Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 111–138 (उपदेश) / 128
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
नित्ये निराश्रये शून्ये व्यापके कलनोज्झिते ।
बाह्याकाशे मनः कृत्वा निराकाशं समाविशेत् nitye nirāśraye śūnye vyāpake kalanojjhite |
bāhyākāśe manaḥ kṛtvā nirākāśaṃ samāviśet
The line
In the eternal, the supportless, the void, the pervading, the one free of fashioning, having made the mind in the outer sky, one should enter the skyless.
नेपालीमा
नित्य, निराश्रय, शून्य, व्यापक, कलना छाडेकोमा, बाहिरी आकाशमा मन राखेर निराकाशमा पस्नु।
Where it sits
The outer sky is where the mind is made. What is entered is nirākāśa (निराकाश), the skyless. The verse holds both.
Split: nitye (नित्ये) + nirāśraye (निराश्रये) + śūnye (शून्ये) + vyāpake (व्यापके) + kalanojjhite (कलनोज्झिते) + bāhyākāśe (बाह्याकाशे) + manaḥ (मनः) + kṛtvā (कृत्वा) + nirākāśam (निराकाशम्) + samāviśet (समाविशेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| nitye (नित्ये) | locative singular, masculine | in the eternal. |
| nirāśraye (निराश्रये) | locative singular, masculine | in the supportless. |
| śūnye (शून्ये) | locative singular, masculine | in the void. |
| vyāpake (व्यापके) | locative singular, masculine | in the pervading. |
| kalanojjhite (कलनोज्झिते) | locative singular, masculine | in what has left fashioning. ujjhita (उज्झित) is abandoned. |
| bāhyākāśe (बाह्याकाशे) | locative singular, masculine | in the outer sky. |
| manaḥ (मनः) | accusative singular, neuter | the mind. |
| kṛtvā (कृत्वा) | absolutive | having made. |
| nirākāśam (निराकाशम्) | accusative singular, neuter | what is without sky. |
| samāviśet (समाविशेत्) | optative | one should enter fully. |
The phrases
Five locatives name where the mind is made: eternal, supportless, void, pervading, free of fashioning, and the outer sky. One should enter what is without sky.
Sanskrit in this line
Five adjectives, one locative chain, agreeing with a noun the verse leaves unnamed. bāhyākāśe (बाह्याकाशे) is the place that is named.
Say it back
Say where the mind is made, and what is entered.