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The Yoga of Emptiness

(Chapter 5)

Chapter 5

Chapter Quiz

Verse 1

tantry ādi vādya śabdeṣu dīrgheṣu krama saṁsthiteḥ | ananya cetāḥpratyante para vyoma vapur bhavet || 41 ||

AI Translation

In the prolonged, successive sounds of stringed and other musical instruments, one whose mind is undivided should, at the end of each (sound), become the form of the supreme ether (or supreme consciousness).

Verse 2

piṇḍa mantrasya sarvasya sthūla varṇa krameṇa tu | ardhendu bindu nādāntaḥśūnyoccārād bhavec chivaḥ || 42 ||

AI Translation

For all seed-mantras (piṇḍa-mantras), through the sequence of their gross letters and culminating in Ardhacandra (half-moon), Bindu (dot), and Nada (sound), by the utterance of the void (śūnya), Shiva becomes manifest.

Verse 3

nija dehe sarva dikkaṁyugapad bhāvayed viyat | nirvikalpa manās tasya viyat sarvam pravartate || 43 ||

AI Translation

One should simultaneously conceive of space (ether) in all directions within one's own body. For him whose mind is free from concepts, all becomes space.

Verse 4

pṛṣṭa śūnyaṁmūla śūnyaṁyugapad bhāvayec ca yaḥ |śarīra nirapekṣiṇyā śaktyā śūnya manā bhavet || 44 ||

AI Translation

One who simultaneously contemplates that which is without support and without origin, by a power independent of the body, becomes empty-minded.

Verse 5

pṛṣṭa śūnyaṁmūla śūnyaṁhṛcchūnyam bhāvayet sthiram | yugapan nirvikalpa tvān nirvikalpodayas tataḥ || 45 ||

AI Translation

One should steadily contemplate (it as) devoid of a back, devoid of a root, and devoid of a heart. Simultaneously, due to the absence of conceptual distinctions, the non-conceptual arises from that.

Verse 6

tanū deśe śūnyataiva kṣaṇa mātraṁvibhāvayet | nirvikalpaṁnirvikalpo nirvikalpa svarūpa bhāk || 46 ||

AI Translation

One should contemplate only emptiness in the region of the body, even for a moment. The one who is undifferentiated (from mental constructs) becomes partaker of the nature of the undifferentiated (reality), which is itself undifferentiated.

Verse 7

sarvaṁdeha gataṁdravyaṁviyad vyāptaṁmṛgekṣaṇe | vibhāvayet tatas tasya bhāvanā sā sthirā bhavet || 47 ||

AI Translation

O deer-eyed one, one should contemplate that all the substance situated within the body is pervaded by space. Thereafter, that contemplation of his will become firm.

Verse 8

dehāntare tvag vibhāgam bhitti bhūtaṁvicintayet | na kiñcid antare tasya dhyāyan na dhyeya bhāg bhavet || 48 ||

AI Translation

One should contemplate the skin layer within the body as a wall. Meditating that there is nothing inside it, one attains the object of meditation.

Verse 9

hṛdyākāśe nilīnākṣaḥpadma sampuṭa madhya gaḥ | ananya cetāḥsubhage paraṁsaubhāgyam āpnuyāt || 49 ||

AI Translation

O fortunate one, one who, with eyes absorbed in the space of the heart, is situated in the midst of the folded lotus, and whose mind is undivided, attains supreme felicity.

Verse 10

sarvataḥsvaśarīrasya dvādaśānte manolayāt | dṛḍha buddher dṛḍhī bhūtaṁtattva lakṣyam pravartate || 50 ||

AI Translation

For one with a firm intellect, through the complete absorption of the mind everywhere within one's body, particularly at the dvādaśānta (the subtle point twelve finger-breadths beyond the body), the firmly established goal of truth manifests.