Verse 138Nonduality
The Fourfold Nature Fades into Bhairava
Bhairava
Here the text lists the main pieces of ordinary experience—mind, awareness, energy, and self. When their separate feeling is worn out or dissolved, what remains is not emptiness in a negative sense but the living reality of Bhairava. It is like realizing that many waves are really just one ocean.
मानसं चेतना शक्तिरात्मा चेति चतुष्टयम् । यदा प्रिये पवरक्षीणं तदा तद्भैरवं वपुः ॥ १३८ ॥
mānasaṃ cetanā śaktir ātmā ceti catuṣṭayam | yadā priye pari-kṣīṇaṃ tadā tad bhairavaṃ vapuḥ || 138 ||
Translation
Mind, awareness, power, and self: this fourfold set, when fully exhausted, O beloved, becomes the body of Bhairava.
To dissolve the fourfold structure of ordinary experience so the practitioner recognizes the totality as Bhairava.