The Essence of the Tantra · Chapter 5

The Essence of the Tantra — Chapter 5

तन्त्रसार

Tantrasāra


Chapter 5 43 verses

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  1. 1 tatra yadā vikalpaḥ svayam eva saṃskāram ātmani upāyāntaranirapekṣatayaiva … Now, when the conceptual construct becomes able of itself to effect its own refinement…
  2. 2 tad etac ca nirṇītam anantara eva āhnike And this has been settled in the immediately preceding chapter.
  3. 3 yadā tu upāyāntaram asau svasaṃskārārthaṃ vikalpo 'pekṣate tadā … But when this conceptual construct requires another means for its own refinement, then,…
  4. 4 tatra dhyānaṃ tāvat iha ucitam upadekṣyāmaḥ yat etat … As for meditation, we shall teach what is fitting here.
  5. 5 evaṃ tac cakraṃ samastabāhyavastvabhedaparipūrṇaṃ sampadyate In this way that wheel comes to be utterly full through its non-difference from all…
  6. 6 tato vāsanāśeṣān api bhāvān tena cakreṇa itthaṃ kṛtān … Thereafter one should meditate upon even those entities that remain only as latent…
  7. 7 evam asya anavarataṃ dhyāyinaḥ svasaṃvinmātraparamārthān sṛṣṭisthitisaṃhāraprabandhān sṛṣṭyādisvātantryaparamārthatvaṃ ca … Thus, for one who meditates incessantly in this way — ascertaining that the continua of…
  8. 8 abhyāsāt tu sarvepsitasiddhyādayo 'pi And through repeated practice, the attainments of all that is desired, and the rest, come…
  9. 9 svaprakāśaṃ samastātmatattvaṃ mātrādikaṃ trayam The self-luminous reality that is the Self of all, [together with] the triad beginning…
  10. 10 antaḥkṛtya sthitaṃ dhyāyed dhṛdayānandadhāmani having taken [them] within, one should meditate upon [it] as abiding in the abode of the…
  11. 11 tad dvādaśamahāśaktiraśmicakreśvaraṃ vibhum [Meditating upon] that all-pervading Lord of the wheel of rays that are the twelve great…
  12. 12 vyomabhir niḥsarad bāhye dhyāyet sṛṣṭyādibhāvakam one should meditate upon [it] as issuing forth through the sensory apertures and…
  13. 13 tad grastasarvabāhyāntarbhāvamaṇḍalam ātmani [then,] having devoured the entire orb of inner and outer entities into the Self,
  14. 14 viśrāmyan bhāvayed yogī syād evam ātmanaḥ prathā the yogin, coming to rest [therein], should contemplatively realize [it]: in this way…
  15. 15 iti saṅgrahaślokāḥ Thus the summary verses.
  16. 16 iti dhyānam Thus [the section on] meditation.
  17. 17 tatra prāṇam uccicārayiṣuḥ pūrvaṃ hṛdaya eva śūnye viśrāmyati … Therein, one wishing to raise the breath first comes to rest in the very void of the…
  18. 18 tadgrāsakavahnipraśame vyānodaye sarvāvacchedavandhyaḥ sphurati When the fire that devours that has subsided, at the rising of the pervasive breath one…
  19. 19 evaṃ śūnyāt prabhṛti vyānāntaṃ yā etā viśrāntayaḥ tā … Thus, these reposes — from the void up to the pervasive breath — are taught as the six…
  20. 20 tat etāsu uccārabhūmiṣu pratyekaṃ dvyādiśaḥ sarvaśo vā viśrāmya … So, having come to rest in these levels of [vital] utterance — each singly, by twos and…
  21. 21 tad eva sṛṣṭisaṃhārabījoccāraṇarahasyam anusandadhat vikalpaṃ saṃskuryāt āsu ca … Holding in reflective awareness that very secret of uttering the seed-syllables of…
  22. 22 tatra prāg ānandaḥ pūrṇatāṃśasparśāt tata udbhavaḥ kṣaṇaṃ niḥśarīratāyāṃ … Therein: first, bliss (ānanda), from the touch of a portion of fullness;
  23. 23 ittham anātmani ātmabhāve līne svātmanaḥ sarvamayatvāt ātmani anātmabhāvo … Thus, when the sense of self in the non-self has dissolved, then — since one's own Self…
  24. 24 tā etā jāgradādibhūmayaḥ turyātītāntāḥ These are the states beginning with waking and ending with the state-beyond-the-fourth…
  25. 25 etāś ca bhūmayaḥ trikoṇakandahṛttālūrdhvakuṇḍalinīcakrapraveśe bhavanti And these states occur upon entry into the centers — the triangle, the bulb (kanda), the…
  26. 26 evam uccāraviśrāntau yat paraṃ spandanaṃ galitāśeṣavedyaṃ yac ca … Thus, in the repose of [vital] utterance, the supreme vibration in which every knowable…
  27. 27 paraṃ cātra liṅgaṃ yoginīhṛdayam And here the supreme liṅga is the Heart of the Yoginī.
  28. 28 tatra mukhyā spandanarūpatā saṅkocavikāsātmatayā yāmalarūpatodayena visargakalāviśrāntilābhāt ity alam Therein the primary nature as vibration [obtains], by virtue of being of the nature of…
  29. 29 aprakāśaḥ atra anupraveśaḥ Here the [way of] entry is [into] the non-luminous.
  30. 30 pūrvaṃ svabodhe tadanu prameye viśramya meyaṃ paripūrayeta First in one's own awareness, then having come to rest in the object of knowledge, one…
  31. 31 pūrṇe 'tra viśrāmyati mātṛmeyavibhāgam āśv eva sa saṃhareta and when one comes to rest in the full [knowable] here, one should at once withdraw the…
  32. 32 vyāptyātha viśrāmyati tā imāḥ syuḥ śūnyena sākaṃ ṣaḍupāyabhūmyaḥ then one comes to rest through pervasion.
  33. 33 prāṇādayo vyānanapaścimās tallīnaś ca jāgrat prabhṛti prapañcaḥ [The breaths] beginning with prāṇa, with vyāna as the last, and merged into that [void] —…
  34. 34 abhyāsaniṣṭho 'tra tu sṛṣṭisaṃhṛdvimarśadhāmany acireṇa rohet But one devoted to practice here would, before long, be established in the abode of the…
  35. 35 iti āntaraślokāḥ Thus the internal verses.
  36. 36 iti uccāraṇam Thus [the section on] vital utterance.
  37. 37 asmin eva uccāre sphuran avyaktānukṛtiprāyo dhvaniḥ varṇaḥ tasya … Scintillating within this very [vital] utterance, the sound that resembles an…
  38. 38 antaḥsparśadvimarśānantarasamudbhūtaṃ sitapītādyāntaraṃ varṇam udbhāvyamānaṃ saṃvidam anubhāvayati iti kecit The inner color — white, yellow, and so on — arising immediately after the inner touch…
  39. 39 vācyaviraheṇa saṃvitspandād indvarkagatinirodhābhyām Through the absence of any denoted object, from the vibration of consciousness, by the…
  40. 40 yasya tu samasampraveśāt pūrṇāṃ cidbījapiṇḍavarṇavidhau for whom [it arises] from a balanced, complete entry — [one attains] the full…
  41. 41 iti āntaraślokaḥ Thus the internal verse.
  42. 42 iti varṇavidhiḥ Thus [the section on] the method of the phoneme.
  43. 43 karaṇaṃ tu mudrāprakāśane vakṣyāmaḥ As for the [bodily] instrument, we shall explain it in the exposition of the mudrās.