योगबीज (गुरु गोरखनाथ परम्परा - महायोग, प्राण-अपान एकत्व एवं कैवल्य-सिद्धि सटीक)
Yogabija of Guru Gorakhnath Tradition with Commentary
गुरु गोरखनाथ / भगवान् शिव-देवी संवाद द्वारा
अनन्यतां यदा याति तदा मुक्तः स उच्यते ॥ १८७ ॥ cinmayāni śarīrāṇi indriyāṇi tathaiva ca | ananyatāṃ yadā yāti tadā muktaḥ sa ucyate || 187 || 187. Bodies and senses that are of the nature of consciousness, when they attain non-difference, then that person is said to be liberated. एतत् ते कथितं देवि तव प्रीत्या सुरेश्वरि । गोपनीयं प्रयत्नेन क्रूरे धूर्ते शठे खले ॥ १८८ ॥ etat te kathitaṃ devi tava prītyā sureśvari | gopanīyaṃ prayatnena krūre dhūrtte śaṭhe khale || 188 || 188. This has been told to you, O Goddess, O Queen of Gods, for your pleasure. With great care this should be kept secret and not revealed to the hard-hearted¹, the dishonest, the deceitful, or the wicked.
- "Where is hard-heartedness found? There, within the body, in the false abode of ego." Refer back to verse 169. दातव्यं शिवभक्तेषु नाथमार्गपरेषु च । योगबीजं महागुह्यं यन्मया प्रकटीकृतम् ॥ १८९ ॥ dātavyaṃ śivabhakteṣu nāthamārgapareṣu ca | yogabījaṃ mahāguhyaṃ yan mayā prakaṭīkṛtam || 189 ||
- This should be given to the devotees of Śiva and to those dedicated to the path of the Nātha. The great secret, the seed of yoga, which has been revealed by me. श्री देव्य् उवाच | śrī devy uvāca | The shining goddess said: गतो मे संशयो नाथ कृपया तव शङ्कर । नमस् ते योगराजाय सर्वज्ञाय नमो नमः ॥ १९० ॥ gato me saṃśayo nātha kṛpayā tava śaṅkara | namas te yogarājāya sarvajñāya namo namaḥ || 190 ||
- My doubt has been removed, O Lord, by your grace, O Śaṅkara. To you who cry out¹, the king of Yoga, the all-knowing one, by paying repeated honour², ³.
- The Lions roar.
- Paying repeated honour (by gesture or 'words').
- "Honour," "She (the source) of (the flowing) river" (of light). The original true sense of the English word "honour" may be found by tracing the etymology back from the Old English "hōn" to Old Norse "hón" ("she") + the (Old Norse) genitive (pertaining to origin) suffix "ár," from á ("water, stream, river"). In the breathless state, the physical body is cast off and one's lucid consciousness crosses over (the threshold of life-and-death) impelled through the doorway (which opens up) and entering into the shining womb of all creation (hiranya-garbhá) becoming as one with the light. One who is twice-born in the śāmbhava state (drinking in light through the eyes from the shining womb of all creation) pays true honour. अजपा नाम गायत्री योगिनां मोक्षदायिनी । ajapā nāma gāyatrī yogināṁ mokṣadāyinī | (Oh Viṣṇu), drinking in light through the eyes, there is no poison of time; coming into this state of joining with the light, protects, preserves, defends and rescues one from time. Attaining the light of the womb, one abides in an undying state. This state produces the effect of cutting off the effects of time; by which one may escape and move away from the measure of time's destruction of the world. Verse 44.1 of the Gorakṣaśatakam (saṃdhā-bhāṣā translation). इति श्रीम॒हेश्वरापरपर्यायभगवद्गोरक्षनाथोद्भावितयोगबीजं पूर्णम् ॥ iti śrīmaheśvarāparaparyāyabhagavad gorakṣanāthod bhāvitayogabījaṃ pūrṇam || Thus¹, the great shining Īśvara, having nothing higher, lays down (his body, and in this way, goes to) the shining womb² (of all creation), and Gorakṣanātha having manifested and fixed his gaze upon the seed of yoga becomes complete.³
- By these very words spoken.
- गगन मंडल माईं ऊंधा कूंबा तहाँ अमृत का बासा | सगुरा होइ सु भरी भरी पीवै निगुरा जाइ पियासा || २३ || gagana maṇḍala māī ūndhā kūbā tahā āmṛta kā bāsā | sagurā hoi su bhari bhari pīvai nigurā jāi piyāsā || 23 ||
- Within the great circle of the void, there is an upside-down well, there is the abode of the nectar of immortality. The one with a Guru pervades (across), united, drinks fully and becomes well, those without a guru (longing to drink) go thirsty. Śábda 23, Gorakh Bānī (The Sayings of Gorakṣanātha).
- Completely full of light (as one with the light). Sanskrit from the critical recension of the Yogabīja compiled by Prof. Adrián Muñoz (2016).