Containing 34 sacred Sanskrit shlokas with multi-author commentaries and translations.
जन्मौषधिमन्त्रतपःसमाधिजाः सिद्धयः
janma auṣadhi mantra tapaḥ samādhijāḥ siddhayaḥ
"The mystic skills are produced through taking birth in particular species, or by taking drugs, or by reciting special sounds, or by physical bodily austerities or by the continuous effortless linkage of the attention to a higher concentration force, object or person."
जात्यन्तरपरिणामः प्रकृत्यापूरात्
jātyantara pariṇāmaḥ prakṛtyāpūrāt
"The transformation from one category to another is by the saturation of the subtle material nature."
निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु ततः क्षेत्रिकवत्
nimittaṁ aprayojakaṁ prakṛtīnāṁ varaṇabhedaḥ tu tataḥ kṣetrikavat
"The motivating force of the subtle material energy is not used except for the disintegration of impediments, hence it is compared to a farmer."
निर्माणचित्तान्यस्मितामात्रात्
nirmāṇacittāni asmitāmātrāt
"The formation of regions within the mento-emotional energy, arises only from the sense of identity which is developed in relation to material nature."
प्रवृत्तिभेदे प्रयोजकं चित्तमेकमनेकेषाम्
pravṛtti bhede prayojakaṁ cittam ekam anekeṣām
"The one mento-emotional energy is that which is very much used in numberless different dispersals of energy."
तत्र ध्यानजमनाशयम्
tatra dhyānajam anāśayam
"In that case only subtle activities which are produced from the effortless linkage of the attention to a higher reality are without harmful emotions."
कर्माशुक्लाकृष्णं योगिनस्त्रिविधमितरेषाम्
karma aśukla akṛṣnaṁ yoginaḥ trividham itareṣām
"The cultural activity of the yogis is neither rewarding nor penalizing, but others have three types of such action."
ततस्तद्विपाकानुगुणानामेवाभिव्यक्तिर्वासनानाम्
tataḥ tadvipāka anuguṇānām eva abhivyaktiḥ vāsanānām
"Subsequently from those cultural activities there is development according to corresponding features only, bringing about the manifestation of the tendencies within the mento-emotional energy."
जातिदेशकालव्यवहितानामप्यानन्तर्यं स्मृतिसंस्कारयोरेकरूपत्वात्
jāti deśa kāla vyavahitānām api ānantaryaṁ smṛti saṁskārayoḥ ekarūpatvāt
"Even though circumstances are separated by status, location and time, still the impressions which form cultural activities and the resulting memories, are of one form and operate on a timeful sequence."
तासामनादित्वं चाशिषो नित्यत्वात्
tāsām anāditvaṁ ca āśiṣaḥ nityatvāt
"Those memories and impressions are primeval, without a beginning. Hope and desire energies are eternal as well."
हेतुफलाश्रयालम्बनैः सङ्गृहीतत्वादेषामभावे तदभावः
hetu phala āśraya ālambanaiḥ saṅgṛhītatvāt eṣām abhāve tad abhāvaḥ
"They exist by what holds them together in terms of cause and effect, supportive base and lifting influence. Otherwise if their causes are not there, they have no existence."
अतीतानागतं स्वरूपतोऽस्त्यध्वभेदाद्धर्माणाम्
atīta anāgataṁ svarūpataḥ asti adhvabhedāt dharmāṇām
"There is a true form of the past and future denoted by the different courses of their characteristics."
ते व्यक्तसूक्ष्मा गुणात्मानः
te vyakta sūkṣmāḥ guṇātmānaḥ
"They are gross or subtle, all depending on their inherent nature."
परिणामैकत्वाद्वस्तुतत्त्वम्
pariṇāma ekatvāt vastutattvam
"The actual composition of an object is based on the uniqueness of the transformation."
वस्तुसाम्ये चित्तभेदात्तयोर्विभक्तः पन्थाः
vastusāmye cittabhedāt tayoḥ vibhaktaḥ panthāḥ
"Because of a difference in the mento-emotional energy of two persons, separate prejudices manifest in their viewing of the very same object."
न चैकचित्ततन्त्रं वस्तु तदप्रमाणकं तदा किं स्यात्
na ca ekacitta tantraṁ ced vastu tat apramāṇakaṁ tadā kiṁ syāt
"An object is not dependent on one person’s mento-emotional perception. Otherwise, what would happen if it were not being perceived by that person?"
तदुपरागापेक्षित्वाच्चित्तस्य वस्तु ज्ञाताज्ञातम्
taduparāga apekṣitvāt cittasya vastu jñāta ajñātam
"An object is known or unknown, all depending on the mood and expectation of the particular mento-emotional energy of the person in reference to it."
सदा ज्ञाताश्चित्तवृत्तयस्तत्प्रभोः पुरुषस्यापरिणामित्वात्
sadā jñātāḥ cittavṛttayaḥ tatprabhoḥ puruṣasya apariṇāmitvāt
"The operations of the mento-emotional energy are always known to that governor because of the changelessness of that spirit."
न तत्स्वाभासं दृश्यत्वात्
na tat svābhāsaṁ dṛśyatvāt
"That mento-emotional energy is not self-illuminative for it is rather only capable of being perceived"
एकसमये चोभयानवधारणम्
ekasamaye ca ubhaya anavadhāraṇam
"It cannot execute the focus of both at the same time"
चित्तान्तरदृश्ये बुद्धिबुद्धेरतिप्रसङ्गः स्मृतिसङ्करश्च
cittāntaradṛśye buddhibuddheḥ atiprasaṅgaḥ smṛtisaṅkaraḥ ca
"In the perception of mento-emotional energy by another such energy, there would be an intellect perceiving another intellect independently. That would cause absurdity and confusion of memory."
चितेरप्रतिसङ्क्रमायास्तदाकारापत्तौ स्वबुद्धिसंवेदनम्
citeḥ apratisaṁkramāyāḥ tadākārāpattau svabuddhisaṁvedanam
"The perception of its own intellect occurs when it assumes that form in which there is no movement from one operation to another."
द्रष्टृदृश्योपरक्तं चित्तं सर्वार्थम्
draṣṭṛ dṛśya uparaktaṁ cittaṁ sarvārtham
"The mento-emotional energy which is prejudiced by the perceiver and the perceived, is all-evaluating."
तदसङ्ख्येयवासनाभिश्चित्रमपि परार्थं संहत्यकारित्वात्
tat asaṅkhyeya vāsanābhiḥ citram api parārthaṁ saṁhatyakāritvāt
"Although the mento-emotional energy is diverse by innumerable subtle impressions, it acts for the sake of another power because of its proximity to that other force."
विशेषदर्शिन आत्मभावभावनाविनिवृत्तिः
viśeṣadarśinaḥ ātmabhāva bhāvanānivṛttiḥ
"There is total stopping of the operations of the mento-emotional energy for the person who perceives the distinction between feelings and the spirit itself."
तदा विवेकनिम्नं कैवल्यप्राग्भारं चित्तम्
tadā hi vivekanimnaṁ kaivalya prāgbhāraṁ cittam
"Then, indeed, the mento-emotional force is inclined towards discrimination and gravitates towards the total separation from the mundane psychology."
तच्छिद्रेषु प्रत्ययान्तराणि संस्कारेभ्यः
tat cchidreṣu pratyayāntarāṇi saṁskārebhyaḥ
"Besides that, in the relaxation of the focus, other mind contents arise in the intervals. These are based on subtle impressions"
हानमेषां क्लेशवदुक्तम्
hānam eṣāṁ kleśavat uktam
"As authoritatively stated, the complete removal of these is like the elimination of the mento-emotional afflictions."
प्रसङ्ख्यानेऽप्यकुसीदस्य सर्वथा विवेकख्यातेर्धर्ममेघः समाधिः
prasaṁkhyāne api akusīdasya sarvathā vivekakhyāteḥ dharmameghaḥ samādhiḥ
"For one who sees no gains in material nature, even while perceiving it in abstract meditation, he has the super discrimination. He attained the continuous effortless linkage of the attention to higher reality which is described as knowing the mento-emotional clouds of energy which compel a person to perform according to nature’s way of acting for beneficial results."
ततः क्लेशकर्मनिवृत्तिः
tataḥ kleśa karma nivṛttiḥ
"Subsequently there is stoppage of the operation of the mento-emotional energy in terms of generation of cultural activities and their resulting afflictions."