तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
- 1 tatra yadā vikalpaṃ krameṇa saṃskurute samanantaroktasvarūpapraveśāya tadā bhāvanākramasya … Here, when one refines the conceptual construct in due sequence in order to enter into…
- 2 tathā hi vikalpabalāt eva jantavo baddham ātmānam abhimanyante … For it is precisely through the force of conceptual construction that beings imagine the…
- 3 sa ca evaṃrūpaḥ samastebhyaḥ paricchinnasvabhāvebhyaḥ śivāntebhyaḥ tattvebhyo yat … And that [highest reality], being of such a kind, is what has risen beyond all the…
- 4 sa ca ayaṃ māyāndhānāṃ na utpadyate sattarkādīnām abhāvāt And this [recognition] does not arise in those blinded by māyā, owing to the absence of…
- 5 vaiṣṇavādyā hi tāvanmātra eva āgame rāgatattvena niyamitā iti … For the Vaiṣṇavas and the rest are bound by the principle of attachment within a…
- 6 yathoktaṃ pārameśvare vaiṣṇavādyāḥ samastās te vidyārāgeṇa rañjitāḥ As has been said in the Pārameśvara: "The Vaiṣṇavas and all the rest are colored by…
- 7 na vindanti paraṃ tattvaṃ sarvajñajñānavarjitāḥ iti being devoid of the knowledge of the Omniscient One, they do not attain the supreme…
- 8 tasmāt śāmbhavadṛḍḥaśaktipātāviddhā eva sadāgamādikrameṇa vikalpaṃ saṃskṛtya paraṃ svarūpaṃ … Therefore it is precisely those pierced by the intense Śāmbhava descent of grace who,…
- 9 nanu itthaṃ paraṃ tattvaṃ vikalpyarūpaṃ syāt maivam vikalpasya … But surely, in this way the supreme reality would become an object of conceptualization?
- 10 tatra atidṛḍhaśaktipātāviddhasya svayam eva sāṃsiddhikatayā sattarka udeti yo … Among these, in one pierced by an exceedingly intense descent of grace, sound reasoning…
- 11 anyasya āgamakrameṇa ityādi savistaraṃ śaktipātaprakāśane vakṣyāmaḥ As for another — "by the sequence of scripture," and so forth — we shall explain this at…
- 12 kiṃ tu guror āgamanirūpaṇe vyāpāraḥ āgamasya ca niḥśaṅkasajātīyatatprabandhaprasavanibandhanasamucitavikalpodaye … Rather, the guru's role lies in elucidating scripture, and scripture's role lies in…
- 13 na ca atra sattarkāt śuddhavidyāprakāśarūpāt ṛte anyat yogāṅgaṃ … And here, apart from sound reasoning — which has the form of the radiance of pure wisdom…
- 14 pratyāhāro 'pi karaṇabhūmim eva sātiśayāṃ kuryāt dhyānadhāraṇāsamādhayo 'pi … Even withdrawal of the senses (pratyāhāra) would only render the domain of the…
- 15 abhyāsaś ca pare tattve śivātmani svasvabhāve na sambhavaty … And repeated practice is simply not possible with respect to the supreme reality, whose…
- 16 saṃvidrūḍhasya prāṇabuddhidehaniṣṭhīkaraṇarūpo hi abhyāsaḥ bhārodvahanaśāstrārthabodhanṛttābhyāsavat saṃvidrūpe tu na … For one established in consciousness, practice consists in fixing something in the…
- 17 kiṃ tarkeṇāpi iti cet uktam atra dvaitādhivāsanirāsaprakāra eva … If one objects, "Then what use is even reasoning?
- 18 laukike 'pi vā abhyāse cidātmatvena sarvarūpasya tasya tasya … Or rather, even in ordinary practice — since everything, having consciousness as its…
- 19 paratattve tu na kiñcit apāsyam iti uktam But with respect to the supreme reality, it has been said that there is nothing to be set…
- 20 dvaitādhivāso 'pi nāma na kaścana pṛthak vastubhūtaḥ api … Even the residual sense of duality is not some separately existing real thing;
- 21 ayaṃ paramārthaḥ svarūpaṃ prakāśamānam akhyātirūpatvaṃ svayaṃ svātantryāt gṛhītaṃ … This is the ultimate reality: one's essential nature, shining forth, having of itself…
- 22 tarkaṃ tu anugṛhṇīyur api sattarka eva sākṣāt tatra … [Other yogic limbs] may, however, assist reasoning;
- 23 sarve bhāvāḥ parameśvaratejomayā iti rūḍhavikalpaprāptyai parameśasaṃvidanalatejasi samastabhāvagrāsarasikatābhimate tattejomātrāvaśeṣatvasahasamastabhāvavilāpanaṃ … "All entities are composed of the radiance of the Supreme Lord" — for attaining this…
- 24 tathā ubhayātmakaparāmarśodayārthaṃ bāhyābhyantarādiprameyarūpabhinnabhāvānapekṣayaiva evaṃvidhaṃ tat paraṃ tattvaṃ svasvabhāvabhūtam … Likewise, in order that the reflective awareness of both [transcendence and immanence]…
- 25 sarvatra sarvadā nirupāyaparameśvarābhimānalābhāya parameśvarasamatābhimānena dehasyāpi ghaṭāder api avalokanaṃ … For attaining everywhere and always the means-less conviction of being the Supreme Lord,…
- 26 yathoktaṃ śrīnandiśikhāyām sarvasāmyaṃ paraṃ vratam iti As has been said in the Śrī-Nandiśikhā: "Sameness with all is the supreme vow.
- 27 itthaṃ vicitraiḥ śuddhavidyāṃśarūpaiḥ vikalpaiḥ yat anapekṣitavikalpaṃ svābhāvikaṃ paramārthatattvaṃ … Thus, when by manifold conceptual constructs that are portions of pure wisdom the…
- 28 tatra parameśvaraḥ pūrṇasaṃvitsvabhāvaḥ pūrṇataiva asya śaktiḥ kulaṃ sāmarthyam … Therein the Supreme Lord, whose essential nature is plenary consciousness — and that very…
- 29 sā ca samagraśaktitādarśanena pūrṇatāsaṃvit prakāśate And that [power] — as the awareness of fullness — shines forth through the seeing of the…
- 30 śaktayaś ca asya asaṅkhyeyāḥ And His powers are innumerable.
- 31 kiṃ bahunā yat viśvaṃ tā asya śaktayaḥ tāḥ … What need of saying more?
- 32 tisṛṣu tāvat viśvaṃ samāpyate yayā idaṃ śivādidharaṇyantam avikalpyasaṃvinmātrarūpatayā … Now, the universe is comprehended within three [powers].
- 33 yayā ca darpaṇahastyādivat bhedābhedābhyāṃ sā asya śrīparāparaśaktiḥ And the one by which [He manifests it] through both difference and non-difference — as an…
- 34 yayā parasparaviviktātmanā bhedenaiva sā asya śrīmadaparaśaktiḥ And the one by which [He manifests it] through difference alone, in a mode wherein things…
- 35 etat trividhaṃ yayā dhāraṇam ātmany eva kroḍīkāreṇa anusandhānātmanā … And the one by which He devours this threefold holding back into the Self alone — by an…
- 36 tā etāḥ catasraḥ śaktayaḥ svātantryāt pratyekaṃ tridhaiva vartante These four powers, through their freedom, each operate in just three ways:
- 37 sṛṣṭau sthitau saṃhāre ca iti dvādaśa bhavanti in emission, maintenance, and withdrawal — and thus they become twelve.
- 38 tathā hi saṃvit pūrvam antar eva bhāvaṃ kalayati … To explain: consciousness first impels (kalayati) an entity inwardly;
- 39 kalanaṃ ca gatiḥ kṣepo jñānaṃ gaṇanaṃ bhogīkaraṇaṃ śabdanaṃ … And "kalana" means: motion, casting forth, knowing, enumerating, making into an object of…
- 40 yad āhuḥ śrībhūtirājaguravaḥ kṣepāj jñānāc ca kālī kalanavaśatayātha … As the venerable guru Bhūtirāja said: "From casting forth and from knowing, by virtue of…
- 41 eṣa ca arthaḥ tatra tatra madviracite vivaraṇe prakaraṇastotrādau … And this topic should be examined at length here and there in my commentary, treatises,…
- 42 na atirahasyam ekatra khyāpyaṃ na ca sarvathā gopyam … For our gurus say: "The most secret teaching is neither to be proclaimed all in one…
- 43 tad evam yad uktaṃ yāgahomādi tat evaṃvidhe maheśvara … So then, what was said — the worship-offering, oblation, and the rest — is all to be…
- 44 sarve hi heyam eva upādeyabhūmirūpaṃ viṣṇutaḥ prabhṛti śivāntaṃ … For all [the lower schools] regard what is [really] to be discarded — [the levels] from…
- 45 tasmāt vaidikāt prabhṛti pārameśvarasiddhāntatantrakulocchuṣmādiśāstrokto 'pi yo niyamo vidhiḥ … Therefore it is established that here, whatever rule, injunction, or prohibition is…
- 46 tathaiva ca uktaṃ śrīpūrvādau vitatya tantrālokāt anveṣyam And it has been stated in just this way in the Śrī-Pūrva and elsewhere;