ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 evam antarbahirvṛttiḥ kriyā kālakramānugā mātur eva tadanyonyā-viyukte jñānakarmaṇī Thus action, operating inwardly and outwardly and following the sequence of time, belongs…
- 2 kiṃ tv āntaradaśodrekāt sādākhyaṃ tattvam āditaḥ bahirbhāvaparatve tu … But from the predominance of the inner phase there arises first the principle called…
- 3 īśvaro bahir unmeṣo nimeṣo 'ntaḥ sadāśivaḥ sāmānādhikaraṇyaṃ ca … Īśvara is the outward opening-out, Sadāśiva the inward closing-in;
- 4 idaṃbhāvopapannānāṃ vedyabhūmim upeyuṣām bhāvānāṃ bodhasāratvād yathāvastvavalokanāt Of the entities endowed with 'this'-ness that have reached the level of the knowable —…
- 5 atrāparatvam bhāvānām anātmatvena bhāsanāt paratāhantayācchādāt parāparadaśā hi sā Here the lower status (belongs) to the entities, because they appear as not-self;
- 6 bhedadhīr eva bhāveṣu kartur bodhātmano 'pi yā māyāśakty … The very cognition of difference among entities, (belonging) even to the agent whose…
- 7 tasyaiśvaryasvabhāvasya paśubhāve prakāśikā vidyāśaktiḥ tirodhānakarī māyābhidhā punaḥ The power of knowledge (Vidyā-śakti) is what reveals that sovereign nature within the…
- 8 bhede tv ekarase bhāte 'haṃtayānātmanīkṣite śūnye buddhe śarīre … But when difference, of one uniform savor, appears — when the not-self (the void,…
- 9 yaś ca pramātā śūnyādiḥ prameye vyatirekiṇi mātā sa … And the cognizing subject — such as the void and the rest — who, when the knowable stands…
- 10 trayoviṃśatidhā meyaṃ yat kāryakaraṇātmakam tasyāvibhāgarūpy ekaṃ pradhānaṃ mūlakāraṇam The knowable, which consists of effects and instruments, is twenty-three-fold;
- 11 trayodaśavidhā cātra bāhyāntaḥkaraṇāvalī kāryavargaś ca daśadhā sthūlasūkṣmatvabhedataḥ And among these, the series of outer and inner instruments is thirteen-fold, and the…