Verses on the Recognition of the Lord · Chapter 8

Verses on the Recognition of the Lord — Chapter 8

ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका

Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā


Chapter 8 11 verses

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  1. 1 tātkālikākṣasāmakṣyasāpekṣāḥ kevalaṃ kva cit ābhāsā anyathānyatra tv andhāndhatamasādiṣu The appearances are dependent on the sense-faculty's contemporaneous proximity (to the…
  2. 2 viśeṣo 'rthāvabhāsasya sattāyāṃ na punaḥ kva cit vikalpeṣu … There may be a distinction in the appearance of the object, but never any distinction in…
  3. 3 sukhādiṣu ca saukhyādihetuṣv api ca vastuṣu avabhāsasya sadbhāve … And with respect to pleasures and the like, to the causes of pleasure and the like, and…
  4. 4 gāḍham ullikhyamāne tu vikalpena sukhādike tathā sthitis tathaiva … But when a pleasure and the like is being vividly represented by a conceptual…
  5. 5 bhāvābhāvāvabhāsānāṃ bāhyatopādhir iṣyate nātmā sattā tatas teṣām āntarāṇāṃ … For the appearances of presence and absence, externality is held to be an adventitious…
  6. 6 āntaratvāt pramātraikye naiṣāṃ bhedanibandhanā arthakriyāpi bāhyatve sā bhinnābhāsabhedataḥ Because they are inner, in the unity of the cognizing subject the causal efficacy of…
  7. 7 cinmayatve 'vabhāsānām anta eva sthitiḥ sadā māyayā bhāsamānānāṃ … Since the appearances are of the nature of consciousness, their abiding is always within…
  8. 8 vikalpe yo 'yam ullekhaḥ so 'pi bāhyaḥ pṛthakprathaḥ … This representation that occurs in a conceptual construction is itself external,…
  9. 9 ullekhasya sukhādeś ca prakāśo bahir ātmanā icchāto bhartur … And the manifestation of the representation and of pleasure and the like, outwardly in…
  10. 10 tadaikyena vinā na syāt saṃvidāṃ lokapaddhatiḥ prakāśaikyāt tad … Without the unity of that (subject) there could be no ordered course of the world among…
  11. 11 sa eva vimṛśattvena niyatena maheśvaraḥ vimarśa eva devasya … He alone, by virtue of his constant reflective awareness, is the Great Lord;