क्षणं स्फुरन्ती सा देवी सर्वशक्तितया तया । चिनोति स्वां स्वयं शक्तिं कलेन्दोश् शीतताम् इव
For a moment, that goddess, flashing as all power, gathers her own power herself, just as the moon gathers its coolness.
उदितैषा प्रकाशाख्या चिच्छक्तिः परमात्मनः । देशकालक्रियाशक्तीर् वयस्यास् सम्प्रकर्षति
This consciousness-power, called illumination, arising from the supreme self, draws together the powers of space, time, and action, its companions.
अविदित्वा स्वभावं स्वं व्याप्यानन्तपदं स्थिता । रूपं परिमितेवासौ भावयत्य् अविभाविता
Without knowing its own nature, though pervading the infinite realm, it imagines its form as limited, though its true being is not distinguished.
यदैव भावितं रूपं तया परमकान्तया । तदैवैनाम् अनुगता नामसङ्ख्यादिका दृशः
Whenever that supreme beloved has conceived a form, then immediately the perceptions of name, number, and so on, follow her.
चिद् अथैतदवस्थैव व्यतिरिक्ता स्थितात्मनः । अनन्ता तद्गतैवाशु लहरीव महार्णवात्
Consciousness, in this very state, remains distinct from the embodied self; yet, being infinite, it swiftly enters into it, like a wave from the great ocean.
यथा कटककेयूरैर् भेदो हेम्नो विलक्षणः । तथात्मनश् चिता रूपं भावयन्त्या स्वम् आंशिकम्
Just as the difference between bracelets and armlets is not truly distinct from gold, so the form imagined by consciousness is only a partial aspect of the self.
यथा दीपेन दीपानां जातानाम् आत्मना तथा । देशकालकलामात्रभेदस् स्वो भावितश् चिता
Just as one lamp lights other lamps with its own flame, so the form conceived by consciousness is only a variation due to differences of place, time, and measure.
देशकालपरिस्पन्दशक्तिसन्दीपिताथ चित् । सङ्कल्पम् अनुधावन्ती प्रयाति कलनापदम्
Then, consciousness, stirred by the power of the movements of place and time, following thought, enters into the state of calculation.
विकल्पकल्पिताकारं देशकालक्रियास्पदम् । चितो रूपं महाबाहो क्षेत्रज्ञ इति कथ्यते
O mighty-armed one, the form of consciousness, imagined by conceptualization, and situated in place, time, and action, is called the 'knower of the field.'
क्षेत्रं शरीरम् इत्य् आहुस् तद् असौ वेत्त्य् अखण्डितम् । सबाह्याभ्यन्तरं तेन क्षेत्रज्ञ इति कथ्यते
They say the 'field' is the body, and that one knows it without division, both externally and internally; therefore, he is called the 'knower of the field.'
वासनाः कल्पयन् सो ऽपि यात्य् अहङ्कारतां पुनः । अहङ्कारो विनिर्णीता कालिकी बुद्धिर् उच्यते
He, too, fabricating desires, again assumes the state of ego; and the ego, when determined, is called the intellect associated with time.
बुद्धिस् सङ्कल्पकलिता प्रयाता मननास्पदम् । मनो घनविकल्पं तु गच्छतीन्द्रियतां शनैः
The intellect, formed by intention, becomes the ground of thought; but the mind, dense with varied imaginations, gradually assumes the nature of the senses.
पाणिपादमयं देहम् इन्द्रियाणि विदुर् बुधाः । देहो ऽसौ जायते लोके म्रियते ऽपि च जीवति
The wise know the body as composed of hands and feet, and the senses; this body is born in the world, it dies, yet it also lives.
एवं जीवो हि सङ्कल्पो वासनारज्जुवेष्टितः । दुःखजालपरीतात्मा क्रमाद् आयाति चित्तताम्
In this way, the individual soul is indeed intention, wrapped in the cord of latent impressions; afflicted by the net of sorrow, it gradually attains the state of mind.
क्रमेण पाकवशतः फलम् एति यथान्यताम् । अवस्थयैव नाकृत्या जीवो मलवशात् तथा
Just as, through the force of ripening, fruit attains another state in due course, so too the soul, because of impurity, changes state not by action but by condition.
जीवो ऽहङ्कारतां प्राप्तस् त्व् अहङ्कारश् च बुद्धिताम् । सङ्कल्पजालवलिता मनस्तां बुद्धिर् आगता
The soul attains the state of egoity, and the ego becomes intellect; intellect, enveloped by the net of intentions, reaches the state of mind.
मनो हि सङ्कल्पमयं संस्थाग्रहणतत्परम् । प्रतियोगिव्यवच्छिन्नं प्राप्तम् अन्यैर् अपीहितैः
Indeed, the mind is made of intention, intent on grasping forms; it is defined by its opposites, and is affected by what is imposed by others.
इच्छाद्याश् शक्तयो मत्तां गावो वृषम् इवोन्मदम् । अनुधावन्ति दोषाय सरितस् सागरं यथा
Desires and other powers, like cows after a bull or rivers after the sea, pursue the intoxicated mind for the sake of fault.
इतिशक्तिमयं चेतो घनाहङ्कारतां गतम् । कोशकारक्रिमिकवद् इच्छया याति बन्धनम्
Thus, this mind, composed of powers and become dense egoity, is bound by its own will, like a silkworm by the thread it spins.
स्वसङ्कल्पानुसन्धानात् पाशैर् आवलयद् वपुः । कष्टम् अस्मि स्वयं बद्धम् इत्य् आर्त्या परितप्यते
By continually following its own imaginations, it binds itself with fetters to the body; then, tormented by distress, it laments, 'Alas, I am bound!'
बद्धम् अस्मीति कलयद् विद्यातत्त्वं जहच् छनैः । अविद्यां जनयत्य् अन्तर् जगज्जङ्गलराक्षसीम्
Thinking, 'I am bound,' it gradually abandons the essence of true knowledge, and within gives rise to ignorance, the demon that haunts the jungle of the world.
स्वसङ्कल्पिततन्मात्रजालाभ्यन्तरवर्ति च । परां विवशताम् एति शृङ्खलाबद्धसिंहवत्
Dwelling within the web of subtle elements it has itself imagined, it falls into utter helplessness, like a lion chained.
विचित्रकार्यकर्तृत्वम् आहरद् वासनावशात् । स्वेच्छामात्रानुरचिता दशाश् चानुपतन् नवाः
Compelled by latent tendencies, it assumes various roles as the doer of diverse actions, and new states arise, shaped solely by its own will.
क्वचिन् मनः क्वचिद् बुद्धिः क्वचिज् ज्ञानं क्वचित् क्रिया । क्वचिद् एतद् अहङ्कारः क्वचित् पुर्यष्टकं स्मृतम्
At times it is called mind, at times intellect, at times knowledge, at times action; sometimes it is known as ego, and sometimes as the subtle body.
क्वचित् प्रकृतिर् इत्य् उक्तं क्वचिन् मायेति कल्पितम् । क्वचिन् मन इति प्रोक्तं क्वचित् कर्मेति संस्थितम्
Sometimes it is described as nature, sometimes imagined as illusion; sometimes it is called mind, and sometimes it is established as action.
क्वचिद् बन्ध इति ख्यातं क्वचिच् चित्तम् इति स्फुटम् । प्रोक्तं क्वचिद् अविद्येति क्वचिद् इच्छेति सङ्गतम्
Sometimes it is known as bondage, sometimes clearly as mind; sometimes it is called ignorance, and sometimes it is associated with desire.
तद् एतद् आबद्धम् इह चित्तं राघव दुःखितम् । तृष्णाशोकसमाविष्टं रोगायतनम् आतुरम्
This, O Raghava, is the mind bound here, afflicted with sorrow, seized by craving and grief, the abode of disease, and ever suffering.
जरामरणमोहार्तं भवभावनया हतम् । ईहितानीहितैर् ग्रस्तम् अविद्यारागरञ्जितम्
Afflicted by the delusion of old age and death, struck down by the imagination of worldly existence, seized by actions done and undone, stained by the color of the cave of ignorance.
इच्छासङ्कुचिताकारं कर्मवृक्षनवाङ्कुरम् । सुविस्मृतोत्पत्तिपदं कल्पितानर्थकल्पनम्
Its form contracted by desire, the fresh sprout of the tree of action, its origin utterly forgotten, fabricating imagined misfortunes.
कोशकारवद् आबद्धं कोशकारपदं गतम् । तन्मात्रवृन्दावयवम् अनन्तनरकातपम्
Bound like a cocoon-maker, having reached the state of the cocoon-maker, composed of the group of subtle elements, scorched by the heat of countless hells.