VIGYAN BHAIRAV
TANTRA
―ヴィギャン・バイラーヴ・タントラ―
Devi
asks: デヴィは尋ねた。 Shiva replies: シヴァは答えた。 1.
Radiant one, this experience may dawn
between two breaths. After breath comes in and just before turning up -
the beneficence. 2.
As breath turns from down to
up, and again as breath curves from up to down - through both these turns,
realize. 3.
Or, whenever in-breath and
out-breath fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less, energy-filled center. 4.
Or, when breath is all out and stopped of
itself, or all in and stopped - in such universal pause, one’s small self
vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure. 5.
Attention between eyebrows, let mind be
before thought. Let form fill with breath essence to the top of the
head and there shower as light. 6.
When in worldly activity, keep
attention between two breaths, and so practicing, in a few days be born anew. 7.
With intangible breath in
center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have
direction over dreams and over death itself. 8.
With utmost devotion, center
on the two junctions of breath and know the knower. 9.
Lie down as dead. Enraged in wrath,
stay so. Or stare without moving an eyelash. Or such something
and become the sucking. 10.
While being caressed, Sweet
Princess, enter the caress as everlasting life. 11.
Stop the doors of the senses when feeling
the creeping of an ant. Then. 12.
When on a bed or a seat, let
yourself become weightless, beyond mind. 13.
Or, imagine the five-colored circles of
the peacock tail to be your five senses in illimitable space. Now let
their beauty melt within. Similarly, at any point in space or on a wall
- until the point dissolves. Then your wish for another comes true. 14.
Place your whole attention in the nerve,
delicate as the lotus thread, in the center of your spinal column. In
such be transformed. 15.
Closing the seven openings of
the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all inclusive. 16.
Blessed one, as senses are
absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the lotus. 17.
Unminding mind, keep in the
middle - until. 18.
Look lovingly at some object. Do not
go to another object. Here in the middle of the object - the blessing. 19.
Without support for feet or hands, sit
only on the buttocks. Suddenly, the centering. 20.
In a moving vehicle, by rhythmically
swaying, experience. Or in a still vehicle, by letting yourself swing
in slowing invisible circles. 21.
Pierce some part of your
nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing and attain to
the inner purity. 22.
Let attention be at a place
where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its
present characteristics, is transformed. 23.
Feel an object before you. Feel the
absence of all other objects but this one. Then, leaving aside the
object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize. 24.
When a mood against someone or
for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain
centered. 25.
Just as you have the impulse
to do something, stop. 26.
When some desire comes, consider it.
Then, suddenly quit it. 27.
Roam around until exhausted
and then, dropping to the ground, in this dropping be whole. 28.
Suppose you are gradually being deprived
of strength or of knowledge. At the instant of deprivation, transcend. 29.
Devotion frees. 30.
Eyes closed, see your inner being in
detail. Thus see your true nature. 31.
Look upon a bowl without seeing the sides
or the material. In a few moments become aware. 32.
See as if for the first time a
beauteous person or an ordinary object. 33.
Simply by looking into the
blue sky beyond clouds, the serenity. 34.
Listen while the ultimate mystical
teaching is imparted. Eyes still, without blinking, at once become
absolutely free. 35.
At the edge of a deep well
look steadily into its depth until - the wondrousness. 36.
Look upon some object, then slowly
withdraw your sight from it, then slowly withdraw your thought from it.
Then. 37.
Devi, imagine the Sanskrit letters in
these honey-filled foci of awareness, first as letters, then more subtly as
sounds, then as most subtle feeling. Then, leaving them aside, be free. 38.
Bathe in the center of sound, as in the
continuous sound of a waterfall. Or, by putting the fingers in the
ears, hear the sound of sounds. 39.
Intone a sound, as AUM, slowly. As
sound enters soundfulness, so do you. 40.
In the beginning and gradual
refinement of the sound of any letter, awake. 41.
While listening to stringed
instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence. 42.
Intone a sound audibly, then
less and less audibly as feeling deepens into this silent harmony. 43.
With mouth slightly open, keep mind in the
middle of the tongue. Or, as breath comes silently in, feel the sound
"HH". 44.
Center on the sound
"AUM" without any "A" or "M". 45.
Silently intone a word ending in
"AH". Then in the "HH", effortlessly, the
spontaneity. 46.
Stopping ears by pressing and
the rectum by contracting, enter the sound. 47.
Enter the sound of your name
and, through this sound, all sounds. 48.
At the start of sexual union
keep attentive on the fire in the beginning, and so continuing, avoid the
embers in the end. 49.
When in such embrace your
senses are shaken as leaves, enter this shaking. 50.
Even remembering union, without
the embrace, transformation. 51.
On joyously seeing a
ling-absent friend, permeate this joy. 52.
When eating or drinking,
become the taste of food or drink, and be filled. 53.
O lotus-eyed one, sweet of
touch, when singing, seeing, tasting, be aware you are and discover the
ever-living. 54.
Wherever satisfaction is found,
in whatever act, actualize this. 55.
At the point of sleep, when
the sleep has not yet come and the external wakefulness vanishes, at this
point Being is revealed. 56.
Illusions deceive, colors
circumscribe, even divisibles are indivisible. 57.
In moods of extreme desire, be
undisturbed. 58.
This so-called universe appears as a juggling,
a picture show. To be happy, look upon it so. 59.
O Beloved, put attention
neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between these. 60.
Objects and desires exist in me as in
others. So accepting, let them be transformed. 61.
As waves come with water and
flames with fire, so the Universal waves with us. 62.
Wherever your mind is
wandering, internally or externally, at this very place, this. 63.
When vividly aware through
some particular sense, keep in the awareness. 64.
At the start of sneezing,
during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme
curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be
uninterruptedly aware. 65.
The purity of other teachings is an
impurity to us. In reality, know nothing as pure or pure. 66.
Be the unsame same to friend
as to stranger, in honor and dishonor. 67.
Here is the sphere of change, change,
change. Through change consume change. 68.
As a hen mothers her chicks,
mother particular knowings, particular doings, in reality. 69.
Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are
relative, these words are only for those terrified of the universe.
This universe is a reflection of minds. As you see many suns in water
from one sun, so see bondage and liberation. 70.
Consider your essence as light
rays from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises “livingness” in
you. 71.
Or in the spaces between, feel
this as lightening. 72.
Feel the cosmos as a
translucent ever-living presence. 73.
In summer when you see the entire
sky endlessly clear, enter such clarity. 74.
Shakti, see all space as if
already absorbed in your head in the brilliance. 75.
Waking, sleeping, dreaming,
know you as light. 76.
In rain during a black night,
enter that blackness as the form of forms. 77.
When a moonless black night is not
present, close eyes and find blackness before you. Opening eyes, see
blackness. So faults disappear forever. 78.
Wherever your attention
alights, at this very point, experience. 79.
Focus on fire rising through
your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes but not you. 80.
Meditate on the make-believe
world as burning to ashes, and become being above human. 81.
As, subjectively, letters flow
into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into
worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our
being. 82.
Feel: my thought, I-ness, internal
organs - me. 83.
Before desire and before knowing, how can
I say I am? Consider. Dissolve in the beauty. 84.
Toss attachment for body aside, realizing
I am everywhere. One who is everyone is joyous. 85.
Thinking no thing will
limited-self unlimit. 86.
Suppose you contemplate
something beyond conception, beyond grasping, beyond not being - you. 87.
I am existing. This is mine.
This is this. O beloved, even in such know illimitably. 88.
Each thing is perceived through
knowing. The self shines in space through knowing. Perceive one
being as knower and known. 89.
Beloved, at this moment let
mind, knowing, breath, form, be included. 90.
Touching eyeballs as a
feather, lightness between them opens into heart and there permeates the
cosmos. 91.
Kind Devi, enter etheric
presence pervading far above and below your form. 92.
Put mindstuff in such
inexpressible fineness above, below and in your heart. 93.
Consider any area of your
present form as limitlessly spacious. 94.
Feel your substance, bones,
flesh, blood, saturated with the cosmic essence. 95.
Feel the fine qualities of
creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations. 96.
Abide in some place endlessly spacious,
clear of trees, hills, habitations. Thence comes the end of mind
pressure. 97.
Consider the plenum to be your
own body of bliss. 98.
In any easy position gradually
pervade an area between the armpits into great peace. 99.
Feel yourself as pervading all
directions, far. 100. The appreciation of objects and subjects is the same for an
enlightened as for an unenlightened person. The former has one
greatness: he remains in the subjective mood, not lost in things. 101. Believe omniscient, omnipotent, pervading. 102. Imagine spirit simultaneously within and around you
until the entire universe spiritualizes. 103. With your entire consciousness in the very start of
desire, of knowing, know. 104. O Shakti, each particular perception is limited,
disappearing in omnipotence. 105. In truth forms are inseparate. Inseparate are omnipresent
being and your own form. Realize each as made of this consciousness. 106. Feel the consciousness of each person as your own
consciousness. So, leaving aside concern for self, become each being. 107. This consciousness exists as each being, and nothing
else exists. 108. This consciousness is the spirit of guidance of each one. Be
this one. 109. Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with
walls of skin - empty. 110. Gracious one, play. The universe is an empty shell wherein
your mind frolics infinitely. 111. Sweet-hearted one, meditate on knowing and not-knowing, existing
and not existing. Then leave both aside that you may be. 112. Enter space, supportless, eternal, still. |
Original
transcription & English translation by Paul Reps
Japanese translation: © Plavan N. Go
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