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Be gracious, Supreme Lord! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.9) tvanmāyayā jagatsarvaṃ sṛṣṭaṃ trātaṃ hataṃ tathā / tvaṃ bhūstvamāpastvaṃ vahnistvaṃ vāyustvaṃ nabhaḥ śaśī // > By your divine power the entire universe is created, preserved, and likewise destroyed. / You are the earth, you are water, you are fire, you are wind, you are space, you are the moon; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.10) ravistvaṃ paramātmā tvaṃ guṇāstvaṃ prakṛtistathā / puruṣastvaṃ manastvaṃ ca buddhiścittamahaṃkṛtiḥ // > you are the sun, you are the Supreme Self, you are the qualities, and likewise primordial matter; / you are the spirit, you are the mind, and you are intellect, thought, and egoity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.11) rasāyanaṃ ca sakalamākhyātuṃ ca savistaram / ājñāpayāhaṃ yadi te hṛdyā prāṇapriyā vibho // > Command \[me\] to tell the whole rejuvenation therapy in full detail, / if I am dear to your heart and beloved as your life's breath, O all-pervading lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.12) jīvanmuktiḥ kathaṃ nātha yogarūpaṃ ca kīdṛśam / anugṛhṇīṣva deveśa sukhopāyaṃ bhavāpaham // > How is liberation while living \[attained\], O Lord, and what is the nature of yoga? / Favor me, Lord of gods, with the easy means that removes mundane existence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.13) śrutvā stutiṃ smitamukho bhairavaḥ parayā mudā / uvāca devīṃ kalyāṇīṃ parvatādhipanandinīm // > Having heard the hymn of praise, Bhairava, with a smiling face and supreme joy, / spoke to the auspicious goddess, the daughter of the king of mountains: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.14) śrībhairavaḥ / sādhu sādhu mahāmāye sarvaṃ vetsi sanātane / tathāpi pṛcchasīśāni lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā // > Śrī Bhairava \[spoke\]: > Excellent, excellent, O Mahāmāyā! You know everything, eternal one. / Even so, you ask, O Sovereign Lady, out of a desire for the welfare of the worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.15) pravakṣyāmi samāsena sāvadhānaṃ śṛṇu priye / tvatto'nyā vallabhā kā me rahasyārthavibhāṣaṇe // > I will tell you concisely; listen attentively, beloved! / Who else besides you is dear to me for expounding secret truths? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.16) \ śṛṇu vakṣyāmi deveśi jīvanmuktasya lakṣaṇam / kāmaṃ krodhaṃ bhayaṃ lobhaṃ madaṃ mohaṃ ca matsaram // > Characteristics of One Liberated While Living > Listen, O Queen of the gods: I shall tell the characteristics of one liberated while living. / Passion, anger, fear, greed, arrogance, delusion, envy, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.17) mānaṃ lajjāṃ kulaṃ śīlaṃ kutsāṃ dambhaṃ ca vañcanām / avidyāṃ jaḍatāṃ garvaṃ śītamuṣṇaṃ tathātapam // > pride, shame, lineage, moral conduct, reproach, deceit, fraudulence, / ignorance, inertia, conceit, cold, heat, and sunshine, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.18) vātaṃ sukhaṃ ca duḥkhaṃ ca pāpaṃ puṇyaṃ hitāhitam / tāpatrayaṃ putramitrakalatrādīni yastyajet // > wind, pleasure, pain, sin, religious merit, beneficial and harmful things, / the threefold afflictions, sons, friends, wives, and the like—he who abandons \[all these\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.19) na saktaḥ sarvaviṣaye tattvacintāparāyaṇaḥ / padmapatram ivāmbhobhir nirliptahṛdayo bhavet // > who is not attached to any sense-objects, who is intent on the contemplation of reality, / whose heart remains unstained like a lotus leaf by water, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.20) maitrīkṛtātaṭopekṣāmadaitair maṇḍitāśayaḥ / aihikāmuṣmikasukhaprāptikāryāviraktadhīḥ // > whose disposition is adorned with friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity, / whose mind is detached from the pursuit of attaining worldly and other-worldly pleasures, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.21) nityānityavivekajño hyantaḥkaraṇanigrahaḥ / jarāmaraṇahīnaśca śivasāmarasātmavān // > who discerns between the eternal and the non-eternal, who restrains the internal organ, / who is free from senescence and death, and possesses the essential nature of equality with Śiva— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.22) jīvanmuktaḥ sa vijñeyastīrṇasaṃsārasāgaraḥ / devadaityādibhirvandyaḥ sa sevyaḥ sa guruḥ śivaḥ // > he is to be known as liberated while living, one who has crossed the ocean of transmigration. / He is worshipful to gods, demons, and others; he is to be served; he is the guru; he is Śiva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.23) yathāhaṃ sarvalokeṣu pūjanīyo maheśvari / tathāsau sarvalokeṣu sarvaiḥ sampūjyate sadā // > Just as I am to be worshipped in all worlds, O Maheśvarī, / so is he always worshipped completely by all in all worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.24) dehānteṣu tu muktiryā prāṇināṃ sāprayojanā / dehānte dehinaḥ sarve muktiṃ yānti na saṃśayaḥ // > However, that liberation which comes to living beings at the end of the body is of no use: / at the end of the body, all embodied beings attain liberation—there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.25) bhagasaṃdrāvaṇānmuktir bhavecced gardabhādayaḥ / pakṣiṇo vṛṣabhā meṣāḥ kiṃ muktāstripurāmbike // > If liberation were to come from liquefying the female organ, / would donkeys and the like, birds, bulls, and rams not be liberated, O mother of Tripura? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.26) retoviṇmūtrasevāyāṃ yadi muktirbhavetpriye / kapiśca sūkarādyāśca kathaṃ muktā bhavanti te // > If liberation were to come from consuming semen, feces, and urine, my dear, / then why would monkeys, pigs, and others not be liberated? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.27) na kevalāmaratvācca na śivatvādbhavettathā / taddvayor melanācca syājjīvanmuktiriyaṃ smṛtā // > It does not arise merely from immortality, nor does it arise \[merely\] from Śiva-hood; / it arises from the union of both: this is considered liberation while living. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.28) sarvasminsamaye śāstre muktirastyantakālajā / na dṛśyate karāntasthamaṇivatsā ca śāmbhavi // > In every tradition and scripture, liberation exists at the time of death; / but it is not seen like a gem resting in the hand, O Śāmbhavī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.29) atigopyamavācyaṃ yaddevānāmapi durlabham / kathayiṣyāmi deveśi dehasthairyaṃ sadātanam // > That which is exceedingly secret, ineffable, and hard to attain even for gods, / I shall tell you, O Queen of gods: the permanent stability of the body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.30) \ śivatvaṃ khecaratvaṃ ca sarvasiddhipradaṃ śubham / dehaṃ vinā na kiṃcit syāddeho'yaṃ sarvasādhanam // > Means to Attain Bodily Stability that Produces Liberation While Living; Perfection in Yoga > Śiva-hood and aerial locomotion, auspicious and bestowing all alchemical perfections, / cannot exist without a body; this body is the instrument for everything. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.31) tasmāddehaṃ prayatnena rakṣayetsarvataḥ sadā / dehapāte dharmanāśo dharmanāśe kriyācyutiḥ // > Therefore, one should always protect the body with effort from every \[harm\]. / When the body falls, righteousness is destroyed; when righteousness is destroyed, ritual action is lost; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.32) kriyācyutau kuto yogo yogabhraṃśe na cidbhavet / cidabhāve kuto mokṣo mokṣe bhraṣṭe na kiṃcana // > when ritual action is lost, whence yoga? When fallen from yoga, consciousness does not arise; / when consciousness is absent, whence liberation? When liberation is lost, nothing \[remains\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.33) anyopāyaśatenāpi na deho dhāryate sadā / pāradaḥ pavanaśca syātsarvasiddhida uttamaḥ // > Even by hundreds of other means, the body is not preserved forever; / mercury and breath are the supreme bestowers of all alchemical perfections. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.34) saṃmūrchitau mṛtau baddhāvubhau pavanapāradau / kramādrogaharau nityaṃ mṛtyughnau khecarapradau // > Both breath and mercury, when swooned, dead, and bound, / constantly remove disease, conquer death, and bestow aerial locomotion, in that order. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.35) rasaḥ pūrvaṃ mayā khyāto'dhunā vāyuḥ praśasyate / vāyoḥ saṃdhāraṇājjñānaṃ jñānānmokṣaḥ prajāyate // > Mercury was taught by me previously; now breath is praised. / From the retention of breath, knowledge arises; from knowledge, liberation is born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.36) sarveṣāṃ dehamūlaṃ syāttatsthairye pavanaḥ prabhuḥ / parasmādakṣarāttasmādākāśaṃ samabhūttataḥ // > The body is the root of everything; in making it stable, breath is sovereign. / From that supreme Imperishable \[Brahman\], space arose; from that, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.37) vāyustasmācca dahanastasmādāpastato mahī / eteṣāṃ pañcabhūtānāmakṣaraṃ kāraṇaṃ param // > wind \[arose\]; from that, fire; from that, water; then the earth. / Of these five elements, the Imperishable is the ultimate cause. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.38) vyoma śabdātmakaṃ vāyuḥ śabdasparśātmako bhavet / vahniḥ śabdasparśarūpamayaḥ salilamucyate // > Space has the nature of sound; wind has the nature of sound and touch; / fire consists of sound, touch, and form; water is said to be > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.39) śabdarūpasparśarasātmakaṃ bhūmirviśeṣataḥ / śabdarūparasasparśagandharūpā bhavet priye // > composed of sound, form, touch, and taste; and earth, in particular, / has the nature of sound, form, taste, touch, and smell, my dear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.40) bhūvāyvagnyanilākāśādhiṣṭhātryaścaiva devatāḥ / brahmā viṣṇuśca rudraśca maheśvarasadāśivau // > And the presiding deities of earth, wind, fire, air, and space / are Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Maheśvara, and Sadāśiva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.41) bhūmir naṣṭāmbusaṃmagnā tāśca grastā mahāgninā / sa ca caṇḍasamīreṇa śamitaḥ so'pi pārvati // > The earth is destroyed and submerged in water, and that \[water\] is swallowed up by the great fire; / and that \[fire\] is extinguished by the fierce gale, and that \[wind\], O Pārvatī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.42) vyomni līnaḥ kramāt tasmād ākāśād udbhavanti te / antarbahiḥ sthitaṃ vyāptaṃ nirādhāraṃ nirāśrayam // > is dissolved successively into space; and from that space they \[all\] originate. / Residing inside and outside, all-pervading, supportless, resting on nothing— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.43) ākāśaṃ cetasā dhyāyan pracchindyād bhavabandhanam / jagatprāṇamayaṃ vāyuṃ cidānandapradaṃ jalam // > meditating upon space with the mind, one should sever the bondage of worldly existence. / \[Visualizing\] wind as consisting of universal life, and water as bestowing consciousness and bliss, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.44) niścalīkurute yuktyā vāyuvatsyātsa khecaraḥ / anantārkāgnisaṃdīptaṃ dahantaṃ jagatāṃ trayam // > he who immobilizes \[them\] through skillful practice becomes an aerial mover like the wind. / Meditating in his heart upon the radiant energy blazing like endless suns and fires, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.45) tejo dhyātvā svahṛdaye nāgninā sa tu bādhyate / sudhātaraṅganikaraplāvyamānamahītalam // > burning the three worlds, he is not afflicted by fire. / Contemplating in his heart the water-element > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.46) aptattvaṃ bhāvayan svānte vāri taṃ na hi bādhate / abhūtalacarākrāntaṃ bhūtalaṃ bhūtasaṃplavam // > inundating the surface of the earth with masses of nectar waves, water does not afflict him. / The surface of the earth pervaded by subterranean creatures, flooded with elements— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.47) hṛdaye bhāvayannityaṃ tasya no pārthivaṃ bhayam / yadyadbhāvayate citte tattadrūpam avāpnuyāt // > Meditating constantly upon it in his heart, he has no fear from the earthly element. / Whatever one contemplates in the mind, into that very form one is transformed, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.48) yathāgnitvaṃ vrajet kāṣṭhaḥ kīṭo bhramaratāṃ yathā / \ āsanaṃ prāṇaniyamaḥ pratyāhāraśca dhāraṇā // > just as wood attains the state of fire, or as an insect becomes a black bee. / \ / Posture, breath regulation, sensory withdrawal, and concentration, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.49) dhyānaṃ samādhiḥ ṣoḍhā syuryogāṅgāni krameṇa ca / \<1. āsanavidhiḥ\> caturaśītilakṣāṇi hyāsanāni bhavanti hi // > meditation, and absorption are the six limbs of yoga in succession. / \<1. Rules for Postures\> / There are indeed eighty-four hundred thousand postures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.50) teṣu mukhyāsane dve ca siddhapadmāsane smṛte / \ svayoniṃ pādamūlena caikena ghaṭayed dṛḍham // > Among them, two postures are considered foremost: siddhāsana and padmāsana. / \ / One should firmly press one's perineum with the base of one foot, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.51) anyaccaraṇamūlaṃ ca mehanopari vinyaset / avakrāṅgaḥ samāsīno vaśībhūtendriyaḥ priye // > and place the base of the other foot above the penis. / Sitting upright with an unbent body, having mastered the senses, O beloved, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.52) niścalākṣo bhruvormadhyaṃ paśyanniścalamānasaḥ / siddhāsanamidaṃ jñeyaṃ muktimārgapradāyakam // > with motionless eyes gazing between the eyebrows, with an unmoving mind— / this is to be known as siddhāsana, bestower of the path of liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.53) \ dakṣiṇorau padaṃ vāmaṃ vāmorau dakṣiṇaṃ padam / vinyasya karayugmena pṛṣṭhabhāgagatena ca // > \ / Placing the left foot upon the right thigh and the right foot upon the left thigh, / and reaching with both hands behind the back, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.54) viparītena cāṅguṣṭhaṃ vāmaṃ vāmakareṇa ca / dakṣiṇaṃ dakṣiṇenaiva dṛḍhaṃ dhṛtvā nijorasi // > one should firmly grasp the left big toe with the left hand, and the right with the right, crossed; / and resting the chin upon one's chest, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.55) vinyasya cubukaṃ dhyāyennāsāgraṃ saṃyatendriyaḥ / etatpadmāsanaṃ khyātaṃ sarvaroganibarhaṇam // > one should gaze at the tip of the nose, with senses restrained. / This is known as padmāsana, the destroyer of all diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.56) \<2. prāṇāyāmaḥ; ajapāmudrā\> ādhāraṃ tu gudasthāne caturdalasaroruham / vādisāntākṣaropetaṃ bālāruṇasamaprabham // > \<2. Prāṇāyāma; Ajapāmudrā\> / The ādhāra is at the region of the anus, a four-petaled lotus, / endowed with the letters from 'va' to 'sa', shining like the newly risen sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.57) svādhiṣṭhānaṃ ṣaḍdalābjaṃ bādilāntākṣarānvitam / vidyutprabhaṃ tato devi ratnābhaṃ maṇipūrakam // > The svādhiṣṭhāna is a six-petaled lotus, endowed with the letters from 'ba' to 'la', / flashing like lightning; then, O goddess, the maṇipūraka, shining like a gem, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.58) ḍādiphāntārṇasaṃyuktaṃ nābhau dalaśatātmakam / anāhataṃ suvarṇābhaṃ dvādaśacchadapaṅkajam // > endowed with the letters from 'ḍa' to 'pha', consisting of a hundred petals at the navel. / The anāhata shines like gold, a twelve-petaled lotus > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.59) hṛdaye kādiṭhāntārṇaṃ viśuddhistu praśasyate / ṣoḍaśāraṃ mahāpadmaṃ ṣoḍaśasvarabhūṣitam // > at the heart, endowed with the letters from 'ka' to 'ṭha'. The viśuddhi is praised / as a great lotus of sixteen spokes, adorned with the sixteen vowels. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.60) ājñācakraṃ dvayadalaṃ padmahastavirājitam / śvetamevaṃ kramāddevi ṣaṭcakraṃ samudāhṛtam // > The ājñācakra has two petals, radiant with its lotus-hands, / purely white; thus in sequence, O goddess, the six cakras are declared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.61) nābher adhastānmeḍhrasyopariṣṭāt kanda ucyate / vihaṃgamāṇḍasaṅkāśastatra nāḍīsamudbhavaḥ // > Below the navel and above the penis, the bulb is described, / resembling a bird's egg; from there the channels originate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.62) saptatidvisahasrāḥ syustāsu mukhyā daśa smṛtāḥ / iḍā ca prathamā nāḍī piṅgalā ca dvitīyakā // > They are seventy-two thousand, among which ten are taught as foremost: / iḍā is the first channel, and piṅgalā the second; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.63) suṣumnā ca tṛtīyā syādgāndhārī ca caturthikā / pañcamī hastijihvā syātṣaṣṭhī pūṣā tarasvinī // > suṣumnā is the third, and gāndhārī the fourth; / the fifth is hastijihvā, the sixth is swift pūṣā; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.64) saptamyalambuṣā nāḍī cāṣṭamī ca kuhūḥ smṛtā / navamī śaṅkhinī caiva daśamī ca krameṇa hi // > the seventh is the channel alambuṣā, and the eighth is taught as kuhū; / the ninth is śaṅkhinī, and the tenth \[is citriṇī\] in due order. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.65) etāstu prāṇavāhinyo vāyavastu japāḥ smṛtāḥ / prāṇāpānau tathā vyānodānau caiva samānakaḥ // > These carry the vital breaths, and the winds are traditionally known as the prayers: / prāṇa and apāna, as well as vyāna, udāna, and samāna, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.66) nāgaḥ kūrmaśca kṛkalo devadatto dhanañjayaḥ / sarveṣu nāḍīcakreṣu vartante daśa vāyavaḥ // > nāga, kūrma, kṛkala, devadatta, and dhanañjaya. / The ten winds reside in all the networks of channels. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.67) vāmadakṣiṇamārgābhyāmadha ūrdhvaṃ ca cañcalāḥ / prāṇāpānavaśo jīvaḥ pradhāvati na dṛśyate // > Restless, they move up and down through the left and right pathways. / Governed by prāṇa and apāna, the individual soul rushes forth unseen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.68) hastābhyāmāhato bhūmau kanduko na sthiro yathā / prāṇāpānaparikṣiptastathā jīvo'pi na sthiraḥ // > Just as a ball struck by hands upon the ground does not stay still, / so the individual soul, propelled by prāṇa and apāna, remains unstill. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.69) prāṇāpānasamākarṣe tathā prāṇamapānataḥ / bahirgacchaddhakāreṇa sakāreṇāntarāviśet // > When prāṇa pulls apāna, and likewise \[apāna pulls\] prāṇa from apāna, / going out with the sound 'ha' and entering within with the sound 'sa', > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.70) haṃsaḥ so'haṃ manumamuṃ sadā jīvo japet priye / ekaviṃśatsahasraṃ ca ṣaṭśatādhikamīśvari // > the individual soul constantly repeats this mantra: 'haṃsaḥ so'ham' ('I am He'), O beloved. / Twenty-one thousand six hundred times, O sovereign goddess, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.71) haṃsamantrasya saṃkhyā syādahorātreṇa sarvadā / haṃsākhyo'yaṃ mahāmantro hyajapeti prakīrtitaḥ // > is the continuous count of the haṃsa mantra throughout a day and night. / This great mantra named haṃsa is celebrated as the unrecited mantra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.72) japākhyeyaṃ ca gāyatrī yamikaivalyadāyinī / etatsamaṃ tapo jñānaṃ japaḥ puṇyaṃ na kiṃcana // > This is declared to be the recitation of the gāyatrī, which bestows absolute liberation upon the self-restrained. / There is no austerity, knowledge, recitation, or religious merit equal to this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.73) anuccāryā hyavarṇā ca kuṇḍalinyāḥ samudbhavā / prāṇasaṃcāriṇī hyeṣā jñātavyā yogibhiḥ sadā // > Unpronounced and free of phonemes, originating from kuṇḍalinī, / this vital wind coursing along must always be known by yogins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.74) mātā kuṇḍalinī śaktiḥ kandādūrdhvaṃ pratiṣṭhitā / aṣṭadhā parivṛttā ca prasuptabhujagākṛtiḥ // > The mother Kuṇḍalinī power is established above the bulb, / coiled eightfold, in the form of a sleeping serpent. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.75) brahmadvāramukhaṃ sā tu svamukhena pidhāya ca / tāṃ ca prabodhayedādau vahniyogena pārvati // > Covering the entrance of the brahma aperture with her own mouth, / she must first be awakened by the practice of fire, O Pārvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.76) vāyunā manasā sārdhaṃ madhyanāḍyā vrajecchive / haṭhādākuñcanād brahmadvāram udghāṭayettu sā // > Together with breath and mind, she travels through the central channel, O Śivā; / by forceful contraction, she opens the brahma aperture. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.77) yathā nayedguṇaṃ sūcī tadvad brahmabilaṃ tu sā / sukhaṃ padmāsanāsīnaḥ pāṇī cottānitau priye // > Just as a needle leads a thread, so she leads through the brahma opening. / Comfortably seated in padmāsana, with hands upturned, O beloved, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.78) aṅkamadhye nidhāyaiva cubukaṃ vakṣasi nyaset / dṛḍhaṃ gudamukhaṃ gāḍham ākuñcyāpānarandhrakam // > placed right in the lap, one should rest the chin on the chest. / Firmly and tightly contracting the anus, the aperture of the apāna, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.79) muhurmuhurvāyumūrdhvaṃ cālayettvaritaṃ priye / prāṇaṃ muñcankuṇḍalinyāḥ prabhāvānmokṣavartmajam // > one should repeatedly and quickly move the wind upward, O beloved. / Releasing the prāṇa, born from the pathway of liberation through the power of kuṇḍalinī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.80) upaiti satprabodhaṃ ca devānāmapi durlabham / tadodbhūtaiḥ śramajalaiḥ svāṅgāni parimārjayet // > one attains true awakening, which is difficult even for the gods to obtain. / One should wipe one's limbs with the sweat produced thereby. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.81) kṣīrāhārī mitānnāśī kaṭvamlalavaṇaṃ tyajet / jitendriyo brahmacārī kuṭīsthaḥ karmavarjitaḥ // > Subsisting on milk, eating measured food, one should avoid pungent, sour, and salty flavors. / Conquering the senses, celibate, dwelling in a hut, free from daily activities, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.82) evamabhyāsanirato vatsarātsiddhimeti saḥ / \ jālandharaṃ mūlabandham oḍḍīyāṇaṃ ca khecarīm // > devoted to practice in this manner, he attains success within a year. / \ / Jālandhara, mūlabandha, oḍḍīyāṇa, and khecarī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.83) mahāmudrāṃ ca yaḥ kuryātsa bhaveddehasiddhibhāk / eṣāṃ vakṣye lakṣaṇāni gopyāni tava śāmbhavi // > and mahāmudrā: whoever performs these partakes of perfection of the body. / I shall describe their characteristics, which are to be kept secret, O Śāmbhavī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.84) \ jālandharaṃ kaṇṭhasirāsamūhānāṃ ca bandhanam / kṛtvādho namayitvā kaṃ tadā syandati mūrdhataḥ // > \ / Jālandhara is the binding of the network of throat vessels; / having contracted it and bent the head downward, nectar then flows from the skull. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.85) nabhastaḥ syandamānā ca sudhā dogdhau patenna ca / na dhāvati maruttatra karṇasaṃkocane kṛte // > The nectar dripping from the ether does not fall into the milch-cow \[of the digestive fire\]; / the wind does not rush there when the ear-openings are contracted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.86) karṇāmayasamūhaghnaṃ mṛtyughnaṃ tatparaṃ bhavet / \ mūlabandhaṃ pārṣṇibhāgādyonisthānaṃ prapīḍayet // > It destroys all ear afflictions and serves as the ultimate conqueror of death. / \ / For mūlabandha, one should press the perineum with the heel. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.87) gudamākuñcayedyogī nayedūrdhvam apānakam / evaṃ kṛte mūlabandhe kṣīyate malamūlakam // > The yogin should contract the anus and draw the apāna upward. / When mūlabandha is performed thus, the root of waste matter is eliminated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.88) prāṇāpānau ca saṃyuktau syātāṃ vṛddho'pi yauvanam / prāpnuyānmūlabandhena mṛtyuthopi vivasvatām // > Both prāṇa and apāna become united, and even an old person attains youthfulness. / By mūlabandha, even one who is in the clutches of death shines like the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.89) \ oḍḍiyāṇe nābhivivaramūrdhvaṃ jaṭhare dṛḍham / ākṛṣya paścimaṃ tānaṃ bandhayetpavanastadā // > \ / In oḍḍiyāṇa, having firmly pulled the navel cavity upward into the belly / and drawn the back inward, the breath then > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.90) viśrāntaḥ syānmahāmāye coḍyāṇo 'yaṃ prakīrtitaḥ / mṛtyudāvānalo dīpto jarārogābdhivāḍabaḥ // > becomes at rest, O Mahāmāyā; this is proclaimed as oḍyāṇa, / a blazing forest fire to death, a submarine fire to the ocean of senescence and disease. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.91) \ āsyāntarvivare jihvāṃ tālurandhre praveśayet / viparītāṃ bhruvormadhye paśyenniścalayā dṛśā // > \ / One should insert the tongue into the cavity inside the mouth, into the aperture of the palate, / turned backward, gazing between the eyebrows with an unmoving vision. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.92) eṣā hi khecarī mudrā gopanīyātidurlabhā / jihvā tu khagatā yasmānmanaścarati khe tataḥ // > This indeed is khecarī mudrā, to be kept secret and extremely difficult to attain. / Since the tongue moves in the space of the palate, the mind therefore moves in the ether. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.93) khecarīti prasiddheyaṃ mṛtyurogajarāpahā / nidrā kṣudhā tṛṣā nāsti khecaryā mudritasya ca // > Famous as khecarī, this \[mudrā\] destroys death, disease, and senescence. / For one sealed with khecarī, there is neither sleep, hunger, nor thirst. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.94) mūrcchā bhavati sādhvī ca karmabandhabhayaṃ na hi / ramaṇyā saṃgatasyāpi reto na patati dhruvam // > Fainting becomes beneficial, and there is certainly no fear of bondage to karma; / even when united with a beautiful woman, his semen assuredly does not fall. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.95) yāvacchukraṃ sthiraṃ dehe tāvatkālabhayaṃ na hi / yena baddhā nabhomudrā bījastasya na gacchati // > As long as semen is firm in the body, so long there is no fear of death. / For him by whom the sky-mudrā is bound, his seed does not depart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.96) yadi gacchettasya bījo hutāśanamupaiti hi / sa bījaścordhvamāyāti śaktyā pratihataḥ svayam // > If his seed should depart, it enters the fire \[of the yoni\]; / arrested spontaneously by śakti, that seed rises upward again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.97) yonimudrānibaddhaḥ sansā mudrā tena durlabhā / bījastu dvividhaḥ proktaḥ śukraṃ caiva mahārajaḥ // > Bound by the yonimudrā, this mudrā is therefore difficult to attain. / The seed is declared to be of two kinds: semen and the great ovum. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.98) śiraḥsthānagataṃ śukraṃ yonisthānagataṃ rajaḥ / śukraṃ tu śvetavarṇaṃ syātpravālābhaṃ rajaḥ smṛtam // > Semen resides in the head; ovum resides in the yoni. / Semen is white in color, while ovum is taught to resemble coral. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.99) śukraṃ candragataṃ nityaṃ rajaḥ sūryeṇa saṅgatam / śukraṃ śivo rajaḥ śaktistayā yogaḥ sudurlabhaḥ // > Semen belongs perpetually to the moon, and ovum is joined with the sun. / Semen is Śiva, ovum is Śakti; the union of the two is extremely difficult to attain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.100) marutā śakticāreṇa rajaścordhvaṃ praṇīyate / aikyaṃ tadbindunā yāti tadā divyaṃ vapurbhavet // > By the wind, through the movement of the śakti, the ovum is carried upward; / it attains unity with that bindu; then the body becomes divine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.101) \ vāmāṅghrimūlabhāgena yonisthānaṃ prapīḍayet / dakṣiṇāṅghriṃ ca vitataṃ hastābhyām abhidhārayet // > \ / One should press the perineum with the base of the left foot / and hold the extended right foot firmly with both hands. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.102) hanuṃ vakṣasi nikṣipya vāyunā jaṭharaṃ tataḥ / āpūrya recayeddevi sthitvā baddhāsano yamī // > Placing the chin upon the chest, having then filled the belly / with air, the restrained yogi, remaining seated in the locked posture, should exhale, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.103) eṣā khyātā mahāmudrā malasaṃśodhanī varā / sūryendū ghaṭayejjihvāśoṣaṇī pāpanāśinī // > This is celebrated as the great mudrā, the excellent cleanser of impurities; / it unites the sun and the moon, dries the tongue, and destroys sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.104) tathā dakṣiṇapādena yonisthānaṃ prapīḍayet / vitatya vāmapādaṃ ca karābhyāṃ dhārayetpriye // > Likewise, one should press the perineum with the right foot, / and having extended the left foot, hold it with both hands, my dear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.105) śeṣaṃ pūrvoktavat kuryādevaṃ savyāpasavyayoḥ / bhāgayoḥ samakālaḥ syādabhyāsastāṃ vivarjayet // > He should perform the rest as stated previously; in this way, the duration / should be equal on both the right and left sides; \[otherwise\] one should avoid that practice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.106) tasya pathyamapathyaṃ ca ṣaḍrasā nīrasā api / ghoraṃ viṣaṃ vātisukhaṃ pīyūṣamiva jīryate // > For him, wholesome and unwholesome foods, all six tastes or even tasteless things, / and even dreadful poison are digested with great ease, just like nectar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.107) gulmodāvartakuṣṭhādyā rogā naśyantyasaṃśayam / siddhideyaṃ mahāmudrā kālaṃ hanti jarābhayam // > Diseases such as abdominal tumors, upward movement of vāta, and leprosy are destroyed without doubt. / Bestowing alchemical perfection, this great mudrā destroys death and the fear of senescence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.108) na prakāśyā na deyā ca yasmai kasmaicana priye / \<3. pratyāhāraḥ\> muktāsanasthito yogī ṛjvaṅgagrīvamastakaḥ // > It must not be disclosed, nor given to just anyone, my dear. / \<3. pratyāhāra\> / Seated in the muktāsana posture, the yogi, with body, neck, and head held straight, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.109) ghoṇāgralocanaḥ svasthaḥ kuṭīsthaḥ praṇavaṃ japet / trilokaśca trikālaśca tridevāstrīśvarā api // > with eyes fixed on the tip of the nose, composed, staying in a hut, should recite the praṇava. / The three worlds, the three divisions of time, the three gods, and the three lords, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.110) trijyotīṃṣīndumukhyāni trivedāścāgnayastrayaḥ / śaktitrayaṃ tripadavī brāhmī caindrī ca vaiṣṇavī // > the three lights headed by the moon, the three Vedas, the three fires, / the triad of śaktis, the threefold path, and Brāhmī, Aindrī, and Vaiṣṇavī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.111) varṇatrayaṃ ca bhāsante yatra tajjyotiromiti / tam oṃkāraṃ ca manasā vacasā karmaṇā tu yaḥ // > and the three letters shine where that light is Om. / Whosoever, in mind, speech, and deed, regarding that syllable Om, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.112) dhyāyejjapedabhyasecca sa mukto bhavabandhanāt / gacchaṃs tiṣṭhañjapañjāgracchucir vāpyaśucir yadi // > meditates, recites, and practices, is liberated from the bondage of existence. / Whether walking, standing, reciting, or waking, whether pure or impure, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.113) na karmaṇā ca liptaḥ syājjalenābjadalaṃ yathā / vāyau calati sarve'pi calantīndriyadhātavaḥ // > he is not stained by action, just as a lotus leaf is not \[wetted\] by water. / When the wind moves, all the senses and bodily elements also move; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.114) sthite vāyau sthire sarvaṃ vapuḥprabhṛti śāmbhavi / tasmādvāyuṃ nibadhnīyātsthire vāte sthiraṃ manaḥ // > when the wind is still, everything, beginning with the body, is still, O Śāmbhavī. / Therefore, one should restrain the wind; when the wind is steady, the mind is steady. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.115) sthire manasi jīvaśca sthiro bhavati bhairavi / yāvatsaṃyamito vāyuryāvacceto'pi susthiram // > When the mind is steady, the individual soul also becomes steady, O Bhairavī. / As long as the breath is restrained, as long as the mind is firmly stabilized, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.116) bījaṃ yāvadbhruvormadhye tāvatkālabhayaṃ na hi / ṣaṭtriṃśadvyaṅgulaṃ nityaṃ tataḥ prāṇaḥ prakīrtitaḥ // > and as long as the seed is between the eyebrows, so long there is no fear of death. / Thence the prāṇa is perpetually taught to measure thirty-six finger-breadths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.117) baddhapadmāsane sthitvā ṛjvaṅgaḥ sthiramānasaḥ / vāmanāsāpuṭenaiva pūrayetprāṇamārutam // > Remaining seated in the bound lotus posture, with body erect and mind steady, / one should inhale the prāṇa-wind through the left nostril only, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.118) yāvatṣoḍaśamātraṃ ca kumbhayed dvādaśa priye / recayeddaśamātraṃ ca dakṣanāsāpuṭena ca // > for sixteen measures, retain it for twelve, my dear, / and exhale it for ten measures through the right nostril. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.119) punaśca sūryamārgeṇa pūrayet pūrvavatpriye / kumbhayitvā recayecca vāmanāsāpuṭena ca // > Then, one should inhale through the path of the sun as before, my dear; / having retained it, one should exhale through the left nostril. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.120) prāṇāyāmavidhiḥ proktastrividho yogivandite / adhamo madhyamo devi hyuttamo'pi yathākramam // > The procedure of breath control is declared to be threefold, O you who are worshiped by yogis: / the lowest, the middling, and also the highest, respectively, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.121) prokto 'yam adhamas tasmād dviguṇo madhyamaḥ smṛtaḥ / uttamastriguṇaḥ proktaḥ prāṇāyāmo'yamīśvari // > This has been declared the lowest; twice that is considered middling; / three times that is proclaimed the highest breath control, O Īśvarī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.122) yadā tu vāmanāsāyāṃ pūrayeccandramakṣaram / dhyāyedamṛtavārīśamadhyasthaṃ kṣīrasannibham // > When one inhales through the left nostril, one should contemplate the moon syllable, / resembling milk, situated within the ocean of nectar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.123) yadā tu dakṣanāsāyāṃ pūrayet sūryamakṣaram / jvalajjvalanasaṅkāśaṃ nābhisthaṃ cintayetsadā // > When one inhales through the right nostril, one should always visualize the sun syllable, / resembling a blazing fire, situated in the navel. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.124) evaṃ bījadvayaṃ dhyātvā nāsārandhradvayena ca / pūrayedyastu matimānnāḍīśuddhirato bhavet // > Having thus meditated on the two seeds, whoever is wise and inhales / through the two nostrils will thereby attain purification of the channels. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.125) evaṃ māsatrayābhyāsādyatheṣṭaṃ vāyudhāraṇam / pradīpto jāṭharo vahnirnādavyaktiśca jāyate // > Thus, from practicing for three months, retention of the breath \[is achieved\] at will, / the digestive fire is kindled, and the manifestation of the unstruck sound arises. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.126) ārogyaṃ prāpnuyāddevi nityamabhyāsayogataḥ / prathameyaṃ na dharmaḥ syāddvitīye kampate vapuḥ // > One obtains freedom from disease, O goddess, by continuous application to the practice. / In the first \[stage\], sweat appears; in the second, the body trembles; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.127) uttiṣṭhati tṛtīye tu baddhapadmāsanasthiteḥ / prāṇāyāmādiṣaṭkena pratyāhāro bhavecchive // > in the third, one rises up from the bound lotus posture. / Through six sets of breath control and the rest, withdrawal of the senses occurs, O Śivā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.128) taddviṣaṭkena vidhinā dhāraṇā tu praśasyate / dhāraṇādvādaśena syāddhyānaṃ taddvādaśātmakaḥ // > By twice that measure, concentration is praised; / by twelve \[measures of\] concentration, meditation occurs; and consisting of twelve of that > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.129) samādhiḥ kathyate devi tena dṛśyaṃ parātparam / tasminparāpare dhāmni kṣīyate karmasaṃcayaḥ // > is absorption declared to be, O goddess, through which the highest of the high is perceived. / In that supreme abode, the accumulation of karma is destroyed; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.130) janmamṛtyū na bhavato jarārogaśca naśyati / yuktiyuktena yogena cirāyuśca sukhī bhavet // > birth and death do not occur, and senescence and disease are destroyed. / Through properly practiced yoga, one becomes long-lived and happy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.131) ayuktyābhyāsanāddhikkākarṇarogaśirovyathā / śvāsakāsādayo rogā doṣāḥ syurbahavastathā // > From improper practice, hiccups, ear diseases, head pains, / diseases like asthma and cough, and many \[humoral\] defects arise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.132) \ saumyasthānātsamāyātā dvābhyāṃ caikā tu bhujyate / tatastṛtīyo yaḥ kaścitsa syājjanmajarojjhitaḥ // > \ / Arriving from the lunar place, one \[stream\] is consumed by two; / whoever then becomes a third is freed from birth and senescence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.133) prajvalajjvalanākāro nābhimadhye sthito raviḥ / tālumadhye śaśī bhāti sudhāṃ varṣatyadhomukhaḥ // > Having the form of a blazing fire, the sun resides in the middle of the navel; / the moon shines in the middle of the palate and rains nectar facing downward. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.134) tāṃ grasatyūrdhvavadano bhāskaraḥ kiraṇatviṣā / etasya viparītaṃ yatkaraṇaṃ viparītakam // > Facing upward, the sun devours it with the splendor of its rays. / That action which is the reverse of this is the viparītakaraṇī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.135) kākacañcuvadāsyaṃ ca kṛtvā vāyuṃ sasūtkṛtam / ādāya nāsārandhreṇa punastaṃ śvasanaṃ tyajet // > Making the mouth like a crow's beak, drawing in the air with a hissing sound, / one should then release that breath through the nostril. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.136) śītalīkaraṇākhyo'yaṃ yogastu jvarapittahṛt / amṛtaṃ śītalaṃ tasya pibataśca jarā na hi // > This practice called śītalīkaraṇa removes fever and pitta humor. / For him who drinks the cool nectar, there is no senescence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.137) jihvayā tālumūlena prāṇaṃ yaḥ pibati priye / tasya ṣaṇmāsataḥ sarve rogā naśyanti yoginaḥ // > Whoever drinks the prāṇa with the tongue at the root of the palate, my dear— / within six months, all diseases of that yogi are destroyed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.138) rasanāmūrdhvataḥ kṛtvā somaṃ pibati yaḥ priye / siddhirmāsārdha āyāti rogāstasya na santi hi // > Whoever directs the tongue upward and drinks the lunar \[nectar\], my dear, / attains perfection in half a month, and he has no diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.139) jihvāgreṇa ca saṃpīḍya rasanāntarbilaṃ mahat / dhyātvāmṛtajharīmambām ardhābdena bhavetkaviḥ // > Pressing the great cavity within the palate with the tip of the tongue / and meditating on the divine mother as a flood of nectar, in half a year one becomes an inspired poet. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.140) amṛtāplāvitatanor yogino vatsaratrayāt / retaścordhvaṃ prayātyeva sidhyanti hyaṇimādayaḥ // > After three years, for the yogin whose body is inundated with nectar, / his semen indeed flows upward, and the perfections such as minuteness are accomplished. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.141) trividhaṃ garalaṃ tasya śarīre ca na saṃkramet / jarā ca maraṇaṃ nāsti duṣṭasattvabhayaṃ tathā // > And the threefold poison does not spread into his body; / there is neither senescence nor death, and likewise no fear of evil beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.142) \<4. dhāraṇam\> uktāsanasamārūḍhaḥ prāṇāyāmarataḥ sadā / pratyāhāraprasannaḥ sannabhyaseddhāraṇaṃ tataḥ // > \<4. Fixation\> > Seated upon the prescribed posture, constantly devoted to regulation of breath, / being serene through withdrawal of the senses, one should then practice fixation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.143) cetaso niścalatvaṃ yaddhāraṇā sā smṛtā śive / pṛthvyādipañcabhūtānāṃ yā pṛthagdhāraṇā hṛdi // > That which is the immobility of the mind is remembered as fixation, O auspicious goddess; / namely, the distinct fixation in the heart upon the five elements, beginning with earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.144) caturaśrā suvarṇā salakārā ca hṛdi sthitā / brahmaṇā sahitā bhūmirdhyātavyā pañca nāḍikāḥ // > Four-cornered, golden, possessing the syllable 'la', situated in the heart, / and accompanied by Brahmā, the earth should be meditated upon for five nāḍikās. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.145) prāṇaṃ tatraiva manasā dhārayetsaha śāṃbhavi / eṣā stambhakarī vidyā pṛthvījayamavāpnuyāt // > Along with the mind, one should fix the breath right there, O consort of Śambhu; / this is the lore that causes immobilization; one attains mastery over the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.146) ardhacandrapratīkāśaṃ karpūrahimanirmalam / kaṇṭhasthānagataṃ nityaṃ sudhāplutavakārayuk // > Resembling a crescent moon, pure as camphor and snow, / constantly residing in the throat, endowed with the syllable 'va' inundated with nectar, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.147) jalatattvaṃ ca saṃyuktaṃ viṣṇunā tatra dhārayet / prāṇaṃ cittena sahitaṃ dhyātavyaṃ pañcanāḍikāḥ // > one should fix there the water-element associated with Viṣṇu; / along with the mind, the breath should be meditated upon for five nāḍikās. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.148) eṣā hi vāruṇī vidyā viṣapittajvarāpahā / grasane kālakūṭasya mayaiva parikalpitā // > For this is the lore of Varuṇa, which removes poison, pitta humor, and fever; / it was designed by me alone for swallowing the Kālakūṭa poison. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.149) trikoṇaṃ taptahemābhaṃ sarephaṃ rudradaivatam / tālusthānagataṃ dhyāyedvahnitattvaṃ jvalatprabham // > Triangular, resembling heated gold, with the syllable 'ra', having Rudra as its deity, / residing in the region of the palate, one should meditate on the fire-element with blazing luster. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.150) tatraiva pañcaghaṭikāḥ prāṇaṃ ca manasā saha / dhārayennihitaṃ yogī hyeṣā vaiśvānarī parā // > Right there, for five ghaṭikās, the yogin should fix the breath deposited / together with the mind; this indeed is the supreme lore of Vaiśvānara, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.151) viṣāgnibhītisaṃhartrī vātaśleṣmādirogahṛt / vartulaṃ nīlameghābhaṃ bhruvormadhye pratiṣṭhitam // > destroying fear of poison and fire, removing diseases such as vāta humor and phlegm humor. / Circular, resembling a dark cloud, positioned between the eyebrows, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.152) sayakāraṃ vāyutattvaṃ nityamīśvaradaivatam / tatraiva nāḍikāḥ pañca prāṇaṃ ca manasā saha // > with the syllable 'ya', the wind-element having Īśvara as its eternal deity; / right there, for five nāḍikās, \[one should fix\] the breath together with the mind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.153) dhārayedvāyavīyaiṣā vidyā khagatidāyinī / mṛgatṛṣṇāmbusaṅkāśaṃ hakāreṇa samanvitam // > One should fix \[them\]; this is the lore of Vāyu, granting the capacity to move through the sky. / Resembling the water of a mirage, accompanied by the syllable 'ha', > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.154) sadāśivādidaivaṃ ca brahmarandhragataṃ sadā / vyomatattvaṃ nirākāśaṃ śāntaṃ sarvagataṃ priye // > having Sadāśiva as its prime deity, constantly situated in the aperture of Brahman, / the space-element, formless, peaceful, all-pervading, O beloved, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.155) tatra prāṇaṃ ca saṃyamya manasā saha dhārayet / yāvatsyuḥ pañca ghaṭikā nabhovidyeyamīśvari // > having restrained the breath there, one should fix it together with the mind / for as long as five ghaṭikās; this is the sky lore, O sovereign goddess, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.156) kathitā mokṣadā devi yogināṃ duḥkhahāriṇī / stambhanī pārthivī vidyā plāvanī vāruṇī matā // > taught to grant liberation, O goddess, removing the distress of yogins. / The lore of earth is considered immobilizing, and that of Varuṇa is inundating; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.157) tato vaiśvānarī vidyā dāhinīti prakīrtitā / vāyavī bhrāmaṇī proktā śamanī vyomarūpiṇī // > then the lore of Vaiśvānara is proclaimed as burning; / that of Vāyu is spoken of as revolving, and that of space is soothing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.158) kramaśaḥ pañcavidyāśca dhāraṇīyāḥ pṛthakpṛthak / svanāmakarmasadṛśaṃ phalaṃ dadati yoginām // > In succession, these five lores are to be fixed individually; / they bestow upon yogins results matching their own names and actions. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.159) eṣā pañcavidhā devi dhāraṇā bhuvi durlabhā / \<5. dhyānam\> tattveṣu niścalā cintā yā taddhyānaṃ prakīrtyate // > This fivefold fixation, O goddess, is difficult to obtain in the world. > \<5. Meditation\> > That which is unwavering contemplation upon the principles of reality is proclaimed as meditation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.160) dhyānaṃ dvidheti vikhyātaṃ saguṇaṃ nirguṇaṃ priye / saguṇaṃ varṇasahitaṃ nirguṇaṃ varṇavarjitam // > Meditation is renowned as twofold, O beloved: with attributes and without attributes; / with attributes possesses syllables and color, while without attributes is devoid of syllables and color. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.161) lakṣaṃ ca vājapeyānāmaśvamedhasahasrakam / sakṛddhyānasya yogasya kalāṃ nārhanti ṣoḍaśīm // > A hundred thousand Vājapeya sacrifices and a thousand horse-sacrifices / are not worth a sixteenth part of a single meditation of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.162) pratyaṅmanā bahirdṛṣṭir ṛjuḥ padmāsanasthitaḥ / dhyānayogaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ sadyaḥ siddhipradaḥ śubhaḥ // > With mind turned inward, gaze directed outward, upright, seated in the lotus posture; / that is to be known as meditation-yoga, auspicious and instantly conferring perfection. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.163) mūlādhāre suvarṇābhe cakre'sminprathame priye / dhyātvātmānaṃ ca nāsāgre lakṣayeddhanti kilbiṣam // > In this first center, the golden-hued mūlādhāra, O beloved, / having meditated upon the self and aiming at the tip of the nose, one destroys sin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.164) svādhiṣṭhāne ca ratnābhe hyātmānaṃ paricintayet / nāsāgralakṣo duḥkhebhyo mucyate yogisattamaḥ // > And in the svādhiṣṭhāna, radiant as a jewel, one should contemplate the self; / with gaze aimed at the tip of the nose, the excellent yogin is released from suffering. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.165) bālāruṇābhe cātmānaṃ cakre'sminmaṇipūrake / smṛtvā nāsāgradṛṣṭiḥ saṃstrijagatkṣobhayedyamī // > In this maṇipūraka center, resembling the dawn sun, having remembered the self, / with gaze upon the tip of the nose, the self-controlled one agitates the three worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.166) vidyunmālānibhe cakre'nāhate hṛdayasthale / prāṇāyāmena bahudhā sādhite parameśvari // > In the center resembling a garland of lightning, the anāhata in the heart region, / which has been mastered in manifold ways through regulation of breath, O supreme goddess, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.167) ātmānaṃ cintayedyastu nāsāgragatalocanaḥ / bhavedbrahmasamo yogī vaśīkṛtamanāḥ priye // > the one who contemplates the self, with eyes fixed on the tip of the nose, / becomes equal to Brahman, a yogin with mind subjugated, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.168) ghaṇṭikāyāṃ viśuddhākhye svarṇacampakasannibhe / ghrāṇāgradṛṣṭirātmānaṃ dhyātvānandamayo bhavet // > In the viśuddha, at the uvula, resembling the golden campaka flower, / with gaze on the tip of the nose, having meditated upon the self, one becomes full of bliss. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.169) lambikāyāṃ sudhāpūrṇe candramaṇḍalamaṇḍite / nāsāgradṛṣṭirātmānaṃ dhyātvānandamayo bhavet // > In the lambikā, filled with nectar, adorned with the orb of the moon, / with gaze on the tip of the nose, having meditated upon the self, one becomes full of bliss. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.170) bhruvormadhye'ñjanākāre dhyāyedātmānamīśvari / jitaprāṇo bhavedyogī yogānandamayo bhavet // > Between the eyebrows, in the shape of collyrium, one should meditate on the self, O sovereign goddess; / having conquered the breath, the yogin becomes filled with the bliss of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.171) nirguṇaṃ nirapāyaṃ ca śivaṃ śāntaṃ parātparam / viśvataijasam ātmānaṃ dhyāyedbhrūmadhyalocanaḥ // > Devoid of attributes, imperishable, auspicious, peaceful, beyond the highest, / the self luminous everywhere, one should meditate upon it with eyes fixed between the eyebrows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.172) brahmānandamayo yogī bhavatyeva na saṃśayaḥ / ājñācakramiti khyātaṃ pare vyomni nirāmaye // > The yogin certainly becomes filled with the bliss of Brahman, there is no doubt. / In that which is known as the ājñācakra, in the supreme, spotless space, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.173) śivam ātmānamācintya bhavejjñānamayo vaśī / gaganākāramamalaṃ mṛgatṛṣṇāmbusannibham // > having contemplated the auspicious self, one possessing self-control becomes full of knowledge. / Having the form of the sky, stainless, resembling the water of a mirage, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.174) dhyātvātmānaṃ sarvagataṃ mokṣaṃ vrajati saṃyamī / apānameḍhrau nābhiśca hṛdayaṃ ghaṇṭikā tathā // > having meditated on the all-pervading self, the self-controlled one goes to liberation. / The anus, penis, navel, heart, and likewise the uvula, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.175) lambikā ca bhruvormadhyaṃ nabhaśca brahmarandhrakam / tava cakramiti khyātaṃ deyaṃ sthānaṃ ca yoginām // > the soft palate, the space between the eyebrows, the sky, and the aperture of Brahman— / this is celebrated as your cycle of centers, a place to be granted to yogins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.176) dhāraṇā pañcaghaṭikā ṣaṇṇāḍī dhyānamucyate / samādhirdvādaśāhaṃ syātprāṇasaṃyamanātpriye // > Fixation is five ghaṭikās, meditation is said to be six nāḍīs, / and absorption should be twelve days, through the restraint of breath, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.177](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.177) \<6. samādhiḥ\> jalasaindhavayoryogādekatvaṃ ca yathā bhavet / cittātmanoḥ sāmarasyaṃ samādhiḥ sa tu kathyate // > \<6. Absorption\> > Just as oneness occurs through the union of water and salt, / the unified essence of mind and self is proclaimed as absorption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.178) manaḥ pralīyate cānte yadā prāṇakṣayo bhavet / sāmarasyaṃ tadā syācca samādhiḥ sa tu kathyate // > And when the breath comes to an end, the mind dissolves at last; / then unified essence arises, and that is proclaimed as absorption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.179) praṇaṣṭākhilasaṅkalpo jīvātmā paramātmanā / yadekatvaṃ bhajeddevi samādhiḥ sa tu kathyate // > When the individual soul, having lost all volitions, attains oneness / with the supreme soul, O goddess, that is proclaimed as absorption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.180) parāpekṣojjhitaṃ cittamindriyeṣu pravartate / yadā jīvo gataścaikyaṃ tadā naivendriyaṃ manaḥ // > Free from dependence on external things, the mind engages among the sense-faculties; / when the individual soul has attained unity, then neither sense-faculty nor mind exists. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.181) śabdaṃ sparśaṃ ca rūpaṃ ca rasaṃ gandhaṃ paraṃ tathā / ātmānaṃ ca sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ mānāmānaṃ priyāpriye // > Sound, touch, form, taste, and smell, the supreme as well, / the self, pleasure, pain, honor and dishonor, the pleasant and unpleasant, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.182) śītāśītaṃ tathā vātamātapaṃ yo na vetti ca / na bādhyate svakarmaughairna kaiścidapi bādhyate // > cold and heat, and likewise wind and sunshine, one who perceives neither / is not afflicted by the floods of his own karma, nor is he afflicted by anything whatsoever. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.183](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.183) na śastrairbādhyate mantrairyantraistantrairna gṛhyate / nāgninā na jalenāpi vāyunā na ca pīḍyate // > He is not harmed by weapons; he is not seized by mantras, yantras, or tantras; / he is troubled neither by fire, nor by water, nor by wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.184](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.184) avadhyo dehibhiḥ sarvair mānanīyaḥ surairapi / āhāre ca vihāre ca nidrāyām avabodhane // > He cannot be slain by any embodied beings, and is to be revered even by the gods; / while eating, sporting, sleeping, or awakening, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.185) sarvakarmasu yuktaḥ sansa tattvaṃ vetti yogini / nirālambaṃ nirākāramanādyantaṃ nirāśrayam // > being engaged in all actions, he knows the truth, O yoginī: / supportless, formless, without beginning or end, without shelter, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.186) anālayaṃ niṣprapañcaṃ niṣkriyaṃ nirmalaṃ mahat / niścalaṃ nirmalaṃ nityaṃ nirguṇaṃ vyoma cinmayam // > homeless, free of phenomenal manifestation, actionless, stainless, vast, / motionless, pure, eternal, attribute-free, space consisting of pure consciousness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.187) sadānandamanantaṃ ca sarvagaṃ vibhu saṃtatam / etadbrahmapadaṃ tattvaṃ viddhi tvaṃ vindhyavāsini // > Ever-blissful, endless, all-pervading, omnipresent, and eternal; / know this state of Brahman as the absolute reality, O dweller of the Vindhyas! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.188) anāmaye nirālambe nirātaṅke mahādyutau / nirābhāse pare tattve yogayuktaḥ pralīyate // > Endowed with yoga, one merges into the supreme reality, / disease-free, supportless, untroubled, greatly luminous, and devoid of appearance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.189) dugdhe dugdhaṃ ghṛte cājyamagnāvagnirjale jalam / kṣiptaṃ vrajettanmayatvaṃ tathā brahmaṇi līyate // > Milk cast into milk, clarified butter into clarified butter, fire into fire, water into water / becomes of that same nature; just so, one dissolves into Brahman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.190) \ mayoditamidaṃ sarvaṃ divyavāyurasāyanam / yaḥ seveta sa puṇyātmā kṛtakṛtyo jagattraye // > \ > All this divine wind-rejuvenation therapy has been proclaimed by me. / Whoever practices it is a virtuous soul who has accomplished his duty in the three worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.191) sarvayajñaphalopetaḥ sa snātaḥ sarvatīrthake / sa yaśasvī sa yogīndraḥ sa evāmaravanditaḥ // > He possesses the fruit of all sacrifices; he has bathed in every pilgrimage place; / he is renowned; he is a lord of yogins; he alone is bowed to by the immortals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.192) sa eva siddhaḥ śuddhaśca mama tulyo varānane / tasminsnihyati me cetastaccittaṃ me nivāsabhūḥ // > He alone is accomplished and pure, equal to me, O fair-faced woman! / My mind is attached to him; his consciousness is my dwelling place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.193) saphalaṃ jīvitaṃ tasya pūtaṃ tadubhayaṃ kulam / tatpadanyāsamātreṇa dharitrī pāvanīkṛtā // > Fruitful is his life; both his maternal and paternal families are purified; / by the mere placement of his foot, the earth is rendered sanctified. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.194) yatroṣitaṃ kṣaṇaṃ tena puṇyakṣetraṃ hi sā mahī / dhanyā tajjanayitrī ca puṇyastajjanakaḥ priye // > The earth where he resides even for an instant is indeed a sacred field; / blessed is his mother, and virtuous is his father, my dear! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.195) taddarśanātsajīvāḥ syuḥ śūlaprotādayaḥ śavāḥ / tadvākyenaiva sarve'pi labhante'pi śubhāśubham // > From his glance, even corpses impaled on stakes and the like would come to life; / by his very word, all people obtain both good and bad fortune. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20.196) tanmūtramalasaṃsparśāllohā yānti suvarṇatām / kiṃ punaḥ kathyate devi mama tulyaparākramaḥ // > From contact with his urine and feces, base metals turn to gold. / What more can be said, O goddess? His valor is equal to mine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda~en-mt.1.20.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.1.20) · Pramāṇa