Just as the ocean’s salty water taken into the clouds turns sweet, the stable mind works to benefit others, the poison of objects turns into healing water.
- Mahasiddha #Saraha
Once in the realm full of joy the seeing mind becomes enriched and thereby for this and that most useful;
even when it runs after objects it is not alienated from itself.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 37
As higher awareness they teach what they experience within. What fetters them they will call liberation.
Green glass to them is an emerald; deluded, they know not a gem from thought.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 25
This world of appearances has from its radiant beginning never come to be; unpatterned it has discarded patterning. As such it is continuous and unique meditation; it is nonmind.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 32
The buds of joy and pleasure and the leaves of glory grow. Bliss unspeakable will fruit if nothing out anywhere flows.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 38
What's been done, where and what in itself it will become is no-thing:
yet thereby it has been useful for this and that.
Whether passionate or not
the pattern is no-thingness.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 39
Some people who have kindled the inner heat and raised it to the fontanelle
confuse that which fetters with what gives release, in pride will call themselves yogis.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 24
All must be viewed as if they were a magic spell. If without distinction you can accept or reject #saṃsāra or #nirvāṇa, in you will be self-being, beyond thought and self-originated.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 31
Like salt sea water that turns sweet when drunk up by the clouds, so a firm mind that works for others turns the poison of sense-objects into nectar.
- #Saraha, 'King Dohās' 11
Here in this body are the sacred rivers:
here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimages.
I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body!
- #Mahasiddha #Saraha
Although there is absolutely nothing to meditate on,
one should not be distracted for even a moment.
- #Saraha
A thing appears in the world and then goes to destruction.
If it has no true existence, how may it appear again?
If it is free from both manifestation and destruction, what then arises?
Stay! Your master has spoken.
- #Saraha
Existence is nirvāṇa– can't be considered apart;
lacking single nature– completely stainless.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 101
Free the potent elephant
of mind,
and don't look there for concepts;
let that vast mountain
drink the river's water,
and dwell on the shore as it pleases.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 100
Reflecting that everything is aggregation, in these verses I declare–
no-thing is secret.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 92
As it is without, so within: what's bodiless is hidden in the body; know this, and then you're free.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 89
Swallowing appearances, she doesn't care.
Beyond thought, hard to find, the #yoginī 's way, past compare!
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 85
Brought together in emptiness, consider all the same;
even a splinter of a sesame husk will cause pain.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 75
Even the upright may be bound by the flaws of seeing double.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 70a
Through the guru's teaching, awareness is purified–
what wealth is there besides that?
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 69
The scholar expounds his treatise in full,
not knowing Buddha dwells in his body.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 68
If the village of senses and objects
isn't destroyed,
inaction continues
pouring forth on its own.
Who can probe
so difficult a knot,
unable to see
where they are?
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 67
Don't think atoms or even their parts–
that is rapture unceasing speeding even to the stars.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 61
How can the utmost power be described?
Like a virgin's first taste of rapture.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 58
Abandon both mind and no-mind, and be like a child;
be firm in guru-word and the innate wave will arise.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 57
You dwell in nirvāṇa, but beautify your existence–
don't treat one disease with the cure of another.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 56d
Grasping for certainty, fools get only the details;
in the outcaste's home is enjoyment not dirt.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 56e
Don't drink from the gurus ambrosial teachings,
and die thirsty in the desert of textual meanings
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 56
Just sense and give up non-sense–
sit or stand but don't move from the singular!
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 55
Where things taste the same, in the innate,
you'll find neither the impure nor the pure.
- #Saraha, ' #Dohākoṣa' 46