Dashak 10 · Samāsa 6

Utpatti, sthiti, samhāra — the dealing has been explained. / Paramātmā, nirguṇa, nirākāra — as-it-is.

Becoming, proceeding, going — there is no connection to that. / Beginning, middle, end — [That] is always pervading.

Para-brahma is always-being; in the middle this bhrama (delusion) appears. / It appears — yet all perishes — over time.

Utpatti-sthiti-samhāra — within it, continuously happening-going; / ahead, at last, kalpānta — for all.

He who has vivek in this — he already knows. / He sees by sāra-asāra-vicāra — therefore.

Many deluded have gathered; among them, what do the awakened do? / Among creation, awakened ones — are few.

Of those awakened, the mark — let me explain. / More special than Brahmā — the mahāpuruṣa.

He for whom bhrama is not — recognize him in the mind. / Now hear about bhrama — as it will be explained.

One para-brahma pervades; it has never been transformed. / What appeared apart from That — is bhrama-form.

What has been called kalpānta, tri-guṇa, pañca-bhūta — / all of this altogether — is bhrama-form.

'I, you' is bhrama; upāsanā too is bhrama; / the Īśvara-bhāva too is bhrama — with certainty.

[Śloka: bhrameṇāham bhrameṇa tvam bhrameṇopāsakā janāḥ | bhrameṇeśvara-bhāvatvam bhrama-mūlam idam jagat ||] / [By delusion I, by delusion you, by delusion people are worshippers; / by delusion Īśvara-hood — this world is delusion-rooted.]

For this reason, sṛṣṭi appears; but all this is just bhrama. / Of these, those who are vicāra-bearing — they alone are blessed.

Now the consideration of bhrama — most clearly done. / Through dṛṣṭānta, we shall expound — for the listeners.

In wandering through distant lands, one's direction-sense is lost; / or, losing recognition of kin — this is called bhrama.

Or an intoxicant was consumed; by that, many appeared. / Or afflicted by various agonies, possessed by ghost — that is bhrama.

In a daśāvatāra-play, it seems a woman; or that play was set up. / Useless doubt arises within — this is called bhrama.

Setting down a thing, then forgetting; or on the way, losing the way; / bewildered in a town — this is called bhrama.

The thing being with oneself, 'it is gone' — becomes agitated. / Forgetting oneself — this is called bhrama.

Forgetting some object; or forgetting what was learned; / in dream-sorrow, becoming panicked — this is called bhrama.

Inauspicious signs or omens; from false talk the mind breaks; / dreading on seeing an object — this is called bhrama.

Seeing a tree-trunk, the mind feels a ghost has come. / Though nothing is, startling — this is called bhrama. / Seeing [own reflection in] glass, one falls into water; or seeing assembly, pounces into a mirror. / Missing the doorway, going in the wrong direction — this is called bhrama.

One thing existing, another imagined; one said, another understood; / one seen, another arising — this is called bhrama.

'Now whatever is given, that is attained later; / a dead person will come for meal' — this is called bhrama.

'What is in this birth, that in next birth — I will attain something'; / affection entangled in a person's name — this is called bhrama.

A dead person comes in dream; asks for something; / fixed firmly in mind — this is called bhrama.

Saying 'all is mithyā,' yet mind follows the powerful; / knowers being crushed by wealth — this is called bhrama.

By ritualism, jñāna is polluted; or by knower-pride, one forcibly falls; / one goes beyond some limit — this is called bhrama.

Deha-abhimāna, karma-abhimāna, jāti-abhimāna, kula-abhimāna, / jñāna-abhimāna, mokṣa-abhimāna — these are called bhrama.

Injustice is not understood; by injustice done, one is harmed; / uselessly ruffled by pride — this is called bhrama.

The past is not remembered; the future is not foreseen; / continuously mounted on inference — this is called bhrama.

Taking medicine without pratīti; observing regimen without pratīti; / telling jñāna without pratīti — this is called bhrama.

Prayoga without phala-śruti; mere yoga without jñāna; / uselessly enjoying enjoyment through the body — this is called bhrama.

'Brahmā writes the destiny; Saṭī reads it away' — / such-type talk — this is called bhrama.

Much bhrama is forgotten; spread among the ignorant. / In brief pointers it is told — for the sake of knowing.

Bhrama-form is the universe by svabhāva; there what should be said? / Apart from nirguṇa Brahma, all — is bhrama-form.

'The jñātā has no samsāra' — so many say endlessly. / The miracles of a departed jñātā — this is called bhrama.

Here a doubt arose: the samādhi of a jñātā was worshipped; / there has some pratīti come — or not?

Likewise those avatāras are finished; their power still operates widely. / So how are they entangled — with vāsanā?

Such a doubt has arisen; the Samartha should resolve it. / By this much, the tale of bhrama is finished.