शिवदृष्टि
Śivadṛṣṭi
- 1 atha śakteḥ parāvasthā yairbhaktyā parigīyate | yuktyā prakāśito … Now, that supreme state of Power which is devoutly celebrated by some — (in truth) it is…
- 2 na śivaḥ śaktirahito na śaktirvyatirekiṇī Śiva is never devoid of Power, nor is Power separate (from Śiva).
- 3 śivaḥ śaktastathā bhāvānicchayā kartumīhate | śaktiśaktimatorbhedaḥ śaive jātu … Śiva, being empowered, thus intends by his will to create the existing things;
- 4 sāmarthyaṃ yadi kalpyeta tannāmānantyameva vā If (Śiva's) capacity were posited as something (distinct from him), then indeed an…
- 5 śaktimāneva śaktiḥ syācchivavatkaraṇārthataḥ The Power-possessor himself would be (his own) Power — just as (he is) Śiva — by reason…
- 6 muñcato'pi nijāṃ śaktiṃ svātantrye jñānamāpatet Even when he releases his own Power, in his autonomy (self-sovereignty) knowledge (of it)…
- 7 mantrastambhanatāyāṃ hi nāsau vahnistadocyate (Objection by analogy:) Indeed, when fire is rendered powerless to burn by a mantra, it…
- 8 yadyauṣṇyāvyatirekatve dṛṣṭānto dāhakāśrayāt (We answer:) the example (in fact supports us) — given that heat is inseparable (from…
- 9 2śaivaiḥ sadbhirvāca eva paśyantyādikrame sthitāḥ | kalpitāstairaśaivatvamātmanaḥ pratipāditam By certain worthy Śaivas, (levels) of speech alone are posited as established in the…
- 10 śaive vāca indriyatvamatha nādādinoditā | tadabhyāse phalāvāptiḥ sūkṣmamantrasvarūpatā In the Śaiva (scripture) speech is (assigned) the status of a sense-faculty;
- 11 kathitā kālapādādau nādākhyaṃ yatparaṃ tviti | parāparādibhedaśca tatraiva … It is spoken of in the Kālapāda and elsewhere — 'that supreme which is called resonance…
- 12 naitanna vācaḥ kathitaṃ patiśabdasya varṇitam This is not so: what is described (as supreme there) is not (predicated) of speech, but…
- 13 tathā cāha kheṭapālaḥ śabdarāśerviśeṣatām And accordingly Kheṭapāla speaks of the special (status) of the totality of phonemic…
- 14 svāyambhuvasya ṭīkāyāṃ bāḍhamityādinā guruḥ | tathā mataṅgaṭīkāyāṃ vyākhyāniguruṇoditam In his commentary on the Svāyambhuva, the master (states it) with words such as…
- 15 tatra vā tadupāyatvātparatvenopacāritā Or there (if speech is called 'supreme,' it is only) figuratively designated as 'supreme'…
- 16 tadupāyātparatvaṃ ceddīpāderapyupāyatā If supremacy (is granted) merely from being a means to that, then a lamp and the rest are…
- 17 tasmātsamagrākāreṣu sarvāsu pratipattiṣu | vijñeyaṃ śivarūpatvaṃ svaśaktyāveśanātmakam Therefore, in all (their) complete forms, in all cognitions whatsoever, the nature of…
- 18 piṇḍe vā kaṭikāyāṃ vā kiṃ suvarṇatvamiṣyate Whether in a lump or in a bar, is goldness not (equally) acknowledged?
- 19 na bhūṣaṇe kuḍalādau yathā tatra svaśaktitaḥ | rūpakatvaṃ … (Goldness is) not (present only) in an ornament such as an earring;
- 20 tathecchayā samāviṣṭastathā śaktitrayeṇa ca | tathā tathā sthito … So, pervaded by will and by the triad of powers, (Śiva) abides in this way and that as…
- 21 ityukte'tra samākṣepaḥ pakṣasyāsya vidhīyate | ādau tāvadvikāritvaṃ śivatattvasya … When this has been said, an objection against this position is raised here: first of all,…
- 22 nānāvikārarūpeṇa jaḍataivamavasthitā | tathā sāvayavatvaṃ ca parādhīnatvameva ca (Objection continues:) Thus, in the form of manifold modifications, insentience would…
- 23 nyūnatvādi vināśitvaṃ tathollaṅghananiṣkṛtiḥ — deficiency and so forth, perishability, and likewise transgression and the (need for)…
- 24 yatropari na hastādi neyamīśvarasaṃnidhau | tatra pādavihārādeḥ sphuṭameva … (Objection:) Where one must not (raise) the hand and so on above, this (impropriety…
- 25 evaṃ sati samagrasya vyavahārasya bhaṅgitā | tathaivaṃ saṃpravṛttau … (Objection:) This being so, the whole of conventional transaction collapses;
- 26 nānāvādaiḥ svasiddhāntaiḥ sākamatra virodhitā | sarvabhāvaśivatvena nāstitā bandhamokṣayoḥ (Objection:) Here (your view) is in conflict with the various doctrines and with one's…
- 27 tadabhāvāddevaguruśāstrocchedo bhavettarām | nirarthakatvaṃ śāstrasya karaṇe tannirūpaṇe (Objection:) And from the absence of these (bondage and liberation), the abolition of…
- 28 sarveṣāmeva muktatve sthite kasyopadeśyatā | dharmādharmau nasaṃ baddhau … (Objection:) If all alike are (already) liberated, then who is there to be instructed?
- 29 tataśca śivadharmādervedāderakṛtārthatā | nimittasamavāyayādikāraṇeṣu samānatā (Objection:) And from that, the Śivadharma scriptures, the Veda, and the rest become…
- 30 pṛthivyādikalpanayā kalpanāvān śivo bhavet | śivatattve sānubhave paśyantītulyatā … (Objection:) By being figured as earth and the rest, Śiva would be subject to (false)…
- 31 icchāvatkāryaniṣpattyā punaricchāntarodgame | śivasya heturvaktavyo yadarthaṃ sā navodgatā (Objection:) Since he is possessed of will, when one effect is accomplished and then a…
- 32 viśvasyāsatyarūpatvaṃ yairvākyairvarṇitaṃ kvacit | śivoktaistairvirodhaḥ syātsarvasatyatvavādinaḥ (Objection:) The unreality of the universe is somewhere described by statements spoken by…
- 33 tadātmano hi sthūlasya sūkṣmasyātha vikāritā (Objection:) For him whose very self is that (universe), whether gross or subtle,…
- 34 kṣīramāyāprakṛtivadyāvataścaiva yāvatī | śivasya tādṛgātmamutpadyetātra yogivat (Objection answered, our position:) Like milk, Māyā, or prakṛti (transforming) — to…
- 35 icchayā sarvabhāvatvamanekātmatvameva ca | nātra svātmavikāreṇa janayedbhāvamaṇḍalam By will (he assumes) the being of all entities and even a multiplicity of selfhood;
- 36 yathā na yogino'stīha nānāsainyaśarīrakaiḥ Just as for a yogin (who conjures an army) there is here no (real) division of himself by…
- 37 vibhāgastadvadīśasya madhyotkṛṣṭanikṛṣṭakaiḥ | bhāvairnāsti vibhedatvamathavāmbudhivīcivat — just so, for the Lord there is no real division through the middling, superior, and…
- 38 tatra vicitvamāpannaṃ na jalaṃ jalamucyate | na ca … There the water that has entered into the wave-state is not (then) called 'water' (as…
- 39 niścalatve'pi hi jalaṃ vīcitve jalameva tat | vīcibhistadviśiṣṭaṃ … Indeed, in stillness it is water, and in the wave-state too that is just water;
- 40 ata eva parecchāto na jaḍatvamavasthitam | pṛthivyāditattvagaṇe jaḍatvaṃ … For this very reason, by the will of the Supreme no (true) insentience obtains;
- 41 na tathā jaḍatā kvāpi tathāgre suvicāritaiḥ | varṇayiṣyāma … — (in fact) there is no real insentience anywhere;
- 42 svecchāto bhāvarūpatve parādhīnā kutaḥ sthitiḥ When (Śiva) takes the form of existing things by his own will, whence could there be any…
- 43 kṣīravadyadi vocyeta parādhīnaṃ jaḍaṃ bhavet | etayaiva diśā … And if it were objected, 'like milk (Śiva would then be) dependent on another and…
- 44 abhagne svasya rūpatve śuddhanyūnādikaṃ kutaḥ | patadgrahādike hemni … When one's own nature is unbroken, whence (could there be) purity, deficiency, and the…
- 45 sthitameva na hemno'sya kācidasti vibheditā | caṇḍālasadmago vahnirna … The goldness remains the very same;
- 46 tathaiva syādathocyeta vahneḥ saṃskāracodanā | śāstreṣu varṇitā kasmātkāryārthaṃ … Just so it would be (with all things).
- 47 na svarūpavibhāgo'tra tathā tasya vyavasthiteḥ | saṃjñākaraṇamātraṃ tadvyavahārāya … Here there is no division of essential nature, since its (Śiva's) condition remains fixed;
- 48 vyavahāro'pyavidyā no tathātveneśvarasthitiḥ | tenaiva vā tathā kḷptastathā … For us, even conventional transaction is not (a product of) nescience;
- 49 hemapiṇḍe hemataiva syāccenna mukuṭādike If (you say) goldness exists (only) in a lump of gold, not in a crown and the like (—…
- 50 satkṛtau tadvinirṇeyaṃ yā collaṅghanacodanā (So too) in the rites of honoring (the deity), that (same principle) is to be determined…
- 51 evaṃ pravartane tasya na nimittasamudgamaḥ Thus, in his activity (of creation) there is no arising of any (external) efficient cause.
- 52 yadi svarūpavibhraṃśācchāktarūpādikalpanā | tadvaktavyaṃ nimittatvaṃ kimarthaṃ rūpamūjjhati If the assumption of the Śākta form and so on (came) from a lapse of his essential…
- 53 śaktitrayasvarūpatvaṃ sarvaṃ yatrāstyavasthitam (But our view:) where everything exists established as the nature of the triad of powers…
- 54 nimittaṃ kalpyate tatra nimittaṃ tatra kalpyatām | atathātve … Where a causal occasion (genuinely) needs to be posited, there let it be posited — namely…
- 55 purā śāntasvarūpatvaṃ paścāttādṛgavasthitiḥ | śānte śivatvaṃ sthūle'pi śivatvaṃ … (Objection:) Formerly (he was) of tranquil essence, afterward (in) such an (active)…
- 56 tatra kā śāntatā brūhi śakteḥ kiṃ vastutā na … (We answer:) Tell me, what (special) tranquillity is there (in the supposedly quiescent…
- 57 aṅgārarūpe kiṃ vahnau vahnitā na kriyātmake | jvālādike'tha … Is there fire-ness in fire that has the form of (smouldering) charcoal, but not when it…
- 58 niricchā na ca śakyeta vaktumevaṃ kadācana | asti … Nor could it ever be said that (that state) is devoid of will;
- 59 naiṣā kriyā bhavati kiṃ niricche kiṃ kriyā bhavet … — is this not (already) action?
- 60 atha citratvamatrāsti bhāvapuñje na tacchive | śivasya tatsvarūpatvaṃ … (Objection:) Now this variegation exists in the aggregate of entities, not in Śiva.
- 61 apekṣya bhāvavaicitryaṃ tasya tebhyo vicitratā | sarvaṃ śivātmakaṃ … In dependence on the diversity of entities, his variegation (derives) from them;
- 62 jalāharaṇaśaktaśca ghaṭo yadi na bhaṇyate | ghaṭaḥ kevala … And if a pot, capable of fetching water, is not (on that account) called just 'a pot' by…
- 63 nānāvādairno virodhaḥ kathanīyamihāgrataḥ | uktaṃ vā kālapādādāvāgopālāṅganādinā There is no conflict with the various doctrines — this is to be explained further on;
- 64 tadaikyaṃ kheṭapālo'pi prāha yā kācana sthitā | śaktiḥ … Kheṭapāla too proclaims that oneness: whatever power abides in the entire class of…
- 65 eko rudra itītyādi śrūtāvuktaṃ tathā paraḥ 'Rudra is one' and so forth is declared in the Veda, and likewise elsewhere.
- 66 puruṣaḥ sarva evedamitihāsādiṣūditam | maheśasyāṣṭamūrtitvaṃ yāvatpārthivamūḍhatā 'This Person is all this' — so it is stated in the epics and elsewhere;
- 67 sā'rodīditi vede'sti nārthavādo nirarthakaḥ | vidhyaṅgatvena cetsattā nāsatyasyāṅgatā … 'He wept' (and the like) occurs in the Veda;
- 68 bandhamokṣau na bhidyete sarvatraiva śivatvataḥ (Objection restated:) Bondage and liberation are not (then) distinguished, because of…
- 69 vijñānamīdṛksarvasya kasmānna syādvimohitā | saivaiṣā sā ca saṃsāro … (We answer:) Why should not everyone have such cognition (of universal Śiva-hood)?
- 70 vibhinnaśivapakṣe tu satye dārḍhyaṃ paratra no | pratītimātramevātra … But on the view (of dualists) that Śiva is separate (from the world), if (Śiva alone) is…
- 71 nāsatye satyabuddhitvakhaṇḍanātrāsti kācana | kathanaṃ sarvasāmyāya vivādihananāya ca (On our view) there is no refuting of a 'cognition of reality' as applied to the unreal…
- 72 tadātmatve nāsti bandhastadabhāvānna mokṣaṇam (Objection:) When (the world) has Śiva as its very self, there is no bondage;
- 73 kimarthaṃ guruśāstrādi cettathā tadavasthiteḥ | devasya śāstrādbodhena kiṃ … (Objection:) If (you ask) 'for what purpose then are teacher, scripture, and the rest?
- 74 sa evetthaṃ svecchayāste tatkartṛtvena bodhyataḥ (We answer:) He himself abides in this manner by his own will — as the agent of that…
- 75 sa eva buddharūpatve tathā bhavati tatkṣaṇam | sa … He himself, in the form of the awakened, thus becomes (awakened) at that very instant;
- 76 vāditvaprativāditve kasmāccettasya tatsthite If (you ask) 'why then the roles of proponent and opponent (in debate)?
- 77 vyavahārāya vā sarvaṃ vyavahāro na vastugaḥ | svarūpaṃ … Or (this multiplicity exists) for the sake of (everyday) transaction;
- 78 sarvamekena rūpeṇa yadvicāryaṃ tathāgrataḥ How everything is (to be understood) under a single form is to be examined accordingly,…
- 79 dharmādharmaiśca saṃbandhastathā tacchivasaṃsthiteḥ | tatphalāphalayogena yuktatā tasya tatsthiteḥ The connection with merits and demerits likewise (holds) because of that abiding of Śiva…
- 80 nimittasamavāyayādivaicitryaṃ tadvicitratā | kāraṇasyaikarūpatve na doṣastritayātmatā The diversity of (causes) — efficient, inherent, and so on — is his own diversity;
- 81 samavāyī tadicchaiva tadyogaḥ sahakāraṇamm The inherent cause is his very will;
- 82 na pṛthivyādike tasmin kalpanā saṃpravartate (Therefore) no (false) imagining comes into play with regard to that (Śiva manifesting)…
- 83 tathātvenaiva kḷptatvāttadetatkalpanā bhavet | tadeva tatkalpitaṃ kiṃ satye … Because it is fashioned precisely as being so, this (manifestation) would (only on the…
- 84 kaṭake'sti suvarṇatvaṃ kuṇḍale kalpanāsti kim | citravahnāvaśokādau kalpanā … In a bracelet there is goldness;
- 85 śivatattve sānubhave paśyantyā na samānatā (Even though) the Śiva-principle is endowed with experience, there is no parity with…
- 86 satyāni svātmarūpāṇi paśyato na samānatā For him who sees (the world's contents) as real and as his own self, there is no parity…
- 87 paśyantyātho śivāvasthā kriyāphalasamāptitaḥ | kriyāyā vātha prārambhe kalpanīyā … (Objection:) Now, the Śiva-state (of pure quiescence must be posited) by 'seeing' —…
- 88 na ca vāstyantarāle'tra sā daśā yāhi kevalā (We answer:) But there is here no such state in the interval — none, that is, that is (a…
- 89 prasarpatyaparecchaiva punaranyā tathāvidhā Another will indeed streams forth, and then yet another of the same kind (so there is no…
- 90 yatrātmānubhavāniṣṭhā tatrecchā ca na kiṃ bhavet And where (he is) reposing in the experience of his own Self — would not will too be…
- 91 upalāderjaḍatve'pi śivatvaṃ te kathaṃ sthitam (Objection:) Given the insentience even of a stone and the like, how can its being Śiva…
- 92 saphalāyāṃ samāptāyāṃ kriyāyāṃ samanantaram When a fruit-bearing action is completed, immediately afterward —
- 93 kriyāntarecchāsaṃbhūtau tannimittamanantatā | yato'sti śivaśaktīnāṃ tāśca nityamavasthitāḥ — at the arising of the will for a further action, (there is) an endlessness occasioned…
- 94 īśvarasya svatantrasya kenecchā vā vikalpyate And by what (external cause) could the will of the autonomous Lord be construed (as…
- 95 viśvatucchatvavākyānāṃ vairāgyādyarthavādinām (As for) those statements declaring the universe worthless — they serve as eulogistic…
- 96 ekasminneva dehe tu vibhedātparamāṇugāt But in one and the same body, because of differentiation extending down to the atom (a…
- 97 ekādhiṣṭhānato vāpi teṣāmapi na dūṣaṇam — or even (granting that), from there being a single substrate (Śiva) underlying them,…
- 98 tāvadekacitsvarūpaśivaprasaraṇena vā — or rather, (it is all unified) by the streaming-forth of Śiva, whose nature is the one…
- 99 pātañjalādīśvareṇa na sāmyamavibhedataḥ | iha tadvanna vijñeyaṃ tasmātsarvaṃ … There is no parity with the God of the Patañjala (Yoga) and other systems, because of…