद् यस्मात् तथैवेहाधिभौतिकम्
Just as, upon waking, I know not where the body of the dream went—so too, all that is experienced in this world of matter is unreal.
भगवन् स्वप्नशिखरी प्रबोधे क्वेव गच्छति । इति मे संशयं छिन्धि शरदभ्रम् इवानिलः
O Lord, where does the peak of dream go upon awakening? Please dispel my doubt, like the wind disperses an autumn cloud.
स्वप्ने भ्रमे ऽथ सङ्कल्पे पदार्थाः पर्वतादयः । संविदो ऽन्तर् मिलन्त्य् एते स्पन्दनान्य् अनिलं यथा
In dream, confusion, or imagination, objects such as mountains exist within awareness; these movements merge inward, just as wind merges into itself.
अस्पन्दस्य यथा वायोस् स्वस्पन्दो ऽन्तर् विशत्य् अलम् । अस्फुरन्ती तु तेनैव यात्य् एकत्वं तदात्मिका
Just as the movement of wind subsides into its own stillness, so too, when movement ceases, it merges into its own essence and becomes one with it.
संवित्स्वप्नार्थयोर् द्वित्वं न कदाचन लभ्यते । यथा द्रवत्वपयसोर् यथा वा स्पन्दवातयोः
There is never any duality between awareness and dream objects, just as there is no duality between liquidity and water, or between movement and wind.
यस् त्व् अत्र स्याद् द्विताबोधस् तद् अज्ञानम् अनुत्तमम् । सैषा संसृतिर् इत्य् उक्ता मिथ्याज्ञानात्मिकोदिता
If there arises here the knowledge of duality, that is supreme ignorance; this is called saṃsāra, said to arise from the false notion of duality.
सहकारिकारणानाम् अभावे किल कीदृशी । संवित् स्वप्नपदार्थानां द्वित्वं स्वप्ने निरर्थकम्
Indeed, in the absence of contributing causes, what is the nature of awareness? The duality of dream objects in the dream is meaningless.
यथा स्वप्नस् तथा जाग्रद् इदं नात्रास्ति संशयः । स्वप्ने पुरम् असद् भाति सर्गादौ भाति असज् जगत्
Just as a dream, so is the waking state—there is no doubt about this; in a dream, a city appears unreal, and at the beginning of creation, the world appears unreal.
न चार्थो भवितुं शक्तस् सत्यत्वे स्वप्नचोदितः । संविदो नित्यसत्यत्वं स्वप्नार्थानाम् असत्यता
An object indicated in a dream cannot truly exist; the eternal reality belongs to awareness, while dream objects are unreal.
झगित्य् एव यथाकाशं भवति स्वप्नपर्वतः । क्रमेण वा तथा बोधे खं भवत्य् आधिभौतिकः
Just as, in a dream, a mountain appears suddenly in the sky, or gradually, so too in waking, the elemental sky appears in stages.
उड्डीनो ऽयं मृतो वेति पश्यन्ति निकटे स्थिताः । ज्ञानातिवाहिकीभूतस्वस्वभावहता यतः
Those standing nearby see someone as flying up or as dead, because their own nature is overpowered by the force of knowledge-transference.
मिथ्यादृष्टय एवेमास् सृष्टयो मोहदृष्टयः । मायामात्रदृशो भान्ति शून्यास् स्वप्नानुभूतयः
These creations are only false perceptions, born of delusion; they appear as mere illusions, empty, like experiences in a dream.
स्वप्नानुभूतय इमा मरणान्तर्बोधभातेतरभ्रमदृशस् स्फुटसर्गभासः । भान्त्य् आतिवाहिकशरीरगतास् समस्ता मिथ्योदिता मृगनदीमरणक्रमेण
These experiences in dreams, and the perceptions between death and awakening, and other such wanderings, all appear as clear manifestations, but they all arise falsely, like the sequence of a mirage and a river's death, within the vehicle-like subtle body.
एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे ज्ञप्तिर् जीवं वैदूरथं पुरः । सङ्कल्पेन रुरोधाशु मनसस् स्पन्दनं यथा
Meanwhile, awareness quickly restrained the living being, like a horse, before her, by the force of intention, just as the movement of the mind is checked.
वद देवि कियत् कालो गतो ऽयम् इह मन्दिरे । समाधौ मयि लीनायां महीपालशवे स्थिते
Tell me, Lady, how much time has passed here in this palace, while I was absorbed in samadhi and the king's corpse lay here?
इह मासस् त्व् अतिक्रान्त इह दास्याव् इमे उभे । रक्षार्थं वासकगृहे स्वपतो वहिते स्थिते
A month has passed here; these two maidservants have stayed in the inner chamber to guard you, while you slept and the body was carried here.
शृणु देहस्य किं वृत्तं तवेह वरवर्णिनि । शरीरं किल पक्षेण चोत्क्लिन्नस्नायुतां गतम्
Listen, beautiful one, to what has happened to your body here: the body, within a fortnight, has reached a state where the sinews have decayed.