तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
- 1 sa ca saptadhā ṣaḍardhaśāstra eva paraṃ parameśena uktaḥ And that has been declared sevenfold in the highest manner by the Supreme Lord, precisely…
- 2 tatra śivāḥ mantramaheśāḥ mantreśāḥ mantrāḥ vijñānākalāḥ pralayākalāḥ sakalā … Therein the power-holders are seven: the Śivas, the Great Lords of Mantra, the Lords of…
- 3 eṣāṃ saptaiva śaktayaḥ tadbhedāt pṛthivyādipradhānatattvāntaṃ caturdaśabhir bhedaiḥ pratyekaṃ … Of these there are just seven powers;
- 4 tatra svaṃ rūpaṃ prameyatāyogyaṃ svātmaniṣṭham aparābhaṭṭārikānugrahāt pramātṛṣu udriktaśaktiṣu … Therein its own form, fit to be an object and resting in its own self, comes about…
- 5 śaktimadrūpapradhāne tu pramātṛvarge yat viśrāntaṃ tac chaktimac chivarūpaṃ … But that which comes to rest in the class of perceivers in which the power-holder's form…
- 6 pramātṝṇāṃ śivāt prabhṛti sakalāntānāṃ tāvatām uktatvāt For the perceivers, beginning from Śiva and ending with the Sakala, have been declared to…
- 7 tatra śaktibhedād eva pramātṝṇāṃ bhedaḥ sa ca sphuṭīkaraṇārthaṃ … The difference among the perceivers arises precisely from the difference of powers, and…
- 8 vijñānākalasya te eva vigalatkalpe tatsaṃskārasacivā prabudhyamānā śuddhavidyā mantrasya For the Vijñānākala those very powers are in a state all but dissolved;
- 9 tatsaṃskārahīnā saiva prabuddhā mantreśasya For the Lord of Mantra it is that very same Pure Knowledge, now fully awakened and free…
- 10 saiva icchāśaktirūpatāṃ svātantryasvabhāvāṃ jighṛkṣantī mantramaheśvarasya For the Great Lord of Mantra it is that very same Knowledge, on the verge of seizing the…
- 11 icchātmikā sphuṭasvātantryātmikā śivasya iti śaktibhedāḥ sapta mukhyāḥ For Śiva it is the will itself, consisting of manifest, full-blown autonomy.
- 12 taduparāgakṛtaś ca śaktimatsu pramātṛṣu bhedaḥ karaṇabhedasya kartṛbhedaparyavasānāt śakter … And the difference among the power-holding perceivers is produced by the tinge of that…
- 13 vastutaḥ punar eka eva citsvātantryānandaviśrāntaḥ pramātā tatra pṛthivī … In reality, however, the perceiver is one alone, reposing in the bliss of the autonomy of…
- 14 nanu bhāvasya cet vedyatā svaṃ vapuḥ tat sarvān … But surely, the objector says, if an entity's knowability is its very essence, then it is…
- 15 na tat svaṃ vapuḥ svarūpasya pṛthaguktatvāt kiṃ tarhi … That knowability is not the entity's own essence, since the own-form was spoken of…
- 16 anantapramātṛsaṃvedyam api ekam eva tat tasya rūpaṃ tāvati … Though cognizable by infinite perceivers, that form of it is one alone, since in that…
- 17 tāvaty udriktarāgādikañcukasya sakalasya pramātṛtvāt sakalasyāpi evaṃ pāñcadaśyaṃ tasyāpi … Since within that limit the perceiver is the Sakala, in whom the sheaths of attachment…
- 18 vitatya caitat nirṇītaṃ tantrāloke And this has been settled at length in the Tantrāloka.
- 19 puṃsaḥ prabhṛti kalātattvāntaṃ trayodaśadhā From the puruṣa up to the kalā-tattva, it is thirteenfold.
- 20 sakalasya tatra pramātṛtāyogena tacchaktiśaktimadātmano bhedadvayasya pratyastamayāt tathā ca … There, owing to the Sakala's lack of perceiverhood, the pair of distinctions — its power…
- 21 vijñānākalasya svarūpatve caturṇāṃ pramātṛtve nava bhedāḥ When the Vijñānākala is the own-form and the four are perceivers, there are nine…
- 22 mantrasya svarūpatve trayāṇāṃ pramātṛtve sapta When the Mantra is the own-form and the three are perceivers, there are seven.
- 23 mantreśasya svarūpatve dvayoḥ pramātṛtve pañca When the Lord of Mantra is the own-form and the two are perceivers, there are five.
- 24 mantramaheśasya svarūpatve bhagavata ekasyaiva pramātṛtve śaktiśaktimadbhedāt trayaḥ When the Great Lord of Mantra is the own-form and the Blessed One alone is the perceiver,…
- 25 śivasya tu prakāśaikacitsvātantryanirbharasya na ko 'pi bhedaḥ paripūrṇatvāt But for Śiva, replete with the sole autonomy of luminous consciousness, there is no…
- 26 evam ayaṃ tattvabheda eva parameśvarānuttaranayaikākhye nirūpitaḥ bhuvanabhedavaicitryaṃ karoti … Thus this very difference of the tattvas, expounded under what is named the sole method…
- 27 atra ca parasparaṃ bhedakalanayā avāntarabhedajñānakutūhalī tantrālokam eva avadhārayet And here, one curious to know the intermediate distinctions by reckoning the mutual…
- 28 evam ekaikaghaṭādyanusāreṇāpi pṛthivyādīnāṃ tattvānāṃ bhedo nirūpitaḥ Thus the difference of the tattvas beginning with earth has been set forth even by…
- 29 adhunā samastaṃ pṛthivītattvaṃ pramātṛprameyarūpam uddiśya nirūpyate yo dharātattvābhedena … Now the entire earth-principle is set forth with reference to its form as perceiver and…
- 30 yathā śrutiḥ pṛthivy evedaṃ brahma iti As the Vedic revelation says: 'This Brahman is verily earth.
- 31 dharātattvasiddhipradān prerayati sa dharāmantramaheśvaraḥ preryo dharāmantreśaḥ tasyaivābhimānikavigrahatātmako vācako … The Great Lord of Mantra of earth is he who impels those that bestow the powers of the…
- 32 pāśavavidyākrameṇa abhyastapārthivayogaḥ kalpānte maraṇe vā dharāpralayakevalaḥ He who has practiced union with the earthen principle by the gradation of bound-soul lore…
- 33 sauṣupte hi tattvāveśavaśād eva citrasya svapnasya udayaḥ syāt … For in deep sleep, precisely by the force of absorption into a tattva, the arising of a…
- 34 atrāpi śaktyudrekanyagbhāvābhyāṃ caturdaśatvam iti pramātṛtāpannasya dharātattvasya bhedāḥ svarūpaṃ … Here too the fourteenfold character arises by the heightening and the subordination of…
- 35 atha ekasmin pramātari prāṇapratiṣṭhitatayā bhedanirūpaṇam iha nīlaṃ gṛhṇataḥ … Now, the differentiation as measured by its being established in the breath.
- 36 svakāryakartṛtā tu grāhakarūpatā iti uktaṃ na sā bhūyo … But the agency-of-one's-own-effect has been said to be the state of being the perceiver,…
- 37 vikalpanyūnatve tu tuṭinyūnatā sukhādisaṃvittāv iva yāvat avikalpataiva But when conceptual construction diminishes, there is a corresponding diminution in the…
- 38 lokās tu vikalpaviśrāntyā tām ahantāmayīm ahantācchāditedambhāvavikalpaprasarāṃ nirvikalpāṃ vimarśabhuvam … Ordinary people, however, through resting in conceptual construction, suppose that ground…
- 39 evaṃ ca pāñcadaśye sthite yāvat sphuṭedantātmano bhedasya nyūnatā … And thus, when the fifteenfold set is established, to the extent that the diminution of…
- 40 yad āha śrīkallaṭaḥ tuṭipāta iti atra pātaśabdaṃ saiva … As the venerable Kallaṭa said: "the falling of the instant.
- 41 evaṃ mantramaheśatuṭeḥ prabhṛti tattadabhyāsāt tattatsiddhiḥ Thus, beginning from the instant of the Great Lord of Mantra onward, by the practice of…
- 42 athātraiva jāgradādyavasthā nirūpyante tatra vedyasya tadviṣayāyāś ca saṃvido … Now, in this very connection, the states beginning with waking are examined.
- 43 tatra yadādhiṣṭheyatayā bahīrūpatayā bhānaṃ tadā jāgradavasthā meye mātari … Therein, when the appearing is as that which is to be presided over, in an outward form,…
- 44 yadā tu tatraiva adhiṣṭhānarūpatayā bhānaṃ saṅkalpaḥ tadā svapnāvasthā But when, in that very triad, the appearing is in the form of the presiding seat — that…
- 45 yadā tu tatraiva adhiṣṭhātṛrūpatayā bījātmatayaiva bhānaṃ tadā suṣuptāvasthā But when, in that very triad, the appearing is in the form of the presider, precisely as…
- 46 imā eva tisraḥ prameyapramāṇapramātravasthāḥ pratyekaṃ jāgradādibhedāt caturvidhā uktāḥ These very three states — of object, means of knowledge, and perceiver — are each said to…
- 47 yadā tu tasminn eva pramātṛviśrāntigate pramātuḥ pūrṇataunmukhyāt taddvāreṇa … But when, in that very state come to rest in the perceiver, the appearing is — through…
- 48 etad eva avasthācatuṣṭayaṃ piṇḍasthapadastharūpastharūpātītaśabdair yogino vyavaharanti prasaṅkhyānadhanās tu … This very set of four states the yogins designate by the terms "located-in-the-body,"…
- 49 anvarthaṃ cātra darśitaṃ tantrāloke ślokavārttike ca And the aptness of these names to their meaning has been shown here in the Tantrāloka and…
- 50 yac ca sarvāntarbhūtaṃ pūrṇarūpaṃ tat turyātītaṃ sarvātītaṃ mahāpracayaṃ … And that of complete form, within which all is contained, they designate as…
- 51 kiṃ ca yasya yad yadā rūpaṃ sphuṭaṃ sthiram … Moreover: that form which, for someone at some time, is manifest, stable, and continuous…
- 52 tatra svarūpasakalau 1 pralayākalaḥ 2 vijñānākalaḥ 3 mantratadīśatanmaheśavargaḥ … Therein, in the fifteenfold division, there are five states: (1) the own-nature together…
- 53 svarūpaṃ pralayākala ityādikrameṇa trayodaśabhede svarūpaṃ vijñānākalaśaktiḥ vijñānākala ity … By the sequence "own-nature, Pralayākala," and so on, in the thirteenfold division;