तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
- 1 tatra yāvat idam uktam tat sākṣāt kasyacit apavargāptaye … Now, all that has been said thus far serves, for one person, directly toward the…
- 2 tatra kaḥ adhikārī iti nirūpaṇārthaṃ śaktipāto vicāryate Here, in order to determine who is the qualified candidate, the descent of power…
- 3 tatra kecit āhuḥ jñānābhāvāt ajñānamūlaḥ saṃsāraḥ tadapagame jñānodayāt … Here some say: transmigration is rooted in ignorance, arising from the absence of…
- 4 atha malaparipāke śaktipātaḥ so 'pi kiṃsvarūpaḥ kiṃ ca … Now (if it be said) that śaktipāta occurs upon the ripening of impurity — of what nature…
- 5 svatantraparameśādvayavāde tu upapadyate etat yathāhi parameśvaraḥ svarūpācchādanakrīḍayā paśuḥ … But in the doctrine of the non-duality of the autonomous Supreme Lord this is coherent.
- 6 na ca vācyaṃ kasmāt kasmiṃścid eva puṃsi śaktipāta … Nor should it be objected: why is there śaktipāta in just some particular person?
- 7 sa cāyaṃ śaktipāto navadhā tīvramadhyamandasya utkarṣamādhyasthyanikarṣaiḥ punas traividhyāt … And this śaktipāta is ninefold, since the intense, the middling, and the mild are each…
- 8 bhedadarśana iva anādiśivasannidhau muktaśivānāṃ sṛṣṭilayādikṛtyeṣu mandatīvrāt śaktipātāt sadguruviṣayā … Just as in the dualist view the liberated Śivas, in the presence of the beginningless…
- 9 sadgurus tu samastaitacchāstratattvajñānapūrṇaḥ sākṣāt bhagavadbhairavabhaṭṭāraka eva yogino 'pi … The true guru, full of the knowledge of the truth of all these scriptures, is directly…
- 10 asadgurus tu anyaḥ sarva eva A false guru, on the other hand, is everyone else whatsoever.
- 11 evaṃ yiyāsuḥ guroḥ jñānalakṣaṇāṃ dīkṣāṃ prāpnoti yayā sadya … Thus one who desires to go (to a guru) receives from the guru the initiation…
- 12 abhyāsavato vā tadānīṃ sadya eva prāṇaviyojikāṃ dīkṣāṃ labhate … Or, for one possessed of practice, he then obtains at that very instant the initiation…
- 13 tīvrās tridhā utkṛṣṭamadhyāt śaktipātāt kṛtadīkṣāko 'pi svātmanaḥ śivatāyāṃ … The intense (descent) is threefold.
- 14 nikṛṣṭamadhyāt tu dehāntareṇa bhogaṃ bhuktvā śivatvam eti iti But from the lower-middle (descent), having enjoyed the enjoyment by means of another…
- 15 madhyas tu tridhā bhogotsukatā yadā pradhānabhūtā tadā mandatvaṃ … The middling (descent), however, is threefold.
- 16 tatrāpi tāratamyāt traividhyam ity eṣa mukhyaḥ śaktipātaḥ There too, owing to gradation, there is a threefoldness.
- 17 vaiṣṇavādīnāṃ tu rājānugrahavat na mokṣāntatā iti na iha … But for the Vaiṣṇavas and the rest, like a king's favour, there is no culmination in…
- 18 śivaśaktyadhiṣṭhānaṃ tu sarvatra iti uktam sā paraṃ jyeṣṭhā … It has been said, however, that the governance of Śiva's power is everywhere.
- 19 sa ca daiśiko guruḥ ācāryo dīkṣakaḥ cumbakaḥ sa … And he is the spiritual guide, the guru, the teacher, the initiator, the cumbaka;
- 20 yogī tu phalotsukasya yukto yadi upāyopadeśena avyavahitam eva … The yogin, however, is competent for one eager for a result, if by the teaching of a…
- 21 uttamottamādijñānabhedāpekṣayā teṣu varteta sampūrṇajñānagurutyāge tu prāyaścittam eva He should conduct himself toward them according to the gradation of their knowledge —…
- 22 nanu so 'pi abruvan viparītaṃ vā bruvan kiṃ … But surely — should not even he be forsaken if he does not teach, or teaches wrongly?
- 23 evam anugrahanimittaṃ śaktipāto nirapekṣa eva karmādiniyatyapekṣaṇāt Thus, as the cause of grace, śaktipāta is altogether independent, since it is (only the…
- 24 tirobhāva iti tirobhāvo hi karmādyapekṣagāḍhaduḥkhamohabhāgitvaphalaḥ yathāhi prakāśasvātantryāt prabuddho … As for concealment: concealment has for its fruit, depending on karma and the rest, a…
- 25 tatrāpi icchāvaicitryāt tirobhūto 'pi svayaṃ vā śaktipātena yujyate … There too, owing to the variety of (the Lord's) will, even one who has been subject to…