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+ ~l-+
+ (F6lPTl4l!4P +
|| Hastmalakyabhyam ||


4|FP-l6 4 tB4 |4l6 9PltP|+
6 4-( |+t4|4l+Pl+-(P=P-44P +
yasminjte bhavetsarva vijta paramtmani |
ta vande nityavijnamnandamajamavyayam ||
I salute the Supreme Self who is timeless consciousness,
limitless, unborn and imperishable, whom when known,
everything is as well known. (i)
4(l+l( ( 6 l6 4|FP|46 6
= B9 4(t4-6 6 4-( 9 69l PP +
yadajndabhddvaita jte yasminnivartate |
rajjusarpavadatyanta ta vande puruottamam ||
I salute that Supreme Self from ignorance of whom there
is duality and whom when known [the notion of] duality
ceases completely, like a rope-snake [in the wake of
knowledge of the rope] (ii)
4F4l 9( 7l(l|t4l |(ltPl +- 9TlH6
+P- BJ 4 6FP F4l|4Hl\4l-6l+4
yasyopadeaddhity cidtm na prakate |
nama sadgurave tasmai svvidydhvntabhnave |

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Salutations to the sadguru, who is like the sun to the darkness
of Self ignorance, by the light of whose teaching the Self which
is pure consciousness shines for us. (iii)
( |( B4 F4 =-6l - B G P 4l -G P Pl 4l6 |6 F4B6 94
B Gl 9l|(tBl-G|=(lB 46- 6 4- T|6 9 '4l|6H4Hll
H474l|4-Gl|4+l 6t4l(|+t4t4l |494= B G -GP 4 |6 lt4l 4 +
BBl+ltB Bllx4lB|t4-6 |4746 |4 B Bl(l+l 466
B BlF4 HltPF4-9l9|l+T 6t4l6 HltPl+l|4 |||6 6
9t4ltPl+Pll4 79|(H|6
iha hi sarvasya janto sukha me bhyddukha me m bhyt iti
svarasata eva sukhopditsdukhajihse bhavata | tatra ya kacit
puytiayal avayambhvidukhvinbhtatvdanityatvcca viayaja
sukha dukhameveti jtv yatnena
sasdhantsasrttyaktsaktiratyanta virajyate | viraktaca
sasrahnau yatate | sasrasya ca tmasvarpparijnaktatvt
tmajnnnivttiriti ta pratytmajnamcrya upadiati
Let me be happy and let me not suffer. Here, [in this world] every
person naturally has a desire to gain happiness and to remove
sorrow. Regarding this, some one person, endowed with
tremendous merit (puya), having realized that happiness born of
sense objects is suffering alone because it is inseparably connected to
the inevitable suffering that follows and because it is time-bound, he,
with effort, having renounced attachments (tyaktsakti, completely
turns his back on transmigratory existence (sasra) along with its
means. And one who has dispassion (virakta)strives to eliminate
sasra. Because sasra is caused by an incomplete understanding
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of the nature of the Self, Self knowledge is the means for its cessation;
thus, the teacher teaches Self knowledge to him
|+|P P+ l|(94l
|+F6l|Gl 9l|lTlHT-9-
|4l T 7l|+|P 4l 4-
B |+t4l 9|-F4-9l 5(PltPl+ {+
nimitta manacakurdipravttau
nirastkhilopdhirkakalpa |
ravirlokacenimitta yath ya
sa nityopalabdhisvarpo'hamtm || 1 ||
Just as in the wake of the sun all activities in the world
take place, so too in the presence of the Self, which, like
space, is completely free of all conditioning adjuncts, the
mind and the senses function. I am that Self whose nature
is timeless consciousness. (1)

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|4+l F6 |6+PFTll 946 Pl+l 5|H7t4l6 H+l(Tl44+- 9B74 6 |6 6
+; F6 |6+PFTl4lN |4\4l6 ||4l |( F6 |6+PFTll Tl|4Tl 4l|Tl
Pl+|BTl |6 6 Tl|4T4l|T4l l45|9 9P|H7t4l(ll4 F4 -F4
H|4 + 9|BPl8 Pl+|BTl F6 |6+PFTll4Tl (4Pll4 t4446 ;
4|tT |( 66