ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 eṣa cānantaśaktitvād evam ābhāsayaty amūn bhāvān icchāvaśād eṣā … And he, because he possesses infinite powers, thus makes these entities appear, by the…
- 2 jaḍasya tu na sā śaktiḥ sattā yad asataḥ … But an insentient thing does not have that power — the conferring of being, which makes…
- 3 yad asat tad asadyuktā nāsataḥ satsvarūpatā sato 'pi … What is non-existent remains tied to non-existence: the non-existent cannot come to have…
- 4 kāryakāraṇatā loke sāntarviparivartinaḥ ubhayendriyavedyatvaṃ tasya kasyāpi śaktitaḥ Causality in the world belongs to that which undergoes internal transformation;
- 5 evam ekā kriyā saiṣā sakramāntarbahiḥsthitiḥ ekasyaivobhayākārasahiṣṇor apapāditā Thus this single action, whose sequential status is both inner and outer, has been…
- 6 bahis tasyaiva tatkāryaṃ yad anta yad apekṣayā pramātrapekṣayā … What is the external effect of that very (subject) is inner in relation to that to which…
- 7 mātaiva kāraṇaṃ tena sa cābhāsadvayasthitau kāryasya sthita evaikas … The cognizing subject alone is the cause;
- 8 ata evāṅkure 'pīṣṭo nimittaṃ parameśvaraḥ tad anyasyāpi bījāder … For this very reason, the Supreme Lord is held to be the (true) cause even of the sprout;
- 9 tathā hi kumbhakāro 'sāv aiśvaryaiva vyavasthayā tattanmṛdādisaṃskārakrameṇa janayed … For indeed, that potter, by the Lord's sovereign power alone in its ordering, would…
- 10 yoginām api mṛdbīje vinaivecchāvaśena tat ghaṭādi jāyate tattatsthirasvārthakriyākaram For yogins, too, by the power of (their) will alone, entirely without clay or seed, that…
- 11 yoginirmāṇatābhāve pramāṇāntaraniścite kāryaṃ hetuḥ svabhāvo vā-ta evotpattimūlajaḥ When the yogin's creation is present, ascertained by another means of knowledge, the…
- 12 bhūyas tattatpramātrekavahnyābhāsādito bhavet parokṣād apy adhipater dhūmābhāsādi nūtanam Further, from the appearance of fire and the like in this or that single subject — and…
- 13 kāryam avyabhicāryasya liṅgam anyapramātṛgāt tadābhāsas tadābhāsād eva tv … The effect is an inferential mark of the invariable (cause);
- 14 asmin satīdam astīti kāryakāraṇatāpi yā sāpy apekṣāvihīnānāṃ jāḍānāṃ … Causality too, which takes the form 'this being present, this exists', is likewise not…
- 15 na hi svātmaikaniṣṭhānām anusandhānavarjinām sadasattāpade 'py eṣa saptamyarthaḥ … For, in the case of things resting each solely in its own self, lacking any synthesizing…
- 16 ata eva vibhaktyarthaḥ pramātrekasamāśrayaḥ kriyākārakabhāvākhyo yukto bhāvasamanvayaḥ For this very reason, the meaning of the case-inflections — the connected ordering of…
- 17 parasparasvabhāvatve kāryakāraṇayor api ekatvam eva bhede hi naivānyonyasvarūpatā If effect and cause were each the very nature of the other, there would be only oneness;
- 18 ekātmano vibhedaś ca kriyā kālakramānugā tathā syāt kartṛtaivaivaṃ … And the differentiation of the single-natured (subject), which is action following the…
- 19 na ca yuktaṃ jaḍasyaivaṃ bhedābhedavirodhataḥ ābhāsabhedād ekatra cidātmani … And this is not tenable for an insentient thing, because of the contradiction between…
- 20 vāstave 'pi cidekatve na syād ābhāsabhinnayoḥ cikīrṣālakṣaṇaikatvaparāmarśaṃ vinā … Even given the real unity of consciousness, there could be no action of the two factors…
- 21 itthaṃ tathā ghaṭapaṭā-dyābhāsajagadātmanā tiṣṭhāsor evam icchaiva hetutā kartṛtā … Thus, for the (Lord) who desires to abide as the world consisting of the appearances of…