Devishataka 87_61

87_61

(Written in the gomūtrikā-bandha pattern, with linked yamaka.)
O Devī, that mind which through your activity—through the action characterized by hearing, contemplating, studying, and restraining the senses, etc. For this alone is the activity of the Lady of Speech; as it is said: 'One should cause the group of senses situated outside to cease in the mind; having cast the mind into purity, that intellect rests in the realm of knowledge; or one should perform spiritual action with the contemplation of knowledge.' Hence, that mind which is expanded—blossomed—by that activity and attentive—careful, restrained—and therefore possesses noble wealth, imperishable supreme riches; that mind, characterized by joy, attains—reaches—the nectar of sound, the nectar of the word, from its abode, from the seat of light characterized by liberation. The meaning is that it gains the dawn of the Word-Brahman. As is said: 'The single syllable Oṃ is Brahman.' And likewise in the Upaniṣads: 'This syllable alone is Brahman, this syllable alone is the supreme; having known this syllable alone, whatever one desires is his.' This is the gomūtrikā-bandha and yamaka. The diagram, however, has already been shown once. (87)