Verses on Sāṃkhya 60
Māṭharavṛtti 60
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- Sanskrit
60.1
kiñ cānyat ---
Moreover:
60.2
raṅgasya darśayitvā nivartate nartakī yathā nṛtyāt /
puruṣasya tathātmānaṃ prakāśya vinivartate prakṛtiḥ //
Just as a dancer desists from dancing after exhibiting herself to the audience, / so nature desists after revealing herself to the spirit. //
60.3
yathā nartakī śṛṅgārādirasair hāvabhāvaiś ca nibaddhagītavāditranṛtyāni raṅgasya darśayitvā kṛtakāryā nṛtyān nivartate | evaṃ prakṛtir mahadahaṅkāratanmātrendriyabhūtabhāvena devamānuṣatiryagrūpāsu yoniṣu sukhaduḥkhamohākṛtiḥ śāntaghoramūḍhaviṣayā satī ātmānaṃ puruṣasya prakāśya nivartate | tasyāṃ ca nivṛttāyām asau kevalaḥ puruṣo duḥkhatrayaṃ nānubhavati | yathā jalavāhakasya ghaṭābhāve tadādheyasyodakasyābhāvaḥ | tathā duḥkhābhāvaḥ | tato 'sau mokṣaṃ gacchati //
Just as a dancer, having exhibited to the audience dances accompanied by song and instrumental music composed with the aesthetic flavours such as the erotic and with gestures and sentiments, desists from dancing, having accomplished her task; so nature, in the form of intellect, egoity, subtle elements, sense faculties, and gross elements, (p. 54) in the wombs of gods, humans, and animals, having the forms of pleasure, suffering, and delusion, having tranquil, terrible, and deluded objects, having revealed herself to the spirit, desists. And when she has desisted, this isolated spirit does not experience the threefold suffering. Just as for a water-bearer, when there is an absence of the pot, there is an absence of the water contained in it, so there is an absence of suffering. Then he attains liberation.
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