What kind of effort can avail
to disclose the eternally self-resplendent consciousness?
Being coated with the thick crust of infinite vasanas
it is not easily perceived.
The incrustation must first be soaked
in the running stream of mind control
and carefully scraped off with the sharp chisel of investigation.
Then one must turn the closed urn of crystal quartz -
namely, the mind cleanses in the aforesaid manner -
on the grinding wheel of alertness
and finally open the lid with the lever of discrimination.
-Tripura Rahasya