यैषा हि मानसी शक्तिर् इष्टानिष्टानुबन्धिनी । अनयेदं मुधा भ्रान्त्या स्वप्नवत् परिकल्पितम्
For this is a mental power, binding one to what is desired and undesired; by it, through delusion, this world is imagined in vain, like a dream.
अविद्यैषा दुरन्तैषा दुःखायैषा हि वर्धते । अपरिज्ञायमानैषा तनोतीदम् असन्मयम्
This is ignorance, difficult to cross, the cause of suffering; when not recognized, it gives rise to this illusory world.
एषा कुड्यवद् आकाशं तुषारम् अनलं यथा । परिपश्यति विभ्रान्ता स्वरूपस्य स्वभावतः
Deluded by it, one perceives space as if it were a wall, frost as fire, all due to the inherent nature of one's own being.
असद् एवेदम् आरम्भमन्थरं सद् इवोत्थितम् । कल्पितं जगद् आभोगि दीर्घस्वप्न इवैतया
This world, seemingly substantial, is in truth insubstantial, arising sluggishly like something real; it is conjured up by this power, like a long dream.
भावनामात्रम् एवास्यास् स्वरूपं कर्तृतां गतम् । जगताम् आकुलं चक्षुर् व्योम्नि पिञ्छकताम् इव
Its very essence is mere imagination, assuming the role of doer; it makes the eyes of the world restless, like a peacock's plume fluttering in the sky.
लयम् अस्यास् स्वरूपं त्वं नय राम विचारणात् । यथा हिमशिलायास् तु तपनाद् दिवसाधिपः
Lead this power to dissolution, O Rama, through inquiry—just as the sun, lord of the day, melts a block of ice.
हिमाभावार्थिनो ऽर्कस्य स्वोदयेन हितं यथा । सिध्यत्य् एवं विचारेण मनोनाशार्थिनो ऽर्थितम्
Just as the rise of the sun benefits those seeking the disappearance of frost, so too, through inquiry, is fulfilled the aim of one seeking the dissolution of the mind.
अविद्या सम्प्रवृत्ता हि विततानर्थदुर्गमा । नानेन्द्रजालकलणं शाम्बरी हेम वर्षति
Ignorance has arisen, spreading a web of misfortune and difficulty; like a magician’s illusion, it showers golden rain.
स्वविनाशक्रियां चैतां मन एव करोत्य् अलम् । मनो ह्य् आत्मवधं नाम नाटकं परिनृत्यति
The mind itself performs its own destruction; indeed, the mind dances the drama called self-slaughter.
आत्मानम् ईक्षते चेतस् स्वविनाशाय केवलम् । न हि जानाति दुर्बुद्धिर् विनाशं प्रत्युपस्थितम्
The mind perceives itself only for its own ruin; the misguided intellect does not recognize the destruction approaching.
असङ्कल्पनमात्रेण स्वविकल्पदशाम् इदम् । मनस् संसाधयत्य् आशु क्लेशो नात्रोपयुज्यते
By mere absence of conceptualization, the mind quickly attains its own state of freedom from conceptualization; suffering does not arise here.
स्वं विकल्प्य विकल्प्याशु विवेकोपहितं मनः । सन्त्यज्य रूपम् आरम्भि करोत्य् आत्मावबोधनम्
By swiftly discarding its own conceptualizations, the mind, aided by discernment, abandons its form and initiates self-realization.
महोदयो मनोनाशो महोत्पातो ऽस्य तूदयः । मनोनाशे प्रयत्नं त्वं कुरु मा मनसो जवे
The destruction of the mind is a great awakening, a mighty upheaval; strive for the dissolution of the mind, do not pursue its speed.
अविरलसुखदुःखवृक्षषण्डे विषमकृतान्तमहोरगे वने ऽस्मिन् । प्रभुर् इदम् अखिले विवेकहीनं सुभग मनो महद् आपदेकहेतुः
In this forest, dense with trees of uninterrupted pleasure and pain, and dangerous with the serpent of death, the mind, lacking discernment, is the master of all and the sole cause of great calamity.
इत्य् उक्तवत्य् अथ मुनौ दिवसो जगाम सायन्तनाय विधये ऽस्तम् इनो जगाम । स्नातुं सभा कृतनमस्करणा जगाम श्यामाक्षये रविकरैश् च सहाजगाम
After the sage spoke thus, the day moved toward evening and the sun set; the assembly, having offered salutations, departed to bathe, and went together with the sun’s rays to the darkening hour.
परस्माद् उत्थितं चेतः कणो लोल इवार्णवात् । स्फारताम् एत्य भुवनं तनोतीदम् इतस् ततः
The mind, arising from the Supreme, like a restless drop from the ocean, expands and spreads this world here and there.
ह्रस्वं दीर्घीकरोत्य् आशु दीर्घं नयति खर्वताम् । स्वतां नयत्य् अन्यद् अलं स्वं तथैवान्यताम् अपि
It quickly makes the small appear large and the large seem small; it turns what is its own into something else, and likewise makes what is other into its own.
प्रादेशमात्रम् अपि यद् वस्तु भावनयैव तत् । स्वयं सम्पन्नयैवाशु करोत्य् अद्रीन्द्रभासुरम्
Whatever thing, even as small as a span, the mind imagines, it swiftly makes it, by its own power, shine like a great mountain.
लब्धप्रतिष्ठं परमात् पदाद् उल्लसितं मनः । निमेषेणैव संसारान् करोति न करोति च
The mind, having gained a footing and arisen from the highest state, in a mere instant creates and dissolves worlds.
यद् इदं दृश्यते किञ्चिज् जगत् स्थास्नु चरिष्णु च । सर्वं सर्वप्रकाराढ्यं चित्ताद् एतद् उपागतम्
Whatever is seen here in this world, whether moving or unmoving, all of it, in every form, has arisen from the mind.
देशकालक्रियाद्रव्यशक्तिपर्याकुलीकृतम् । भावाद् भावान्तरं याति लोलत्वान् नटवन् मनः
Surrounded by space, time, action, substance, and power, the mind, due to its fickleness, moves from one state to another like an actor.
सद् असत्तां नयत्य् आशु सत्तां चासन् नयत्य् अलम् । तादृशान्य् एव चादत्ते सुखदुःखानि भावितम्
It quickly makes the existent into the nonexistent, and the nonexistent into the existent; and it takes on only those joys and sorrows that it has imagined.
यथानिश्चयम् आदत्ते यथैव चपलं मनः । हस्तपादादिसङ्घातस् तथा प्रयतते सदा
Just as the fickle mind grasps things according to its own uncertainty, so too do the hands, feet, and other organs always act accordingly.
ततस् सैव क्रिया चित्तसमीहितम् अलं फलम् । क्षणात् प्रयच्छति लता काले सिक्तेव तादृशम्
Then, that very action, being the intention of the mind, quickly yields its result, just as a vine produces fruit at the proper time when watered.
चित्रां क्रीडनकश्रेणीं यथा पङ्काद् गृहे शिशुः । करोत्य् एवं मनो राम विकल्पात् कुरुते जगत्
Just as a child makes a variety of playthings from mud in the house, so, O Rama, the mind, through imagination, creates the world.
मनश्शिशुजनक्रीडामृदूद्गारलवेष्व् अतः । किम् एकं तत्पदार्थेषु रूपं जगति कल्प्यते
Therefore, as the mind delights in the play of children, in their mud and babbling, why is a single form imagined as the reality among objects in the world?
करोत्य् ऋतुकरः कालो यथा रूपान्यतां तरोः । चित्तम् एवं पदार्थानां तेषाम् एवान्यताम् इह
Just as the season-bringing time causes the tree to take on different forms, so the mind alone is responsible for the various forms of objects here.
मनोरथे तथा स्वप्ने सङ्कल्पकलनासु च । गोष्पदं योजनव्यूहस् स्वासु लीलासु चेतसः
In fantasy, in dreams, and in the fabrications of thought, the mind creates, in its own play, a pond the size of a league within a cow’s hoofprint.
कल्पं क्षणीकरोत्य् एतत् क्षणं नयति कल्पताम् । मनस् तदायत्तम् अतो देशकालक्रमं विदुः
This mind makes an age into a moment, and a moment into an age; therefore, those who know say that sequence of place and time depends on the mind.
तीव्रमन्दत्वसंवेगाद् बहुत्वाल्पत्वभेदतः । विलम्बते न च चिरं न च चित्तम् अशक्तितः
Because of the intensity or slowness of effort, and the distinction of much or little, the mind is delayed, but not for long, nor due to lack of power.