Shat-cakra-nirupana (the six bodily centres)

by Arthur Avalon | 1919 | 46,735 words | ISBN-10: 8178223783 | ISBN-13: 9788178223780

This is the English translation of the Shat-cakra-nirupana, or “description of the six centres”, representing an ancient book on yoga written in the 16th century by Purnananda from Bengal. This book investigates the six bodily centres famously known as Chakras. The text however actually forms the sixth chapter of the Shri-tattva-cintamani, compiled...

Verse 55

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 55:

योऽधीते निशि संध्ययोरथे दिवा योगी स्वभावस्थितो मोक्षज्ञाननिदानमेतदमलं शुद्धं च गुप्तं परं ।
श्रीमच्छ्रीगुरुपादपद्मयुगलालम्बी यतान्तर्मनास्तस्यवश्यमभीष्टदैवतपदे चेतो नरीनृत्यते ॥ ५५ ॥

yo'dhīte niśi saṃdhyayorathe divā yogī svabhāvasthito mokṣajñānanidānametadamalaṃ śuddhaṃ ca guptaṃ paraṃ |
śrīmacchrīgurupādapadmayugalālambī yatāntarmanāstasyavaśyamabhīṣṭadaivatapade ceto narīnṛtyate || 55 ||

If the Yogī who is devoted to the Lotus Feet of his Guru, with heart unperturbed and concentrated mind, reads this work which is the supreme source of the knowledge of Liberation, and which is faultless, pure, and most secret, then of a very surety his mind[1] dances at the Feet of his Iṣṭa-devatā.

Commentary by Śrī-Kālīcaraṇa:

He here speaks of the good to be gained by the study of the verses relating to the six Cakras.

Heart unperturbed” (Svabhāva-sthita [sthitaḥ]).—i.e., engrossed in his own true spiritual being.

Concentrated mind” (Yatāntarmanāḥ)—i.e., he who by practice of Yoga has steadied and concentrated his mind on the inner spirit (Antarātmā).

The rest is clear.

Here ends the Eighth Section of the Explanation of the Verses descriptive of the Six Cakras, forming part of the Śrītattva-cintāmaṇī, composed by Śrī-Pūrṇānandayati. 

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Cetas or Citta.

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