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. 1