Verses on the Recognition of the Lord · Chapter 6

Verses on the Recognition of the Lord — Chapter 6

ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका

Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā


Chapter 6 11 verses

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  1. 1 ahaṃpratyavamarśo yaḥ prakāśātmāpi vāgvapuḥ nāsau vikalpaḥ sa hy … The reflective awareness 'I', which has light as its essence although it has the form of…
  2. 2 bhinnayor avabhāso hi syād ghaṭāghaṭayor dvayoḥ prakāśasyeva nānyasya … For (in a determinate ascertainment) there must be an appearing of two distinct things,…
  3. 3 tadatatpratibhābhājā mātraivātadvyapohanāt tanniścayanamukto hi vikalpo ghaṭa ity ayam It is by consciousness alone, partaking of the cognition of 'that' and 'not-that',…
  4. 4 cittattvaṃ māyayā hitvā bhinna evāvabhāti yaḥ dehe buddhāv … He who, having abandoned the principle of consciousness through māyā, appears as merely…
  5. 5 pramātṛtvenāham iti vimarśo 'nyavyapohanāt vikalpa eva sa parapratiyogy … — that reflective awareness '(I am) an I, as a limited cognizing subject', because it…
  6. 6 kādācitkāvabhāse yā pūrvābhāsādiyojanā saṃskārāt kalpanā proktā sāpi bhinnāvabhāsini And the joining of an occasional appearance with a prior appearance and the like, arising…
  7. 7 tad evaṃ vyavahāre 'pi prabhur dehādim āviśan bhāntam … Thus in empirical activity too, the Lord, entering into the body and the rest, by his…
  8. 8 evaṃ smṛtau vikalpe vāpy apohanaparāyaṇe jñāne vāpy antarābhāsaḥ … Thus, whether in memory, or in a conceptual construction devoted to exclusion, or again…
  9. 9 kiṃ tu naisargiko jñāne bahirābhāsanātmani pūrvānubhavarūpas tu sthitaḥ … But in (perceptual) cognition, whose nature is outward manifestation, that (inner…
  10. 10 sa naisargika evāsti vikalpe svairacāriṇi yathābhimatasaṃsthānā-bhāsanād buddhigocare It is innate too in the freely-roaming conceptual construction, whose sphere is the…
  11. 11 ata eva yathābhīṣṭasamullekhāvabhāsanāt jñānakriye sphuṭe eva siddhe sarvasya … For this very reason — from the appearance of representations just as one desires —…