Siva Sutras

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Section I- Universal consciousness

I-1. Consciousness is the self.

I-2. (Ordinary) knowledge consists of associations.
I-3. Sets of axioms generate structures.
I-4. The ground of knowledge is matrka (Universal Mother).
I-5. The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava.
I-6. By union with the energy centers one withdraws from the universe.
I-7. Even during waking, sleep, and deep sleep one can experience the fourth state
(transcending consciousness).
I-8. (Sensory) knowledge is obtained in the waking state.
I-9. Dreaming is free ranging of thoughts.
I-10. Deep sleep is maya, the irrational.
I-11. The experiencer of the three states is the lord of the senses.
I-12. The domain of the union is an astonishment.
I-13. The power of the will is the playful uma.
I-14. The observed has a structure.
I-15. By fixing the mind on its core one can comprehend perceivable and emptiness.
I-16. Or by contemplating the pure principle one is free of the power that binds (to associations).

I-17. Right discernment is the knowledge of the self.

I-18. The bliss of the sight is the joy of samadhi.
I-19. The body emerges when the energies unite.
I-20. Elements unite, elements separate, and the universe is gathered.
I-21. Pure knowledge leads to a mastery of the wheel (of energies).
I-22. The great lake (of space-time) is experienced through the power of mantra.

Section II- The emergence of innate knowledge

II-1. The mind is mantra.

II-2. Effort leads to attainment.
II-3. The secret of mantra is the being of the body of knowledge.
II-4. The emergence of the mind in the womb is the forgetting of common knowledge.
II-5. When the knowledge of one's self arises one moves in the sky of consciousness---the
Shiva's state.
II-6. The guru is the means.
II-7. The awakening of the wheel of mat\drka (the elemental energies).
II-8. The body is the oblation.
II-9. The food is knowledge.
II-10. With the extinction of knowledge emerges the vision of emptiness.

Section III- The transformations of the individual

III-1. The mind is the self.

III-2. (Material) knowledge is bondage (association).
III-3. Maya is the lack of discernment of the principles of transformation.
III-4. The transformation is stopped in the body.
III-5. The quieting of the vital channels, the mastery of the elements, the withdrawal from the
elements, and the separation of the elements.
III-6. Perfection is through the veil of delusion.
III-7. Overcoming delusion and by boundless extension innate knowledge is achieved.
III-8. Waking is the second ray (of consciousness).
III-9. The self is the actor.
III-10. The inner self is the stage.
III-11. The senses are the spectators.
III-12. The pure state is achieved by the power of the intellect.
III-13. Freedom (creativity) is achieved.
III-14. As here so elsewhere.
III-15. Emission (of consciousness) is the way of nature and so what is not external is seen as
external.
III-16. Attention to the seed.
III-17. Seated one sinks effortlessly into the lake (of consciousness).
III-18. The measure of consciousness fashions the world.
III-19. As (limited) knowledge is transcended, birth is transcended.
III-20. Maheshvari and other mothers (sources) of beings reside in the sound elements.
III-21. The fourth (state of consciousness) should be used to oil the (other) three (states of
consciousness).
III-22. Absorbed (in his nature), one must penetrate (the phonemes) with one's mind.
III-23. The lower plane arises in the center (of the phoneme).
III-24. A balanced breathing leads to a balanced vision.
III-25. What was destroyed rises again by the joining of perceptions with the objects of
experience.
III-26. He becomes like Shiva.
III-27. The activity of the body is the vow.
III-28. The recitation of the mantras is the discourse.
III-29. Self-knowledge is the boon.
III-30. He who is established is the means and knowledge.
III-31. The universe is the aggregate of his powers.
III-32. Persistence and absorption.
III-33. Even when this (maintenance and dissolution) there is no break (in awareness) due to
the perceiving subjectivity.
III-34. The feeling of pleasure and pain is external.
III-35. The one who is free of that is alone (with consciousness).
III-36. A mass of delusion the mind is subject to activity.
III-37. When separateness is gone, action can lead to creation.
III-38. The power to create is based on one's own experience.
III-39. That which precedes the three (states of consciousness) vitalizes them.
III-40. The same stability of mind (should permeate) the body, senses and external world.
III-41. Craving leads to the extroversion of the inner process.
III-42. When established in pure awareness, (the craving) is destroyed and the (empirical)
individual ceases to exist.
III-43. Although cloaked in the elements one is not free, but, like the lord, one is supreme.
III-44. The link with the vital breath is natural.
III-45. Concentrating on the center within the nose, what use are the left and the right channels
or sushumna?
III-46. May (the individual) merge (in the lord) once again.