शिवदृष्टि
Śivadṛṣṭi
- 1 athāsmākaṃ jñānaśaktiryā sadāśivarūpatā | vaiyākaraṇasādhūnāṃ paśyantī sā parā … Now, that which for us is the power of knowledge, the Sadāśiva-nature — for the orthodox…
- 2 ityāhuste paraṃ brahma yadanādi tathākṣayam | tadakṣaraṃ śabdarūpaṃ … Thus they declare: it is the supreme Brahman, which is beginningless and imperishable —…
- 3 sa evātmā sarvadehavyāpakatvena vartate | antaḥpaśyadavasthaiva cidrūpatvamarūpakam (They say:) That very (Word) is the Self, abiding by pervading all bodies;
- 4 akṣādivṛttibhirhīnaṃ deśakālādiśūnyakam — devoid of the operations of the senses and the rest, and empty of space, time, and the…
- 5 sarvataḥkramasaṃhāramātramākāravarjitam | brahmatattvaṃ parā kāṣṭhā paramārthastadeva saḥ Being merely the withdrawal of all succession, bereft of shape — that is the…
- 6 āste vijñānarūpatve sa śabdo'rthavivakṣayā | madhyamā kathyate saiva … That Word abides in the state of pure cognition;
- 7 saṃprāptā vaktrakuharaṃ kaṇṭhādisthānabhāgaśaḥ | vaikharī kathyate saiva bahirvāsanayā … Having reached the cavity of the mouth, at the several points of articulation beginning…
- 8 yasmāttairucyate sadbhirevaṃ vastupravṛttaye — because it is thus declared by those worthy ones, (to account) for the operation of…
- 9 vivartate'rthabhāvena prakriyā jagato yataḥ (They hold that) it appears, as a transformation, in the mode of objects — for from it…
- 10 na so'sti pratyayo loke yaḥ śabdānugamādṛte | śabdabrahmaṇi … (They say:) 'There is no cognition in the world that occurs apart from accompaniment by…
- 11 avibhāgā tu paśyantī sarvataḥ saṃhṛtakramā | ityādivākyaracanaistairevaṃ pratipāditam 'But Paśyantī is undivided, with all succession wholly withdrawn' — by such phrasings as…
- 12 ādau tāvadindriyatve sthitā vākkarmasaṃjñite (But our refutation:) First of all, at the outset it (Paśyantī, as 'speech') is…
- 13 indriyatve'pi sāmānye pāṇyāderbrahmatā na kim And if faculty-hood in general (is to be exalted to Brahman), then why is the hand and…
- 14 antaḥ kramo hṛdādeścetprāṇādeḥ kiṃ na satyatā If (you say Paśyantī's) inner succession belongs to the heart and so on, then why is…
- 15 atropāsanayā siddhirdevatāyogiteti cet If it be said, 'Here, through meditative worship of it, there is attainment — union with…
- 16 tasmāddhiraṇyagarbhādiyogasāṃkhyetihāsatām — then (by the same reasoning) the (Word-doctrine would have to grant equal authority to)…
- 17 vihāya śāstraracanā jātucinna virājate | pāṇyādīndriyavannaitadbrahma vāgindriyaṃ bhavet Setting (the Word) aside, no composition of scriptures would ever have any standing;
- 18 athocyate prakiryāsau sāṃkhyādiracitā na sā | tattvonmeṣaprasaraṇe bhavetsaṃbandhabhāginī Now if it be urged: 'This process (of manifestation by the Word) is not that fabricated…
- 19 vimarśānubhavenaiṣā yathā vāk prathamaṃ śritā | lakṣyate bodharūpeṇa … (We answer:) just as this Speech, when first resorted to, is discerned through the…
- 20 vartamānasamārūḍhā kriyā paśyantyudāhṛtā (But for them) action established upon the present moment is what is declared to be…
- 21 yadyābhāsānbahirbhūtāṃstatsato'pyasato'pi vā If (Paśyantī manifests) the external appearances — then are these (manifested) as…
- 22 gṛhṇātyathāvidyayā vā sāpyasyāḥ kathamāsthitā Or does it grasp them through nescience (avidyā)?
- 23 satyā hyasāvasatyā vā satyatve darśanakṣatiḥ | asatyayāpi satyasya … Is this (nescience) real or unreal?
- 24 bahirbhāvānvisṛjyādau paścātpaśyati sātha kim Does it first emit the external entities and only afterward see them?
- 25 jñātānsṛjatyasau tānvā neti jñāteṣvadarśanam Does it emit them as already known — or not?
- 26 tāni dṛṣṭvānusṛjati sṛṣṭvā vānuprapaśyati Does it emit them after seeing them — or see them after emitting them?
- 27 paśyantyāḥ satyarūpāyāstatsatyatve na darśanam | asatye satyadṛṣṭyaiva paśyantyāṃ … Of the (supposedly) real-natured Paśyantī: if those objects are real, there is no (fresh)…
- 28 avidyāsyāḥ svadharmaḥ kiṃ paradharmo'thavā bhavet Is this nescience a property of (Paśyantī) herself, or could it be a property of…
- 29 svadharmatve'syā mālinyaṃ paradharme'pi kasya sā | parasya śāstrāniṣṭasya … If it is her own property, then there is impurity in her;
- 30 tatvānyatvairavācyā vā yadyavidyābhidhīyate Or if this nescience is declared to be indescribable in terms of either identity with or…
- 31 paśyantyā lakṣitāsau vā navā yadi na lakṣitā | … Is that (nescience) discerned by Paśyantī or not?
- 32 avācyatvena bhavatāṃ tasyā rūpaṃ gatam | alakṣitasvarūpāyā avidyātvaṃ … By calling it indescribable, for you its very nature is lost;
- 33 nacānumānamiṣṭaṃ te'pyavasthetyādidūṣaṇāt Nor is inference (a valid means here) admitted by you — because of your own objections,…
- 34 satyā vā syādasatyā vā na madhyāyāḥ samanvayaḥ | … It must be either real or unreal;
- 35 satyaiva yadi vidyānāmabhāvastarhi śūnyatā | śūnyayā bādhyate citraṃ … If knowledge is truly real, yet (you make it amount to) a sheer absence, then it is…
- 36 sindhuśabdādivacchabdo na paśyantyādito bhavet (If the Word were equivocal,) like the term 'sindhu' (meaning both river and ocean) and…
- 37 atha madhyamayā bāhyā bhāvā grāhyā hyavidyayā | tasyā … Now if (you say) external entities are to be grasped by Madhyamā through nescience — then…
- 38 tatrāpi madhyamā kasya kāryaṃ paśyantyavasthayā | sā janyā … And there too: of what is Madhyamā the product?
- 39 nahi tasyā nimittaṃ vā kāraṇaṃ samavāyi vā | … For (Paśyantī) has neither an efficient cause nor an inherent material cause (for…
- 40 tathāpyavidyayā yogaḥ paśyantyātmānameva cet | andhamūkaṃ jagadbāhye sarvameva … And even so, (if) Paśyantī's conjunction through nescience is only with herself, then the…
- 41 paśyantī kiṃ śarīre'ntarbahiḥ sarvatra vā sthitā Is Paśyantī situated inside the body, or outside, or everywhere?
- 42 prasarennādabindvādisāpekṣā cedanīśvarī If it streams forth (only) in dependence on resonance, point, and the rest, then it is…
- 43 pratidehaṃ pṛthakkiṃ sā sarvatraikyena vā sthitā | nānātvaṃ … Is it situated separately in each body, or as one everywhere?
- 44 avibhāgetyādikena lakṣaṇena sulakṣitā (You hold her) well-defined by such a defining mark as 'undivided' and the like —
- 45 avibhāgā kathaṃ sā syādyataḥ paśyantyasau smṛtā — but how could she be 'undivided,' since she is precisely designated 'Paśyantī,' the…
- 46 atathā yadi paśyantī mithyā paśyantyudāhṛtā And if she does not actually see, then 'Paśyantī' — 'the Seeing one' — is a name falsely…
- 47 bhaviṣyantaṃ vartamānaṃ kathaṃ paśyantyanāgatam How does she, (supposedly) seeing (only) the present, (also) see the future, the…
- 48 atha sādhāraṇaṃ jñānaṃ tādṛkkiṃcana paśyati Now if (you say) she sees some such general, undifferentiated cognition —
- 49 tathāpi tadvibhedana bhedatā tadabhedataḥ | na kiṃcana gṛhītaṃ … — even so, through differentiating it there is differentiation;
- 50 saṃhṛtaḥ krama ityasyāṃ saṃhartā jāyate paraḥ | yayā … If 'succession is withdrawn' in her, then there arises a further withdrawer (distinct…
- 51 ātmanaḥ sakramatvaṃ syādanyatrāparasaṃgamaḥ | kiṃ pūrvaṃ sakramābhūtsā rūpadvitvaṃ … (If within herself,) she herself would possess succession;
- 52 athātmanā sā svātmānaṃ paśyantī nirvibhāgaśaḥ | bhāge karaṇarūpatvātpāratantryaṃ … Now if she, seeing her own self by her own self without any division — (then) in (her)…
- 53 ātmānamātmanā hanti devadatto yathā yathā | bhaviṣyatyatra tatrāsya … Just as when Devadatta strikes himself with himself, here and there a differentiation…
- 54 hastādeḥ karaṇatvaṃ hi mastakādeśca karmatā | kartā manaḥ … Indeed, the hand and so on play the role of instrument, the head and so on the role of…
- 55 paśyantyā darśanaṃ dṛṣṭe na ca vā hyupapadyate Whether (only) when an object is seen, or even (when nothing is seen) — Paśyantī's…
- 56 paśyantaṃ sā kimātmānaṃ paśyantī jaḍameva vā | jaḍe … Does she, seeing, see herself as a seer, or as merely insentient?
- 57 kiṃñcitpaśyati vā sūkṣmaṃ tadasmaddarśanānvayaḥ | karmatve pāratantryaṃ syāttasyā … Or (if you say) she sees something subtle — that accords with our own doctrine;
- 58 sphoṭa eva hi paśyantī tadanyā vā dvayaṃ bhavet … Is Paśyantī the sphoṭa (the indivisible word-essence) itself, or other than it?
- 59 āptānāptavicāro vā sarvathaiva nivartate Moreover, (on your view) the whole inquiry into reliable versus unreliable authority…
- 60 sphoṭasyāsatyarūpairhi padādyairvyaṅgyatā katham | paśyantyāḥ satyarūpāyā asatyairvyaṅgyatā na … How can the sphoṭa be manifested by unreal-natured (means) such as words and the rest?
- 61 paśyantī vā pramāṇena kenāsau pratipādyate And by which means of valid knowledge (pramāṇa) is this Paśyantī to be established at all?
- 62 bhavadbhireva nāptasyānanubhūtārthavaktṛtā By your own (admission), a reliable authority cannot be one who speaks of a matter he has…
- 63 atha svānubhavenaiva paśyantīṃ paśya yuktitaḥ | evaṃ tarhyaparasyāsau … Now if (you say) 'behold Paśyantī by your own experience, through reasoning!
- 64 pratibhā kathitā yā vā sānumānaṃ na tacca te Or that 'intuitive flash' (pratibhā) which (you) speak of — that is not inference, and…
- 65 svātmanātmānamatha cetpaśyantī sā bhaviṣyati Now if (you say) it is by seeing herself through her own self that she will be 'Paśyantī'…
- 66 tadānīṃ pratipādyasya kimāyātaṃ svavīkṣaṇāt | vaktavyameva tasyāpi paśyantīṃ … — then at that point, what does the one to whom she is to be made known gain from her…
- 67 asatyaḥ pratipādyo'sminnasatyaḥ pratipādakaḥ On this (view) the one to be instructed is unreal, and the instructor too is unreal.
- 68 yena sā vā pramāṇena sthāpyate tasya satyatā And whatever means of valid knowledge she is established by — (you must first guarantee)…
- 69 sādhuśabdasamuccārātkasya svargādiyogitā (And you claim) that from the correct pronunciation of a grammatically proper word comes…
- 70 paśyantyāścedavidyātvaṃ tadbhogaunmukhyayogataḥ | madhyamāderjaḍāyāḥ kiṃ bhogena śabalātmanā If (you say) Paśyantī's status as nescience comes by her being oriented toward…
- 71 tasmādasādhuḥ sādhuḥ syācchabdavidyāphalapradaḥ | evaṃ vyākaraṇasyāpi samuccheda upaiti … Therefore (on your incoherent view) an improper word might (as well) be the 'proper'…
- 72 bhavatāmaprastutena na kevalamihoditam What has been said here against you is not merely (an objection) by something irrelevant…
- 73 svānubhūtirvartamānakālenāsya vibhāvyate (You hold that) its self-experience is conceived as bound to the present time (alone) —
- 74 anantasyānubhūtiḥ kā paricchedaṃ vinātmanaḥ — but what experience can there be of the infinite Self without (some) delimitation…
- 75 anante'vagamaḥ kutra tejastve śāntatā katham | asarvagapramāṇaṃ hi … In the infinite, where (could) apprehension (find a foothold)?
- 76 atraiva śabdanityatvavādino rūḍhatāṃ gatāḥ | anādinātha tenaiva śabdatattvena … Just here the proponents of the eternality of the Word have become entrenched;
- 77 āptānāptabhāṣitatve viśeṣo nāsti śabdagaḥ | nityatve śabdatattvasya vyaṅgyatvaṃ … If (the Word is) eternal, there can be no distinction, with respect to the Word itself,…
- 78 bhavatpakṣe na kiṃ nyāya eṣa āyāti cecchive If you object, 'Does this very reasoning not apply equally to (your own) Śiva?
- 79 tathā rūpānurūpatvātprasūteḥ śivarūpataḥ | satyatvācca na tulyatvamato'smātpraviramyatām (We answer:) No — because the (manifest) form conforms to (his) nature, because the…
- 80 atha nāmnaiva paśyantī sphuṭameva jaḍā tataḥ | jñānaśaktiḥ … Further, by her very name 'Paśyantī' she is quite evidently insentient;
- 81 śabdasya viṣayākhyasya miśratvenendriyasya tu | sarvadarśanavijñānaśūnyatā padavedinām Since the Word, called an object, is mixed up with the sense-organ (of speech), the mere…
- 82 yasmādanādinidhanaṃ śabdatattvaṃ parā hi vāk | paśyantyā varṇyamānatve … Since (you hold) the beginningless and endless Word-principle to be the supreme Speech —…
- 83 paśyantī hi kriyā tasyā bhāgau pūrvāparau sthitau | … Indeed Paśyantī (rightly understood) is action;
- 84 yathā kartuḥ kulālāderghaṭaḥ kārya itīdṛśaḥ | vimarśa icchārūpeṇa … Just as for an agent such as a potter there is the reflective awareness 'the pot is to be…
- 85 sā sthitā pūrvatastasyā icchāyāḥ prasaraḥ katham | yāvanna … She stands as the prior (phase);
- 86 tasyā api sāmarasye vyavasthāvān sthitaḥ śivaḥ | evaṃ … And even within her equipoised unison, Śiva abides possessed of his own settled order;
- 87 sthitā sā na punaḥ satyā vāco vāyugamātmanaḥ | … She (Paśyantī) is (thus) established, but not as the ultimate reality;
- 88 yathā sarvapadārthānāṃ bhagavacchivarūpatā | tadvadvāgindriyasyāpi na punaḥ sā … Just as all entities have the nature of the Blessed Śiva, so too does the speech-faculty…
- 89 kaṇṭhādau vadane vāyau vyāpāro vāgrutasya sā | karaṇaṃ, … The operation in the throat, the mouth, and the breath, of what is heard as speech — that…
- 90 tasyāpi kathitā pañcatattvadīkṣāvidhau kvacit | na vāca iṣyate … Its (Śiva-nature) too is taught somewhere in the rite of initiation by the five…