Verses on the Recognition of the Lord · Chapter 9

Verses on the Recognition of the Lord — Chapter 9

ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका

Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā


Chapter 9 8 verses

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  1. 1 ata eva yad apy uktaṃ kriyā naikasya sakramā … For this very reason, whatever was said (by the opponent) — that 'action, being…
  2. 2 sakramatvaṃ ca laukikyāḥ kriyāyāḥ kālaśaktitaḥ ghaṭate na tu … Sequentiality holds of worldly action through the power of time, but not of the eternal…
  3. 3 kālaḥ sūryādisaṃcāras tattatpuṣpādijanma vā śītoṣṇe vātha tallakṣyaḥ krama … Time is the course of the sun and the like, or the blossoming of this and that flower and…
  4. 4 kramo bhedāśrayo bhedo 'py ābhāsasadasattvataḥ ābhāsasadasattve tu citrābhāsakṛtaḥ … Sequence rests upon difference, and difference, moreover, arises from the presence and…
  5. 5 mūrtivaicitryato deśakramam ābhāsayaty asau kriyāvaicitryanirbhāsāt kālakramam apīśvaraḥ From the variety of forms he manifests spatial sequence;
  6. 6 sarvatrābhāsabhedo 'pi bhavet kālakramākaraḥ vicchinnabhāsaḥ śūnyāder mātur bhātasya … Difference of appearance everywhere could be the source of temporal sequence — (it…
  7. 7 deśakramo 'pi bhāveṣu bhāti mātur mitātmanaḥ svātmeva svātmanā … Spatial sequence too appears among the entities for the cognizing subject whose nature is…
  8. 8 kiṃ tu nirmāṇaśaktiḥ sāpy evaṃ viduṣa īśituḥ tathā … But that power of creation, too, belongs to the all-knowing sovereign Lord in such wise…