Dashak 15 · Samāsa 10

In the sky everything happens-and-goes; nothing lasts like the sky. / In the niścala, cañcala — by the same logic.

Darkness packs forcibly; seems the sky became black; / by sun-rays it seems yellow — soon.

When abundant cold falls, seems the sky became cold; / dried by hot blazing — so it seems.

Whatever seemed — happened and went. / Lasted like the sky — does not happen.

The excellent-knowing kind — examine leisurely. / Nirābhāsa is ākāśa — appearance is mithyā.

Water spreads, wind spreads, Ātman extremely spreads; / tattva upon tattva all spreads — within.

What moves and what moves not — all is known within; / by examination it clears — for every creature.

Examining-examining, at last — unbroken meeting at nivṛtti-pada; / on occurrence, break — does not happen.

Where jñāna becomes vijñāna; and mind becomes unmana; / in tattva-destruction, ananya — happens by vivek.

Examining the elder — the cañcala became niścala; / Deva-bhakta-hood went — in that place.

Saying 'locus' there is no object; no object at all at root; / we speak somehow — for the sake of knowing.

Ajñāna-śakti was dispelled; jñāna-śakti set; / by vṛtti-śūnya how became — see the state.

Chief śakti-pāta is such; no whirl of cañcala; / calm within calm, how — nirvikārī.

The vikāras of cañcala go awry; cañcala itself where it dries up; / cañcala becoming niścala dense — does not happen.

Consideration of the Mahāvākya — there the samnyāsī has adhikāra; / the man of divine grace — he too examines-and-sees.

Samnyāsī means ṣaḍ-nyāsī (six-renouncer); the vicāra-vant is all-samnyāsī; / one's own doing to oneself — with certainty.

When jagadīśa is inclined — there who makes inference? / So let it be — the vicāra-wants know.

Those who are vicāra-wants understood — they went niḥsanga; / those who remained deha-abhimāni — protect body-pride.

In the lakṣya the alakṣya sat; the pūrva-pakṣa flew off; / hetu-form antara-sākṣī — he too set.

Sky and pātāla — two names, firmament; / on removing dṛśya, the restlessness — became unbroken.

That itself is unbroken; mind targets upādhi and sees; / by upādhi-nirāsa, what endures — the word, how?

Beyond words, beyond kalpanā; manas-buddhi inaccessible; / by vicāra see vicāra — within.

Seeing, seeing, it is known; what is known goes in vain. / How can the difficult be told — in what manner?

Vākya-artha, vācyāmśa was searched; in the alakṣya, lakṣyāmśa sank; / ahead, understanding, should speak — someone.

He who went searching the eternal — became a jñānī of truth. / Abandoning vikāra, joined — in the nirvikārī.

Saw an abundance of bad-dreams; on waking became false. / Again if remembered — it is mithyā.

By prārabdha-yoga, body exists; exists or perishes; / consideration sits within — unshaken like this.

A roasted seed — its growing stopped. / To the jñātā so — the vāsanā-seed.

By vicāra, the buddhi became niścala; with buddhi, task-success; / on examining, the elder's buddhi — went into niścala.

He who contemplates niścala, becomes niścala; who contemplates cañcala, becomes cañcala; / who contemplates bhūta — purely becomes bhūta.

He who has reached to the end — nothing does this to him; / antara-niṣṭhā juggling — such is māyā.

'It is mithyā' — such came to be known; by vicāra it became firm; / all fear flew off — suddenly.

Upāsanā should grow; bhakta-people should grow; / within, by vivek, should understand — everything.