तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
- 1 yad idaṃ vibhavātmakaṃ bhuvanajātam uktaṃ garbhīkṛtānantavicitrabhoktṛbhogyaṃ tatra yad … This totality of worlds that has been described, consisting of cosmic expansion and…
- 2 yat tu katipayakatipayabhedānugataṃ rūpaṃ tat tattvaṃ yathā pṛthivī … But whatever form runs through only this or that limited set of differentiations, that is…
- 3 tatra eṣāṃ tattvānāṃ kāryakāraṇabhāvo darśyate sa ca dvividhaḥ Now the causal relation among these principles is set forth, and it is twofold.
- 4 pāramārthikaḥ sṛṣṭeś ca The ultimately real and that of (empirical) creation.
- 5 tatra pāramārthika etāvān kāryakāraṇabhāvo yad uta kartṛsvabhāvasya svatantrasya … Of these, the ultimately real causal relation amounts to just this: that the Blessed…
- 6 kalpitas tu kāryakāraṇabhāvaḥ parameśecchayā niyatiprāṇayā nirmitaḥ sa ca … The constructed causal relation, on the other hand, is fashioned by the will of the…
- 7 tatrāpi ca parameśvarasya kartṛtvānapāya iti akalpito 'pi asau … And even therein, since the Supreme Lord's agency never lapses, this ultimately real…
- 8 pāramārthike hi bhittisthānīye sthite rūpe sarvam idam ullikhyamānaṃ … For only when the ultimately real form is present, serving as the canvas-like ground, can…
- 9 sā hi samastabhāvasandarbhamayī svatantrasaṃvedanamahimnā tathā niyatanijanijadeśakālabhāvarāśisvabhāvā pratyekaṃ vastusvarūpaniṣpattisamaye … For that assemblage, composed of the entire fabric of existents through the glory of…
- 10 ity evaṃ saṃvedanasvātantryasvabhāvaḥ parameśvara eva viśvabhāvaśarīro ghaṭāder nirmātā … Thus the Supreme Lord alone, whose nature is the autonomy of consciousness and whose body…
- 11 tasmāt sāmagrīvādo 'pi viśvaśarīrasya saṃvedanasyaiva kartṛtāyām upodbalakaḥ Therefore even the doctrine of the causal assemblage merely corroborates the agency of…
- 12 merau hi tatrasthe na bhavet tathāvidho ghaṭaḥ For if the potter were situated on Mount Meru, a pot of that very kind would not come…
- 13 evaṃ kalpite 'smin kāryatve śāstreṣu tattvānāṃ kāryakāraṇabhāvaṃ prati … Thus, when this status of being an effect is taken as constructed, the multiplicity of…
- 14 tatra nijatantradṛśā taṃ kalpitaṃ darśayāmaḥ Now we set forth that constructed (causal relation) according to the view of our own…
- 15 tatra parameśvaraḥ pañcabhiḥ śaktibhiḥ nirbhara ity uktam sa … It has been said that the Supreme Lord is replete with the five powers.
- 16 citprādhānye śivatattvam ānandaprādhānye śaktitattvam icchāprādhānye sadāśivatattvam icchāyā hi … When consciousness predominates, there is the Śiva-principle;
- 17 atra ca tattveśvarāḥ śivaśaktisadāśiveśvarānantāḥ brahmeva nivṛttau eṣāṃ sāmānyarūpāṇāṃ … And here the lords of these principles are Śiva, Śakti, Sadāśiva, Īśvara, and Ananta —…
- 18 iyati sākṣāt śivaḥ kartā aśuddhaṃ punar adhvānam anantāparanāmāghoreśaḥ … Over just this much (the pure path) Śiva is directly the agent.
- 19 tatra loliko 'pūrṇam anyatārūpaḥ parispandaḥ akarmakam abhilāṣamātram eva … Therein the craving is an incomplete state, a stirring having the form of otherness;
- 20 rāgatattvaṃ tu karmāvacchinno 'bhilāṣaḥ The principle of Attachment (rāga), by contrast, is desire delimited by a particular…
- 21 karma tu tatra karmamātraṃ buddhidharmas tu rāgaḥ karmabhedacitra … The object there is a mere object;
- 22 so 'yaṃ malaḥ parameśvarasya svātmapracchādanecchātaḥ nānyat kiñcit vastv … This impurity arises from the Supreme Lord's will to veil his own self, and is nothing…
- 23 sa ca malo vijñānakevale vidyamāno dhvaṃsonmukha iti na … And that impurity, though present in the one isolated by gnosis (vijñānākala), is on the…
- 24 pralayakevalasya tu jṛmbhamāṇa eva āsta iti malopodbalitaṃ karma … But for the one isolated by dissolution (pralayākala) it remains in full operation;
- 25 aṇur nāma kila cidacidrūpāvabhāsa eva tasya cidrūpam aiśvaryam … The soul, indeed, is just the appearing of both a sentient and an insentient form: its…
- 26 evaṃ kalāditattvānāṃ dharāntānām api dvairūpyaṃ nirūpyam In this way the twofold nature is to be ascertained for the principles beginning with…
- 27 atra ca dvairūpye pramāṇam api āhur abhinavaguptaguravaḥ And regarding this twofold nature, the venerable masters of Abhinavagupta state a proof…
- 28 yat saṅkalpe bhāti tat pṛthagbhūtaṃ bahir api asti … Whatever appears in conception exists externally too, as something separate, with a…
- 29 tathā ca māyākalādikhapuṣpāder api eṣaiva vartanī iti kevalānvayī … And so this same procedure applies even to Māyā, kalā, and the rest, as well as to a…
- 30 anena ca māyākalāprakṛtibuddhyādiviṣayaṃ sākṣātkārarūpaṃ jñānaṃ ye bhajante te … And by this means, those who attain knowledge of the form of direct realization, having…
- 31 evaṃ sthite māyātattvāt viśvaprasavaḥ This being so, the bringing-forth of the universe proceeds from the Māyā-principle.
- 32 sa ca yady api akramam eva tathāpi uktadṛśā … And although that (bringing-forth) is in fact non-sequential, still, from the standpoint…
- 33 so 'pi ucyate tatra pratyātma kalādivargo bhinnaḥ That too is now described.
- 34 tatkāryasya kartṛtvopodbalanādeḥ pratyātmabhedena upalambhāt sa tu vargaḥ kadācit … Because its effect — the reinforcing of agency and so on — is observed as differing from…
- 35 sa ca parameśvaraśaktipātavaśāt tathā bhavati iti vakṣyāmas tatprakāśane And it becomes so by the force of the Supreme Lord's descent of power (śaktipāta) — this…
- 36 aśuddhas tu tadviparītaḥ The impure (group), on the other hand, is the opposite of that.
- 37 tatra māyātaḥ kalā jātā yā suptasthānīyam aṇuṃ kiñcitkartṛtvena … There, from Māyā arises kalā, which yokes the soul — as good as asleep — to a limited…
- 38 evam anyonyaśleṣāt alakṣaṇīyāntaratvaṃ puṃskalayoḥ Thus, because of their mutual coalescence, the difference between the soul and kalā…
- 39 māyāgarbhādhikāriṇas tu kasyacid īśvarasya prasādāt sarvakarmakṣaye māyāpuruṣaviveko bhavati … But for some soul, by the grace of a presiding agent contained within Māyā, upon the…
- 40 prakṛtipuruṣaviveko vā yena pradhānādho na saṃsaret Or a discrimination of prakṛti from the soul, whereby it would not transmigrate below the…
- 41 malapuruṣaviveke tu śivasamānatvam But when the impurity is discriminated from the soul, there is equality with Śiva.
- 42 puruṣapūrṇatādṛṣṭau tu śivatvam eveti But when there is the vision of the soul's full perfection, there is the very state of…
- 43 evaṃ kalātattvam eva kiñcitkartṛtvadāyi na ca Thus it is the principle of kalā alone that bestows a limited agency, and not.
- 44 kartṛtvam ajñasya iti ...for agency belongs to the ignorant soul (alone).
- 45 kiñcijjñatvadāyiny aśuddhavidyā kalāto jātā sā ca vidyā buddhiṃ … Impure Knowledge, which bestows limited knowership, arises from kalā.
- 46 buddher guṇasaṅkīrṇākārāyā vivekena grahītum asāmarthyāt This is because the intellect, whose form is intermingled with the qualities (guṇas), is…
- 47 tasmāt buddhipratibimbito bhāvo vidyayā vivicyate Therefore an object reflected in the intellect is discriminated by Knowledge.
- 48 kiñcitkartṛtvaṃ kiñcidbhāgasiddhaye kvacid eva kartṛtvam ity atra arthe … Limited agency, for the sake of accomplishing the "limited" portion, comes down to this…
- 49 na ca avairāgyakṛtaṃ tat avairāgyasyāpi araktidarśanāt Nor is that (attachment) produced by non-detachment, since absence of attachment is…
- 50 vairāgye dharmādāv api raktir dṛśyate Even in a state of detachment, attachment toward virtue and the like is observed.
- 51 tṛptasya ca annādau avairāgyābhāve 'pi antaḥstharāgānapāyāt And in the case of one who is satiated with food and the like — even where there is no…
- 52 tena vinā punar avairāgyānutpattiprasaṅgāt For without that (underlying attachment), it would follow that non-detachment could never…
- 53 kālaś ca kāryaṃ kalayaṃs tadavacchinnaṃ kartṛtvam api kalayati … And Time, measuring out the effect, also measures out agency as delimited by that effect.
- 54 kāryakāraṇabhāve 'pi asyā eva vyāpāraḥ tena kalāta eva … In the causal relation too the operation belongs to this very (Necessity).
- 55 tad idaṃ māyādiṣaṭkaṃ kañcukaṣaṭkam ucyate This set of six beginning with Māyā is called the six sheaths (kañcukas).
- 56 saṃvido māyayā apahastitatvena kalādīnām uparipātināṃ kañcukavat avasthānāt (They are so called) because, consciousness having been thrust aside by Māyā, the…
- 57 evaṃ kiñcitkartṛtvaṃ yat māyākāryaṃ tatra kiñcit tv aviśiṣṭaṃ … Thus, in the limited agency that is an effect of Māyā, the "limited" is the qualifier…
- 58 idānīṃ viśeṣaṇabhāgo yaḥ kiñcid ity ukto jñeyaḥ kāryaś … Now the qualifier portion, which was called "the limited," is to be understood as both…
- 59 atra caiṣāṃ vāstavena pathā kramavandhyaiva sṛṣṭir ity uktaṃ … And here it has been said that, by the ultimate approach, the creation of these is barren…
- 60 kramaś ca vidyārāgādīnāṃ vicitro 'pi dṛṣṭaḥ kaścid rajyan … And the sequence of Knowledge, Attachment, and the rest is seen to be manifold: one…
- 61 tena bhinnakramanirūpaṇam api rauravādiṣu śāstreṣu aviruddhaṃ mantavyaṃ tad … Therefore the description of a divergent sequence in the Raurava and other scriptures…
- 62 yatra sukhaṃ bhogyarūpaprakāśaḥ sattvam duḥkhaṃ prakāśāprakāśāndolanātmakam ata eva … Therein pleasure is the illumination of the object as enjoyable, which is sattva;
- 63 tritayam api etat bhogyarūpam This triad too is of the nature of an object of experience.
- 64 evaṃ kṣubdhāt pradhānāt kartavyāntarodayaḥ na akṣubdhād iti Thus a further effect arises from the agitated primal substance, not from the unagitated…
- 65 kṣobhaḥ avaśyam eva antarāle abhyupagantavya iti siddhaṃ sāṅkhyāparidṛṣṭaṃ … Since agitation must necessarily be admitted in the interval (between prakṛti and its…
- 66 sa ca kṣobhaḥ prakṛtes tattveśādhiṣṭhānād eva anyathā niyataṃ … And that agitation of prakṛti comes about only through the presiding of the lord of the…
- 67 tato guṇatattvāt buddhitattvaṃ yatra pumprakāśo viṣayaś ca pratibimbam … Then, from the principle of the qualities, arises the principle of intellect, upon which…
- 68 buddhitattvāt ahaṅkāro yena buddhipratibimbite vedyasamparke kaluṣe pumprakāśe anātmani … From the principle of intellect arises the I-maker (ahaṅkāra), by which there is, in the…
- 69 ata eva kāra ity anena kṛtakatvam asya uktaṃ … For this very reason the element "kāra" (in ahaṅkāra) declares it to be a product.
- 70 tac ca śuddhaṃ vimarśa eva apratiyogi svātmacamatkārarūpo 'ham … And that pure (I-awareness) is reflective self-awareness alone, without any correlate, of…
- 71 eṣo 'sya ahaṅkārasya karaṇaskandhaḥ This is the instrument-trunk of that I-maker.
- 72 prakṛtiskandhas tu tasyaiva trividhaḥ sattvādibhedāt But the nature-trunk of that same (I-maker) is threefold, through the division into…
- 73 tatra sāttviko yasmāt manaś ca buddhīndriyapañcakaṃ ca tatra … Of these, from the sāttvika one arise the mind and the five faculties of knowledge.
- 74 śrotre tu śabdajananasāmarthyaviśiṣṭa iti yāvat ghrāṇe gandhajananayogyatāyukta iti … In (producing) the organ of hearing it is distinguished by the capacity to produce sound,…
- 75 kartraṃśaś ca ahaṅkāra eva tena mukhye karaṇe dve … And the agent-aspect is just the I-maker.
- 76 na ca kartavyasāṅkaryamuktād eva hetoḥ kriyā karaṇakāryā mukhyaṃ … Nor (is this objectionable), for by the very reasoning already given about the…
- 77 sa ca pañcakaḥ anusandhes tāvattvāt And it is a set of five, because the kinds of intentional purpose are just that many.
- 78 tathā hi bahis tāvat tyāgāya vā anusandhiḥ ādānāya … To explain: outwardly, the intentional purpose is either for releasing, or for grasping,…
- 79 antaḥ prāṇāśrayakarmānusandhes tu vāgindriyam tena indriyādhiṣṭhāne haste yat … But for the intentional purpose of inward action grounded in the breath, there is the…
- 80 anye tu rājasān mana ity āhuḥ Others, however, say that the mind arises from the rājasa (I-maker).
- 81 anye tu sāttvikāt mano rājasāc ca indriyāṇi iti Yet others say that the mind arises from the sāttvika (I-maker) and the faculties from…
- 82 bhoktraṃśāc chādakāt tu tamaḥpradhānāhaṅkārāt tanmātrāṇi vedyaikarūpāṇi pañca But from the experiencer-aspect, which veils — that is, from the I-maker in which tamas…
- 83 śabdaviśeṣāṇāṃ hi kṣobhātmanāṃ yad ekam akṣobhātmakaṃ prāgbhāvi sāmānyam … For of the particular sounds, which are of the nature of agitation, that one which is…
- 84 evaṃ gandhānte 'pi vācyam The same is to be said for the rest, up to and ending with odor.
- 85 tatra śabdatanmātrāt kṣubhitāt avakāśadānavyāpāraṃ nabhaḥ śabdasya vācyādhyāsāvakāśasahatvāt There, from the agitated sound-subtle-element arises ether, whose function is the giving…
- 86 śabdatanmātraṃ kṣubhitaṃ vāyuḥ śabdas tu asya nabhasā virahābhāvāt The agitated sound-subtle-element is air;
- 87 rūpaṃ kṣubhitaṃ tejaḥ pūrvaguṇau tu pūrvavat The agitated color-element is fire;
- 88 rasaḥ kṣubhita āpaḥ pūrve trayaḥ pūrvavat The agitated taste-element is water;
- 89 gandhaḥ kṣubhito dharā pūrve catvāraḥ pūrvavat The agitated odor-element is earth;
- 90 anye śabdasparśābhyāṃ vāyuḥ ityādikrameṇa pañcabhyo dharaṇī iti manyante Others hold that, by the sequence "air arises from sound and touch," and so on, earth…
- 91 guṇasamudāyamātraṃ ca pṛthivī nānyo guṇī kaścit And earth is merely an aggregate of qualities;
- 92 asmiṃś ca tattvakalāpe ūrdhvordhvaguṇaṃ vyāpakaṃ nikṛṣṭaguṇaṃ tu vyāpyam And in this collection of principles, that which has successively higher qualities is the…
- 93 sa eva guṇasya utkarṣo yat tena vinā guṇāntaraṃ … And this is precisely the superiority of a quality: that without it another quality is…