PART ONE: Review of Trisvabhāva-nirdeśa Verses 1-3
V1. Wisdom is knowing the Three Natures:
1. The imagined (parikalpita) 2. The other-dependent (paratantra) 3. The ‘totally perfect’ (pariniṣpanna)
V2. Whatever appears (yat khyāti) is other-dependent (#2) The way it appears (yathā khyāti) is imagination only (kalpanāmātra) (#1)
V3. The eternal nonexistence of what appears in the way it appears is [the] totally perfect (#3)
PART TWO: Unreal Imagination
V4
tatra kiṃ khyāty asatkalpaḥ kathaṃ khyāti dvayātmanā / tasya kā nāstitā tena yā tatrādvayadharmatā //
Whatever appears is asatkalpaḥ (’unreal imagination’) How it appears is as duality (dvaya). If that is non-existent (nāstitā) There is advaya-dharmatā (’dharmic principle of non-duality’)
PART THREE: Mind / Citta
V5
asatkalpo'tra kaś cittaṃ yatas tat kalpyate yatha / yathā ca kalpayaty artham tathātyantaṃ na vidyate //
What is meant by ‘unreal imagination’ (asatkalpaḥ)? It is mind (citta), for by it there is the imagined (kalpa). What is imagined absolutely never exists in the way it is imagined.
V6
tadd hetuphalabhāvena cittaṃ dvivibhav iṣyate / yadālayākhyaṃ vijñānaṃ pravṛttyākhyaṃ ca saptadhā //
Mind (citta) takes on two modes, as cause and effect (hetu-phala), It is then respectively called the store-consciousness (ālayā-vijñāna) and the active consciousness (pravṛtti-vijñāna), the latter being seven-fold.
V7
saṃkleśavāsanābījaiś citatvāc cittamucyate / cittam ādyaṃ dvitīyaṃ tu citrākārapravṛttitaḥ //
The first is called citta, meaning 'collected' because in it are collected (cita) the seeds (bīja) of defilements (kleśa) and habits (vāsanā); The second, however, is called citta, because it acts in diverse (citra) ways. [7]
PART FOUR: Three modes of Unreal Imagination / Mind
V8
samāsato'bhūtakalpaḥ sa caisa trividho mataḥ / vaipākikas tathā naimittiko'nyaḥ prātibhāsikaḥ //
Collectively, this unreal false imagination (abhūta-kalpa) is considered to be three-fold: The fruition (vaipākika), the causal (naimittika), and the mere appearance (prātibhāsika).
vaipākika [fr. vipāka+ika (vi+pac), to ‘cook’ or ‘roast’); mature, ripen - the fruition.
naimittika [fr. naimitta, characteristic, quality, attribute, lakṣaṇa] - the causal or conditional
prātibhāsika [prāti+bhāsika, common or vernacular speech] - the conventional
V9
prathamo mūlavijñānaṃ tad vipākātmakaṃ yataḥ / anyaḥ pravṛttivijñānaṃ dṛśyadṛgvittivṛttinaḥ //
Of them, the first is the root consciousness (mūlavijñāna), because its nature is to become matured; The other [seven] are the active consciousness, for they are the active cognition of seer and seen.