Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam / Consciousness and the mind (चित्त) / 5
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the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (प्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदयम्)
चितिरेव चेतनपदादवरूढा चेत्यसंकोचिनी चित्तम् citir eva cetanapadād avarūḍhā cetyasaṃkocinī cittam
The line
The mind is consciousness herself, come down from the state of the conscious and contracting into the knowable.
नेपालीमा
मन भनेको चिति आफैँ हो, चेतन अवस्थाबाट ओर्लेर ज्ञेयमा खुम्चिएकी।
Where it sits
The Śiva Sūtra (शिव सूत्र) 3.1 says the self is the mind. This sūtra (सूत्र) says the mind is consciousness come down. The two lines meet. They are not the same sentence. 13 will climb back.
Split: citiḥ (चितिः) + eva (एव) + cetanapadāt (चेतनपदात्) + avarūḍhā (अवरूढा) + cetyasaṃkocinī (चेत्यसंकोचिनी) + cittam (चित्तम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| citiḥ (चितिः) | nominative singular, feminine | consciousness. Recited citir (चितिर्) before a vowel. |
| eva (एव) | indeclinable | herself, the very one. Nothing else. |
| cetanapadāt (चेतनपदात्) | ablative singular, neuter | from the state of the conscious. pada (पद) is a state, a place. The ablative is the place she comes down from. |
| avarūḍhā (अवरूढा) | nominative singular, feminine | descended, come down. Agrees with citiḥ (चितिः). |
| cetyasaṃkocinī (चेत्यसंकोचिनी) | nominative singular, feminine | contracting into the knowable. cetya (चेत्य) is what can be known. saṃkocin (संकोचिन्) is what contracts. Feminine, with citiḥ (चितिः). |
| cittam (चित्तम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the mind. |
The phrases
cittam (चित्तम्) is citiḥ eva (चितिः एव), consciousness herself, once she has come down from the conscious state and contracted into a knowable. Two nominatives, citiḥ (चितिः) and cittam (चित्तम्), and the participles describe her.
Sanskrit in this line
citiḥ (चितिः) plus eva (एव) is citir eva (चितिरेव). The visarga becomes r (र्) before the vowel. cetya (चेत्य) plus saṃkocinī (संकोचिनी) is one feminine compound.
Say it back
Say what the mind is, and what she has come down from.