kṣurikopaniṣadvivaraṇam · Chapter 1

kṣurikopaniṣat
saha nāvavatu- iti śāntiḥ
yogādhikāraḥ
kṣurikāṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi dhāraṇāṃ yogasiddhaye /
yāṃ prāpya na punarjanma yogayuktasya jāyate

vedatattvārthavihitaṃ yathoktaṃ hi svayaṃbhuvā /
vivaraṇam
kaivalyanāḍikāntasthaparābhūmivarāsanam /
kṣurikopaniṣadyogabhāsuraṃ rāmamāśraye //
iha khalu kṛṣṇayajurvedāntargateyaṃ kṣurikopaniṣat jñānapratibandhakanirasanayogaśāstrarūpiṇī pravṛttā / tasyāḥ upoddhātādi kaṭhavallīvadūhyam / uktalakṣaṇalakṣitāyāḥ asyāḥ svalpagranthato vivaraṇamārabhyate / śrutireva yathoktādhikāriṇa uddiśya svacchandaṃ pravṛtteti yat tadvidyāstutyartham / keyaṃ śrutirityata āha- kṣurikāmiti / ye yathoktayogasādhanasaṃpannāḥ tān prati svājñānahṛdayagranthicchedanapaṭvīṃ kṣurikāmiva śastrarūpāṃ dhāraṇāṃ brahmātiriktaṃ na kiṃcidastīti bhāvanālakṣaṇāṃ samyak pravakṣyāmi / kimartham ? brahmamātrānusaṃdhānaṃ
p. ३७) yogaḥ tatsiddhaye tadavagataya ityarthaḥ / yām uktalakṣaṇalakṣitāṃ dhāraṇāṃ prāpya yogayuktasya muneḥ na punarjanma jāyate janimṛtikalanā na hi bhavati tāmeva saṃpravakṣyāmīti pūrveṇānvayaḥ

kiṃ tadyogalakṣaṇaṃ, kenoktaṃ, kiṃ tatsādhanajātam, ityata āha- vedeti / svayameva bhavatīti svayaṃbhūḥ tena svayaṃbhuvā brahmaṇā parameśvareṇa yogaśikhādau brahmāṇaṃ prati yathoktaṃ tat vedatattvārthavihitaṃ sarvavedāntasaṃmatamityarthaḥ //
āsanaprāṇāyāmau
niḥśabdaṃ deśamāsthāya tatrāsanamavasthitaḥ

kūrmo'ṅgānīva saṃhṛtya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca /
mātrādvādaśayogena praṇavena śanaiḥ śanaiḥ

pūrayet sarvamātmānaṃ sarvadvāraṃ nirudhya ca /
uromukhakaṭigrīvaṃ kiñciddhṛdayamunnatam

prāṇān saṃsārayet tasmin nāsābhyantaracāriṇaḥ /
bhūtvā tatrāyataprāṇaḥ śanairucchvāsamucchvaset

tathāvidhayogasiddhaye sādhanānyupadiśati- niḥśabdamiti / yo nirvikalpakayogārthī so'yaṃ janasaṃbādharāhityāt niḥśabdaṃ deśamāsthāya tatra rahasyapradeśe siddhapadmādyāsanam avasthitaḥ san

śrotrādīnīndriyāṇi kūrmo'ṅgānīva saṃhṛtya svahṛdi mano nirudhya / caśabdāt prāṇendriyadvārasaṃkalpaviralaṃ manaḥ kṛtveti dyotyate /
jānū pradakṣiṇīkṛtya na drutaṃ na vilambitam /
aṅgulīsphoṭanaṃ kuryāt sā mātrā parikīrtitā //
p. ३८) iti śrutisiddhakālarūpamātrādvādaśayogena caturmātrapraṇavena śanaiḥ śanaiḥ

sarvamātmānaṃ svaśarīraṃ vāyunā pūrayet / vāyunirgamanadvāreṣu satsu kathaṃ vāyudhāraṇā syādityatra apānādisarvadvāraṃ nirudhya / caśabdāt pūritaṃ vāyum aṣṭacatvāriṃśanmātrākālaṃ kumbhayediti dyotyate / evaṃ dhāraṇāṃ kṛtvā yathāvat recayet ityāha- ura iti / siddhādyāsanasthito yogī uraśca mukhaṃ ca kaṭiśca grīvā ca uromukhakaṭigrīvamiti / prāṇyaṅgatvāt ekavadbhāvaḥ / hṛdayaṃ ca kiṃcit unnataṃ vidhāya

evaṃ yathoktakālam āyataprāṇo bhūtvā śanaiḥ śanaiḥ ucchvāsam ucchvaset caturviṃśatimātrākālaṃ pūritaṃ vāyuṃ recayet / iḍayā vāyumāpūrya kumbhayitvā piṅgalayā virecya punaḥ piṅgalayā āpūrya kumbhayitvā iḍayā virecayet / evaṃ pratidinaṃ catuṣkālam aśītiprāṇāyāmaṃ kuryāt iti bhāvaḥ

pratyāhāraḥ
sthiramātmadṛḍhaṃ kṛtvā aṅguṣṭhena samāhitaḥ /
dve gulphe tu prakurvīta jaṅghe caiva trayastrayaḥ

dve jānunī tathorū dve gude śiśne trayastrayaḥ /
pāyorāyatanaṃ tatra nābhideśe samāśrayet

tatra nāḍī suṣumnā tu nāḍībhirdaśabhirvṛtā /
tatra raktā ca pītā ca kṛṣṇā tāmrā vilohitā

atisūkṣmā ca tanvī ca śuklāṃ nāḍīṃ samāśrayet /
tatra saṃcārayet prāṇān ūrṇanābhīva tantunā

p. ३९) tato raktotpalābhāsaṃ hṛdayāyatanaṃ mahat /
daharaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ tad vedānteṣu nigadyate

tadbhittvā kaṇṭhamāyāti tannāḍīṃ pūrayediti /
āsanaprāṇāyāmalakṣaṇamuktvā pratyāhāralakṣaṇamāha- sthiramiti / evaṃ prāṇābhyāsapāṭavāt yogī siddhaṃ padmāsanaṃ vā āsthāya samāhitendriyo bhūtvā kaniṣṭhikānāmikābhyāṃ sahāṅguṣṭhena nāsikāpuṭaṃ nirudhya hṛdaye sthiraṃ yathā bhavati tathā svātmamanaḥprāṇaṃ dṛḍhaṃ kṛtvā kevalakumbhakamāsthāya / atha dve gulphe vartete tatra vāyuṃ samāropya dhāraṇāṃ kurvīta / tuśabdataḥ pādāṅgulīṣvapi vāyumāropayediti dyotyate / tato jaṅghe jaṅghāpradeśe caiva trayastraya ityāvṛttiḥ ādarārthā / pādāṅgulīgulphajaṅgheṣu trayastraya iti dvitīyārthe prathamā- trisaṃkhyākān dṛṣṭimanaḥprāṇān krameṇa āropya tatastataḥ pratyāharet

tathā dve jānunī ūrū dve gude śiśne ca trayastrayo dṛṣṭimanaḥprāṇān pratyāharet / jānūrumūlādhārasvādhiṣṭhāneṣu tatra tatra kumbhitvā pratyāhṛtya atha pāyoḥ mūlādhārādeḥ yadāyatanaṃ āśrayaḥ tatra nābhideśe maṇipūrake dṛṣṭimanaḥprāṇān samāropya tajjayaparyantaṃ samāśrayet

tatra maṇipūrakāśrayanāḍīkande iḍāpiṅgalādināḍībhiḥ daśabhiḥ vṛtā satī suṣumnā nāma kācana brahmanāḍī vartate / tatraiva nāḍīkande raktā, caśabdāt kapiśā, pītā caśabdāt piṅgalā, kṛṣṇā, tāmrā, vilohitā / pāṇḍarādivarṇaviśiṣṭā idā- piṅgalā- gāndhārā- varuṇetyādidaśanāḍītatiḥ

sūkṣmā ca tanvī ca / caśabdadvayataḥ dvāsaptatisahasrasaṃkhyāḥ pradhānanāḍyaḥ santīti dyotyate / sarvāsu nāḍīṣu yā pradhānabhūtā śuklavarṇojjvalā tāṃ śuklāṃ suṣumnānāḍīṃ samāśrayet / tatra dṛṅmanaḥprāṇān pratyāharet ityāha- tatreti / yathā ūrṇanābhiḥ tantunā saṃcarati tathā tatra suṣumnāyāṃ dṛgādīn saṃkramet ityarthaḥ

tataḥ suṣumnāmārgāt raktotpalābhāsaṃ hṛdayāyatanaṃ nāḍyapekṣayā
p. ४०) mahat / daharaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ veśma ityādivedānteṣu yat daharaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ nigadyate tatra suṣumnānālārpitahṛdaye dṛgādīn trīnapi pratyāharet

tataḥ tat hṛdayapaṅkajaṃ bhittvā dṛgādiḥ kaṇṭhaṃ tadgataviśuddhicakraṃ yāti / tatra pratyāhṛtya, tato bhrūmadhyam ājñācakraṃ tataḥ sahasrāracakraṃ ca pūrayet pratyāharet / iti śabdaḥ pratyāhārasamāptyarthaḥ //
dhāraṇādhyānasamādhayaḥ
manasastu paraṃ guhyaṃ sutīkṣṇaṃ buddhinirmalam

padasyopari yanmarma tadrūpaṃ nāma cintayet /
manodhāreṇa tīkṣṇena yogamāśritya nityaśaḥ

indravajramiti proktaṃ marmajaṅghānukṛntanam /
taddhyānavalayogena dhāraṇābhirnikṛntayet

ūrdhvormadhye tu saṃsthāpya marmaprāṇavimocanam /
caturabhyasya yogena chindedanabhiśaṅkitaḥ

tataḥ kaṇṭhāntare yogī samūhennāḍisaṃcaye /
ekottaraṃ nāḍiśataṃ tāsāṃ madhye parā sthitā

suṣumnā tu pare līnā virajā brahmarūpiṇī /
iḍā tiṣṭhati vāmena piṅgalā dakṣiṇena tu

tayormadhye paraṃ sthānaṃ yastaṃ veda sa vedavit /
dvāsaptatisahasrāṇi pratināḍīṣu taitilam

p. ४१) chidyate dhyānayogena suṣumnaikā na chidyate /
yoganirmalasāreṇa kṣureṇānalavarcasā

chindennāḍīśataṃ dhīraḥ prabhavādiha janmani /
jātīpuṣpasamaṃ yogī yadā paśyati taitilam

evaṃ śubhāśubhairbhāvaiḥ sā nāḍīnāṃ vibhāvayet /
tadbhāvitāḥ prapadyante punarjanmavivarjitāḥ

tato dhāraṇādhyānasamādhilakṣaṇamāha- manasa iti / manasaḥ antaḥkaraṇavṛttisahasrāt param / tuśabdo manastatkāryasya vastuto'saṃbhavārthaḥ / guhyam, anadhikāriṇo gopanīyatvāt / sutīkṣṇaṃ, svājñānatatkāryatantuchedanasutīkṣṇasvajñānaśastravattvāt / buddhinirmalaṃ, nirmalabuddhivedyatvāt

viśvavirāḍotrādipādajātasya upari yanmarma viśvādyasaṃbhavaprabodhasiddhasīma tadrūpaṃ nāma tadasmīti cintayet dhārayet / evaṃ brahmadhāraṇaṃ svājñānagranthichedakaṃ syādityāha- mana iti / evaṃ nityaśaḥ sadā tīkṣṇena manodhāreṇa brahmātiriktaṃ na kiṃcidastīti manodhāraṇārūpaśastreṇa, svājñānaṃ bhramaṃ chindet ityanvayaḥ

yat svājñānaparvatabhedena indravajramiti proktaṃ svātiriktamarmādyavayavakṛntanaṃ tathāvidhayogaṃ suṣumnābhedanalakṣaṇaṃ āśritya tadbrahmāhamasmīti dhyānabalayogena tadviśiṣṭapadāṅguṣṭhādisahasrārāntadhāraṇābhiḥ svātiriktaṃ bhramaṃ nikṛntayet

yadi punaḥ svātiriktabhrama udeti tadā svāvidyāpadasya ūrvoḥ vyaṣṭisamaṣṭyoḥ tadāropāpavādādhāraviśvavirāṭtatturyayoḥ yat madhyam avikalpaṃ tasmin madhye dṛṅmanaḥprāṇān saṃsthāpya dhāraṇāṃ kṛtvā / tuśabdaḥ avadhāraṇārthaḥ / yathoktayogena sthūlādicaturaṃśāḍhyasvāvidyāpadatatkāryaṃ marma / tadāropāpavādādhāraḥ prāṇo viśvavirāḍotrādiḥ tanmocanaṃ caturabhyasya marmaprāṇasthūlādicaturaṃśāpavādaṃ kṛtvā tadapavādādhikaraṇaṃ
p. ४२) brahmāsmīti dhāraṇābalena anabhiśaṅkitaḥ san yogī yogāntarāyaṃ chindet

tataḥ kimityata āha- tata iti / yataḥ nāḍīsaṃcayaśuddhiṃ vinā yogasiddhiḥ na bhavati tataḥ kāraṇāt yogī svakaṇṭhāntare vilasannāḍīsaṃcaye prāṇavāyuṃ samyak ūhet, kevalakumbhakopāyato nāḍīsaṃcayaśuddhiṃ kuryāt / pradhānanāḍayaḥ kā ityata āha- eketi / svadehamadhye ekottaram iḍādipradhānanāḍīśataṃ vidyate / tāsāṃ madhye sthirā suṣumnā nāḍī parā sarvotkṛṣṭā

seyaṃ suṣumnā tu pare brahmaṇi līnā; brahmasūtravāt / virajā, rajastamovikāravairalyāt / brahmarūpiṇī, brahmalokāptihetutvāt / suṣumnājñānaphalamāha- iḍeti / suṣumnāyā vāmabhāgena, saptamyarthe tṛtīyā, suṣumnāvāmadakṣiṇapārśvayoḥ iḍā piṅgalā ca tiṣṭhati

tayormadhye suṣumnāyāṃ paramutkṛṣṭaṃ brahmasthānaṃ vartate / taṃ tatratyaparamātmānaṃ pratyagabhedena yo veda sa muniḥ vedārthabrahmavit bhavati / yathoktadhyānayogena suṣumnetaranāḍīṣu prāṇagatiḥ chidyate, suṣumnāprāṇagatistu na chidyata ityāha- dvāsaptatīti // pradhānanāḍyastu dvāsaptatisahasrāṇi bhavanti / tatra suṣumnā-nāḍyantargatakaivalyanāḍikāntaḥsthaniṣpratiyogikacinmātradhyānayogena pratināḍīṣu prāṇavāyostaitilaṃ gatāgatalakṣaṇam

chidyate vicchidyate / tadānīṃ suṣumnā ekā suṣumnāmadhyagakaivalyanāḍikāyāṃ dṛṅmanaḥprāṇavṛttiḥ na chidyate ābrahmakalpaṃ na naśyati, na bahiḥ nirgacchati, kalpānte virūpavilayaṃ bhajati / ata eva kaivalyanāḍīpraviṣṭadṛgvāyumanovṛttimanmunikalebaram ābrahmakalpaṃ tiṣṭhatītyatra bhagavadvacanaṃ mānama-
mattattvavettuḥ karaṇālirādau kaivalyanāḍyantara citkhametya /
ābrahmakalpaṃ vilayaṃ bhajan san kāyena kaivalyamavāpya tiṣṭhet //
iti / yataḥ evam ato dhīro yogī yogaḥ tattvajñānaṃ tathāvidhayoga eva nirmalasāraḥ sūkṣmadhārārūpaḥ tena yoganirmalasāreṇa kṣureṇa analavarcasā

iha asminneva janmani prabhavāt brahmātiriktaṃ na kiṃcidastīti bhāvanābalāt nāḍīśataṃ tadgataprāṇapracarān chindet kaivalyanāḍyāmeva
p. ४३) dṛṅmanaḥprāṇapracāraṃ kuryāt iti bhāvaḥ / kaivalyataditaranāḍīvāyupracārāpracārato yogī kṛtakṛtyo bhavatītyāha- jātīti / yathoktasādhanasaṃpanno yogī jātīpuṣpaparimalāvinābhāvavat yadā kaivalyanāḍyāṃ dṛṅmanaḥprāṇataitilaṃ sthairyaṃ paśyati tadā videhamukto bhavati, gamanaṃ taitilaṃ sthairyam iti kośāt

evaṃ yadā suṣumnāntaḥsthakaivalyanāḍītaranāḍīnāṃ yā dṛṅmanaḥprāṇagatiḥ seyaṃ svarganarakagamanāgamanalakṣaṇaiḥ śubhāśubhaiḥ bhāvaiḥ yukteti vibhāvayet / apunarbhavagatipradā iyaṃ suṣumnā nāḍī, kaivalyagatipradā iyaṃ suṣumnāntargatakaivalyanāḍī, taditararamādināḍītatiḥ śubhaphalasvargādiprāpikā, aramādināḍītatiḥ aśubhaphalanarakādiprāpikā, taditaranāḍyastu nānāvicitrarogādigatiprāpikā ityatra ramā puṇyena puṇyaṃ lokaṃ nayati aramā pāpena pāpam icchayā yat smarati tadabhisaṃpadyate apunarbhavāyākośaṃ bhinatti ityādi mṛtyurvai pare deva ekībhavati ityādi śruteḥ / yataḥ itaranāḍīvāyupracāraḥ śubhāśubhahetuḥ ato yogābhyāsena tadgatinirodhaṃ kṛtvā suṣumnādināḍyāmeva vāyupracāraṃ bhāvayet / evaṃ bhāvanāphalamāha- taditi / evaṃ suṣumnādau prāṇamāropya tadbrahmāhamasmīti dhiyā bhāvitā evaṃ bhāvanayā te punarjanmavivarjitāḥ santaḥ tadeva brahma prapadyante

yogasādhanaṃ tadadhikārī ca
tapovijitacittastu niḥśabdaṃ deśamāsthitaḥ /
niḥsaṅgaḥ sāṅgayogajño nirapekṣaḥ śanaiḥ śanaiḥ

tadyogasādhanaṃ adhikāriṇaṃ ca nirūpayati- tapa iti / svāśramācārasahakṛtayogābhyāsatapasā vijitacittastu yogī nirvikalpakasamādhyarthaṃ janasambādharāhityāt niḥśabdaṃ deśamāsthitaḥ svāntarbahiḥkalanāniḥsaṅgaḥ sāṅgayogajñaḥ aṣṭāṅgayogatattvavit svātiriktanirapekṣaḥ san śanaiḥ śanaiḥ vikalpajātaṃ hitvā nirvikalpakasamādhiniṣṭho bhavet iti vākyaśeṣaḥ

p. ४४) samādhiphalam
pāśāṃśchittvā yathā haṃso nirviśaṅkaṃ khamutpatet /
chinnapāśastathā jīvaḥ saṃsāraṃ tarate sadā

yathā nirvāṇakāle tu dīpo dagdhvā layaṃ brajet /
tathā sarvāṇi karmāṇi yogī dagdhvā layaṃ vrajet

prāṇāyāmasutīkṣṇena mātrādhāreṇa yogavit /
vairāgyopalaghṛṣṭena cchittvā tantuṃ na badhyate

ityupaniṣaṭ //
sadṛṣṭāntaṃ samādhiphalamāha- pāśāniti / yathā haṃsaḥ svatuṇḍena svapādabandhanamānasasaroruhakamalapāśān chittvā nirviśaṅkaṃ yathā bhavati tathā khamutpatet tathā yogī jīvaḥ sadā yogābhyāsatīkṣṇakhaḍgena saṃchinnasaṃsṛtipāśaḥ san saṃsāraṃ tarate

kiṃ ca- yathā dīpo nirvāṇakāle svāśrayavarttyādikaṃ dagdhvā svayonau layaṃ śāntiṃ brajet tathā yogī svāvārakabrahmamātrāvaraṇasarvakarmajālaṃ dagdhvā svātiriktalayamapahnavaṃ brajet

uktopaniṣadarthamupasaṃharati- prāṇeti / yathoktayogavit muniḥ prāṇāyāmādisādhanasutīkṣṇena samyaktīvrataravairāgyayopalaghṛṣṭena ardhamātrādhāreṇa svajñānaśastreṇa svajñānatantuṃ chittvā na punaḥ badhyate svājñānena / svajñānena tantucchedanasamakālaṃ yogī svamātramavaśiṣyate / itiśabdo niḥsaṃśayārthaḥ / upaniṣacchabdaḥ prakṛtopaniṣatparisamāptyarthaḥ

śrīvāsudevendraśiṣyopaniṣadbrahmayoginā /
likhitaṃ syādvivaraṇaṃ kṣurikāyāḥ sphuṭaṃ laghu /
kṣurikopaniṣadvyākhyā viṃśatyadhiśataṃ smṛtā //
iti śrīmadīśādyaṣṭottaraśatopaniṣacchāstravivaraṇe ekatriṃśatsaṃkhyāpūrakaṃ kṣurikopaniṣadvivaraṇaṃ saṃpūraṇam