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The Crest Jewel of Wisdom
a translation by John Richards (jhr@elidor.demon.co.uk)
presented as a public domain document on the Internet
16/05/98
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ev:v:ðkc:ÜRam:eN:
The Crest Jewel of Wisdom
s:v:üv:ðdant:es:¹ant:g::ðc:rö t:m:Î Ag::ðc:rm:Î
g::ðev:ndö p:rm:an:ndö s:·Û,ö )N:t::ðsmy:Î Ahm:Î. 1
I prostrate myself before Govinda, the true Guru and ultimate Bliss,
who is the unattainable resort of all scriptures and Vedanta. 1
j:nt:Ün:aö n:rj:nm: dÙl:üB:m:Î At:H p:Øöstv:ö t:t::ð ev:)t:a
t:sm:adÏ v:òedkD:m:üm:ag:üp:rt:a ev:¾¶v:m:Î Asm:at:Î p:rm:Î
A:tm:an:atm:ev:v:ðc:n:ö sv:n:ØB:v::ð b:ÒÉatm:n:a s:öesT:et:H
m:ØeVt:rÎ n::ð S:t:j:nm:k:ðeXs:Økát:òH p:ØNy:òrÎ ev:n:a l:By:t:ð. 2
Human nature is the hardest of creaturely states to obtain, even
more so that of manhood. Brahminhood is rarer still, and beyond that
dedication to the path of Vedic religion. Beyond even that there is
discrimination between self and nonself, but liberation by
persistence in the state of the unity of God and self is not to be
achieved except by the meritorious deeds of hundreds of thousands of
lives. 2
dÙl:üB:ö *:y:m:Î Ov:òt:dÏ dðv:an:Øg:Òhhðt:Økm:Î
m:n:Ø\y:tv:ö m:Øm:Øx:Øtv:ö m:hap:Ø,\:s:öÂ:y:H. 3
These three things are hard to achieve, and are attained only by the
grace of God human nature, the desire for liberation, and finding
refuge with a great sage. 3
l:bDv:a kT:öec:n:Î n:rj:nm: dÙl:üB:ö
t:*:aep: p:Øöstv:ö Â:Øet:p:ardS:ün:m:Î
y:s:Î tv:atm:m:ØVt::ò n: y:t:ðt: m:ÜZD:iH
s: Êatm:ha sv:ö ev:en:hnty:Î As:dÏg:Òhat:Î. 4
He is a suicide who has somehow achieved human birth and even
manhood and full knowledge of the scriptures but does not strive for
selfliberation, for he destroys himself by clinging to the unreal. 4
Et:H k:ð nv:Î Aest: m:ÜZatm:a y:s:Î t:Ø sv:aT:ðü )m:a½et:
dÙl:üB:ö m:an:Ø\:ö dðhö )apy: t:*:aep: p::ò,\:m:Î. 5
Who could be more foolish than the man who has achieved the
difficult attainment of a human body and even manhood but still
neglects his true good? 5
v:dnt:Ø S:as*:aeN: y:j:nt:Ø dðv:an:Î
kÙv:ünt:Ø km:aüeN: B:j:nt:Ø dðv:t:aH
A:tm:òVy:b::ðD:ðn: ev:n:aep: m:ØeVt:H
n: es:Dy:et: b:ÒÉS:t:ant:rðep:. 6
People may quote the scriptures, make sacrifices to the gods,
perform actions and pay homage to the deities, but there is no
liberation without recognising the oneness of ones own true being
not even in the lifetime of a hundred Brahmas (countless millions of
years). 6
Am:àt:tv:sy: n:aS:aest: ev:¶:ðn:ðty:Î Ov: eh Â:Øet:H
b:Òv:iet: km:üN::ð m:ØVt:ðrÎ Ahðt:Øtv:ö sPÙXö y:t:H. 7
Scripture declares that there is no hope of immortality by means of
wealth, so it is evident that liberation cannot be brought about by
actions. 7
At::ð ev:m:ØVty:ò )y:t:ðt:Î ev:¾an:Î
s:öny:st:b:aÊaT:üs:ØK:sp:àhH s:n:Î
s:nt:ö m:hant:ö s:m:Øp:ðty: dðeS:kö
t:ðn::ðp:edÄaT:üs:m:aeht:atm:a. 8
So let the man of understanding strive for liberation, abandoning
desire for the enjoyment of external aims and pleasures, and after
becoming the pupil of a good and great teacher, let him fix his mind
on the goal he indicates. 8
u¹rðdÏ A:tm:n:atm:an:ö m:gn:ö s:ös:arv:aerD::ò
y::ðg:a-Ztv:m:Î A:s:a½ s:my:gdS:ün:en:Åy:a. 9
Sunk in the sea of samsara, one should oneself rouse oneself by
holding onto right understanding until one reaches the state of the
attainment of union. 9
s:öny:sy: s:v:ükm:aüeN: B:v:b:nD:ev:m:ØVt:y:ð
y:ty:t:aö p:eNRt:òrÎ D:iròrÎ A:tm:aBy:as: up:esT:t:òH. 10
Abandoning all actions and breaking free from the bonds of
achievements, the wise and intelligent should apply themselves to
selfknowledge. 10
ec:¶:sy: S:عy:ð km:ü n: t:Ø v:st:Üp:l:bD:y:ð
v:st:Øes:e¹rÎ ev:c:arðN: n: eköec:t:Î km:ük:ðeXeB:H. 11
Action is for the purification of the mind, not for the
understanding of reality. The recognition of reality is through
discrimination, and not by even tens of millions of actions. 11
s:my:egv:c:art:H es:¹a rjj:Øt:¶v:av:D:arN:a
B:Òant::ðedt:m:has:p:üB:y:dÙHK:ev:n:aeS:n:i. 12
Proper analysis leads to the realisation of the reality of the rope,
and this is the end of the pain of the fear of the great snake
caused by delusion. 12
AT:üsy: en:Á:y::ð dáÄ:ð ev:c:arðN: eht::ðeVt:t:H
n: sn:an:ðn: n: dan:ðn: )aN:ay:m:S:t:ðn: v:a. 13
The realisation of the truth is seen to depend on meditation on
statements about what is good, not on bathing or donations or by
hundreds of yogic breathing exercises. 13
AeD:kaerN:m:Î A:S:ast:ð Pl:es:e¹rÎ ev:S:ð\:t:H
up:ay:a dðS:kal:a½aH s:nty:Î Aesm:n:Î s:hkaerN:H. 14
Achievement of the goal depends primarily on a fit seeker. Things
like locality and time are merely secondary in this matter. 14
At::ð ev:c:arH kt:üvy::ð ej:jW:as::ðrÎ A:tm:v:st:Øn:H
s:m:as:a½ dy:aes:nD:Øö g:Ø,ö b:ÒÉev:dÏ u¶:m:m:Î. 15
So he who would know his own nature should practise meditation on
the subject after taking refuge with a guru who is a true knower of
God and an ocean of compassion. 15
m:ðD:av:i p:Ø,\::ð ev:¾an:Î uhap::ðhev:c:x:N:H
AeD:kay:aütm:ev:½ay:a m:ØVt:l:x:N:l:ex:t:H. 16
It is the wise and learned man, skilled in sorting out the pros and
cons of an argument who is really endowed with the qualities
necessary for selfrealisation. 16
ev:v:ðekn::ð ev:rVt:sy: S:m:aedg:ØN:S:ael:n:H
m:Øm:Øx::ðrÎ Ov: eh b:ÒÉej:jW:as:ay::ðgy:t:a m:t:a. 17
Discriminating and dispassionate, endowed with peace and similar
qualities, and longing for liberation such is the man who is
considered fit to practise seeking for God. 17
s:aD:n:any:Î A*: c:tv:aer keT:t:aen: m:n:ie\:eB:H
y:ð\:Ø s:tsv:Î Ov: s:eÀÅa y:dÏ AB:av:ð n: es:Dy:et:. 18
The wise talk here of four qualities, possessed of which one will
succeed, but without which one will fail. 18
A:d:ò en:ty:aen:ty:v:st:Øev:v:ðkH p:erg:Ny:t:ð
Eham:Ø*:Pl:B::ðg:ev:rag:s:Î t:dÏ An:nt:rm:Î
S:m:aed\:«s:mp:e¶:rÎ m:Øm:Øx:Øtv:m:Î Eet: sPÙXm:Î. 19
First is listed discrimination between unchanging and changing
realities, and after that dispassion for the enjoyment of the fruits
of action both here and hereafter, and then the group of six
qualities including peace and of course the desire for liberation.
19
b:ÒÉ s:ty:ö j:g:n:Î em:Ty:ðty:Î Ov:ö-p::ð ev:en:Á:y:H
s::ðy:ö en:ty:aen:ty:v:st:Øev:v:ðkH s:m:ØdaÆt:H. 20
"God is the Truth and the world is unreal." It is this realisation
that is considered discrimination between the permanent and the
impermanent. 20
t:dÏ v:òragy:ö ej:has:a y:a dS:ün:Â:v:N:aedeB:H
dðhaedb:ÒÉp:y:ünt:ð Êen:ty:ð B::ðg:v:st:Øen:. 21
Dispassion is the turning away from what can be seen and heard and
so on in everything which is impermanent, from the body up to the
highest heavenly states. 21
ev:rjy: ev:\:y:v:Òat:adÏ d:ð\:dá\®a m:ØhÚrÎ m:ØhÚH
sv:l:xy:ð en:y:t:av:sT:a m:n:s:H S:m: ucy:t:ð. 22
The settling of the mind in its goal, by turning away from the mass
of objects by repeatedly observing their drawbacks, is known as
peace. 22
ev:\:y:ðBy:H p:rav:ty:ü sT:ap:n:ö sv:sv:g::ðl:kñ
uB:y:ð\:am:Î EendÓy:aN:aö s: dm:H p:erkiet:üt:H
b:aÊan:al:mb:n:ö v:à¶:ðrÎ O\::ðp:ret:rÎ u¶:m:a. 23
The establishment of the senses each in its own source by means of
turning away from their objects is known as control. The supreme
restraint is in the mind function not being involved in anything
external. 23
s:hn:ö s:v:üdÙHK:an:am:Î A)t:ikarp:Üv:ükm:Î
ec:nt:aev:l:ap:reht:ö s:a et:et:x:a en:g:½t:ð. 24
Bearing all afflictions without reaction and without mental
disturbance is what is known as patience. 24
S:as*:sy: g:Ø,v:aVy:sy: s:ty:b:عÐy:v:D:arN:m:Î
s:a Â:¹a keT:t:a s:e»y:üy:a v:st:Üp:l:By:t:ð. 25
The holding on to the knowledge of the truth of the scriptures and
the gurus teaching is called faith. It is by means of this that
reality is grasped. 25
s:v:üda sT:ap:n:ö b:عðH S:عð b:ÒÉeN: s:v:üda
t:t:Î s:m:aD:an:m:Î Ety:Î uVt:ö n: t:Ø ec:¶:sy: l:al:n:m:Î. 26
The continual holding onto the awareness of God alone continually,
is known as concentration not just mental self gratification. 26
Ahökaraeddðhant:an:Î b:nD:an:Î AjW:an:kelp:t:an:Î
sv:sv:-p:av:b::ðD:ðn: m::ðVt:Øm:Î EcCa m:Øm:Øx:Øt:a. 27
The wish to be freed by the knowledge of ones true nature from such
bonds as seeing oneself as the agent, which are contingent on the
body and created by ignorance this is desire for liberation. 27
m:ndm:Dy:m:-p:aep: v:òragy:ðN: S:m:aedn:a
)s:adðn: g:Ør:ðH s:ðy:ö )v:à¹a s:Üy:t:ð Pl:m:Î. 28
This desire for liberation can bear fruit through dispassion,
peacefulness etc. by the grace of the guru, even when only weak or
mediocre. 28
v:òragy:ö c: m:Øm:Øx:Øtv:ö t:iv:Òö y:sy: t:Ø ev:½t:ð
t:esm:n:Î n:ðv:aT:üv:nt:H sy:ØH Pl:v:nt:H S:m:ady:H. 29
It is in a man who has strong dispassion and desire for liberation
though that peacefulness and so on are really fruitful. 29
Ot:y::ðrÎ m:ndt:a y:*: ev:rVt:tv:m:Øm:Øx:y::ðH
m:r:ò s:l:il:v:t:Î t:*: S:m:adðrÎ B:an:m:a*:t:a. 30
But where there is a weakness in these qualities of renunciation and
desire for liberation, apparent peacefulness and such like have as
much substance as water in the desert. 30
m::ðx:karN:s:am:gy:aö B:eVt:rÎ Ov: g:riy:s:i
sv:sv:-p:an:Øs:nD:an:ö B:eVt:rÎ Ety:Î AeB:D:iy:t:ð. 31
Among the contributory factors of liberation, devotion stands
supreme, and it is the search for ones own true nature that is meant
by devotion. 31
sv:atm:t:¶v:an:Øs:nD:an:ö B:eVt:rÎ Ety:Î Ap:rð j:g:ØH
uVt:s:aD:n:s:öp:Às:Î t:¶v:ej:jW:as:ØrÎ A:tm:n:H
up:s:idðdÏ g:Ø,ö )ajWy:ö y:sm:adÏ b:nD:ev:m::ðx:N:m:Î. 32
Others say that devotion is inquiry into the reality of ones own
nature. He who possesses the above qualities and would know the
truth about his own nature should take refuge with a wise guru who
can free him from his bonds. 32
Â::ðe*:y::ðv:àej:n::ðkam:ht::ð y::ð b:ÒÉev:¶:m:H
b:ÒÉNy:Î up:rt:H S:ant::ð en:ernD:n: Ev:an:l:H
Ahðt:Økdy:aes:nD:ØrÎ b:nD:ØrÎ A:n:m:t:aö s:t:am:Î. 33
The guru should be one who knows the scriptures, is blameless, not
overcome by sensuality, and a supreme knower of God. He should be at
peace in God, tranquil as a fire that has run out of fuel. He should
be a boundless ocean of compassion and the friend of those who seek
his protection. 33
t:m:Î A:raDy: g:Ø,ö B:Vty:a )Í)Â:y:s:ðv:n:òH
)s:Àö t:m:Î An:Ø)apy: p:àcCðj:Î jW:at:vy:m:Î A:tm:n:H. 34
After prostrating oneself with devotion before the guru and
satisfying him with prostrations, humble devotion and service, one
should ask him what one needs to know. 34
sv:aem:n:Î n:m:st:ð n:t:l::ðkb:nD::ð
ka,Ny:es:nD::ð p:et:t:ö B:v:abD::ò
m:am:Î u¹ratm:iy:kXax:dá\®a
?jvy:aet:ka,Ny:s:ØD:aeB:v:à\®a. 35
Hail, lord, friend of those who bow before you, and ocean of
compassion. I have fallen into this sea of samsara. Save me with a
direct glance from your eye which bestows grace like nectar. 35
dÙv:aürs:ös:ardv:aegn:t:pt:ö
d:ðD:Üy:m:an:ö dÙrdáÄv:at:òH
B:it:ö )p:Àö p:erp:aeh m:àty::ðH
S:rNy:m:Î Any:dÏ y:dÏ Ahö n: j:an:ð. 36
I am stricken by the unquenchable forest fire of samsara and blown
about by the unavoidable winds of circumstances. Save me from death,
for I am afraid and have come to you for refuge. I know of no one
else to help me. 36
S:ant:a m:hant::ð en:v:s:ent: s:nt::ð
v:s:nt:v:l:Î l::ðkeht:ö c:rnt:H
t:iN:aüH sv:y:ö B:im:B:v:aN:üv:ö j:n:an:Î
Ahðt:Øn:any:an:Î Aep: t:ary:nt:H. 37
Good and peaceful, great men living for the good of all, and having
themselves crossed the fearful torrent of becoming, with no ulterior
motive help others to cross too . 37
Ay:ö sv:B:av:H sv:t: Ov: y:tp:r
Â:m:ap:n::ðd)v:N:ö m:hatm:n:am:Î
s:ØD:aö S:Ørð\: sv:y:m:Î AkýkkýS:
)B:aeB:t:pt:am:Î Av:et: ex:et:ö ekl:. 38
It is the nature of great souls to act spontaneously for the relief
of the distress of others, just as the moon here of itself protects
the earth parched by the heat of the fierce rays of the sun. 38
b:ÒÉan:ndrs:an:ØB:Üet:kel:t:òH p:Üt:òüH s:ØS:it:òrÎ y:Øt:òH
y:Ø\m:dÏ v:aVkl:S::ðj:Î eJ:t:òH Â:Øet:s:ØK:òrÎ v:aVy:am:àt:òH s:ðc:y:
s:öt:pt:ö B:v:t:ap:dav:dhn:jv:al:aeB:rÎ On:ö )B::ð
D:ny:ast:ð B:v:dix:N:x:N:g:t:ðH p:a*:ikát:aH sv:ikát:aH. 39
Pour upon me your sweet words, imbued with the taste of Gods bliss.
They spring from your lips as if poured out of a jug, and are
pleasing to the ear. For I am tormented by samsaras afflictions,
like the flames of a forest fire, Lord. Blessed are those who
receive even a passing glance from your eyes. 39
kT:ö t:rðy:ö B:v:es:nD:Øm:Î Ot:ö
ka v:a g:et:rÎ m:ð kt:m::ðsty:Î up:ay:H
j:an:ð n: ekeWc:t:Î káp:y:av: m:aö )B::ð
s:ös:ardÙHK:x:et:m:Î A:t:n:Ø\v:. 40
How can I cross this sea of changing circumstances? What should I
do, what means employ? In your mercy, Lord, show me how to end the
pain of samsara, for I understand nothing. 40
t:T:a v:dnt:ö S:rN:ag:t:ö sv:ö
s:ös:ardav:an:l:t:ap:t:pt:m:Î
en:rixy: ka,Ny:rs:adÓüdá\®a
d½adB:iet:ö s:hs:a m:hatm:a. 41
As he said this, tormented by the forest fire of samsara, the great
sage looked at him with a gaze full of compassion, urging him to
abandon fear, now that he had taken refuge in him. 41
ev:¾an:Î s: t:sm:a up:s:e¶:m:Î Iy:Ø\:ð
m:Øm:Øx:v:ð s:aD:Ø y:T::ðVt:kaerN:ð
)S:ant:ec:¶:ay: S:m:aenv:t:ay:
t:¶v::ðp:dðS:ö káp:y:òv: kÙy:aüt:Î. 42
Out of compassion the sage undertakes his instruction since he has
come to him for help in his search for liberation, is willing to do
as he is told, is pacified of mind and calm. 42
m:a B:òÄ ev:¾ö st:v: n:asty:Î Ap:ay:H
s:ös:ares:nD::ðs:Î t:rN:ðsty:Øp:ay:H
y:ðn:òv: y:at:a y:t:y::ðsy: p:arö
t:m:Î Ov: m:ag:üö t:v: en:edüS:aem:. 43
Dont be afraid, learned one. Destruction is not for you. There is
indeed a means of crossing the sea of samsara, the way taken by
which those who have crossed over before, and I will now instruct
you in it. 43
Asty:Î up:ay::ð m:han:Î keÁ:t:Î s:ös:arB:y:n:aS:n:H
t:ðn: t:itv:aü B:v:amB::ðeD:ö p:rm:an:ndm:Î A:psy:es:. 44
There is a great means which puts an end to the fear of samsara.
Crossing the sea of change by means of it, you will achieve the
ultimate bliss. 44
v:ðdant:aT:üev:c:arðN: j:ay:t:ð jW:an:m:Î u¶:m:m:Î
t:ðn:aty:ent:ks:ös:ardÙHK:n:aS::ð B:v:ty:Î An:Ø. 45
Supreme understanding springs from meditating on the meaning of
Vedanta, and that is followed immediately by the elimination of the
pain of samsara. 45
Â:¹aB:eVt:Dy:an:y::ðg:an:Î m:Øm:Øx::ðH
m:ØVt:ðrÎ hðt:Ün:Î v:eVt: s:ax:ac:Î CÕÚt:ðrÎ g:iH
y::ð v:a Ot:ð\v:Î Ov: et:Åty:Î Am:Ø\y:
m::ðx::ðev:½akelp:t:adÏ dðhb:nD:at:Î. 46
The practice of faith, devotion and meditation are declared by
scripture to be the means to liberation for a seeker after
liberation. He who perseveres in these will achieve freedom from the
bondage to the body, created by ignorance. 46
AjW:an:y::ðg:at:Î p:rm:atm:n:s:Î t:v:
ÊÐ An:atm:b:nD:s:Î t:t: Ov: s:ös:àet:H
t:y::ðrÎ ev:v:ðk:ðedt:b::ðD:v:eÈH
AjW:an:kay:üö )dhðt:Î s:m:Ül:m:Î. 47
Linked with ignorance, your supreme self has become involved in the
bonds of non self, and from that in samsara. The fire of the
knowledge born from discriminating between these two will burn out
the consequences of ignorance along with its very root. 47
eS:\y: uv:ac:
The disciple
káp:y:a Â:Üy:t:aö sv:aem:n:Î )Sn::ðy:ö e#y:t:ð m:y:a
y:dÏ u¶:rm:Î Ahö Â:Øtv:a kát:aT:üH sy:aö B:v:nm:ØK:at:Î. 48
Out of compassion hear this question I put to you, so that when I
have heard the reply from your lips I will be able to put it into
practice. 48
k:ð n:am: b:nD:H kT:m:Î O\: A:g:t:H
kT:ö )et:Åasy: kT:ö ev:m::ðx:H
k:ðs:av:n:atm:a p:rm:H k A:tm:a
t:y::ðrÎ ev:v:ðkH kT:m:Î Ot:dÏ ucy:t:am:Î. 49
What exactly is bondage? How does it come about and remain? How is
one freed from it? What exactly is non self? What is the Supreme
Self? And how does one discriminate between them? Explain this to
me. 49
Â:ig:Ø,rÎ uv:ac:
The guru
D:ny::ðes: kát:káty::ðes: p:aev:t: t:ð kÙl:ö tv:y:a
y:dÏ Aev:½ab:nD:m:ØVty:a b:ÒÉiB:ev:t:Øm:Î EcCes:. 50
You are indeed blessed, for you have achieved the true purpose of
life and sanctified your family, in that you seek deification by
liberation from the bonds of ignorance. 50
?N:m::ðc:n:kt:aürH ep:t:ØH s:ent: s:Øt:ady:H
b:nD:m::ðc:n:kt:aü t:Ø sv:sm:adÏ Any::ð n: kÁ:n:. 51
Sons and suchlike are able free their father from debts, but noone
can free someone else from bondage. 51
m:st:kny:st:B:aradðrÎ dÙHK:m:Î Any:òrÎ en:v:ay:üt:ð
x:ØD:aedkát:dÙHK:ö t:Ø ev:n:a sv:ðn: n: kñn:ec:t:Î. 52
The pain of something like a weight on the head can be removed by
others, but the pain of things like hunger can be put an end to by
noone but oneself. 52
p:Ty:m::ò\:D:s:ðv:a c: e#y:t:ð y:ðn: r:ðeg:N:a
A:r:ðgy:es:e¹rÎ dáÄasy: n:any:an:ØeÅt:km:üN:a. 53
A sick man is seen to get better by taking the appropriate medicine
not through treatment undertaken by others. 53
v:st:Øsv:-p:ö sPÙXb::ðD:c:x:Ø\:a
sv:ðn:òv: v:ð½ö n: t:Ø p:eNRt:ðn:
c:ndÓsv:-p:ö en:j:c:x:Ø\:òv:
jW:at:vy:m:Î Any:òrÎ Av:g:my:t:ð ekm:Î. 54
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not
just by a scholar. What the moon is like must be seen with ones own
eyes. How can others do it for you? 54
Aev:½akam:km:aüedp:aS:b:nD:ö ev:m::ðec:t:Øm:Î
kH S:Vn:Øy:adÏ ev:n:atm:an:ö klp:k:ðeXS:t:òrÎ Aep:. 55
Who but yourself can free you from the bonds of the fetters of
things like ignorance, lust and the consequences of your actions
even in hundreds of thousands of years? 55
n: y::ðg:ðn: n: s:aöKy:ðn: km:üN:a n::ð n: ev:½y:a
b:ÒÉatm:òktv:b::ðD:ðn: m::ðx:H es:Dy:et: n:any:T:a. 56
Liberation is achieved not by observances or by analysis, nor by
deeds or learning, but only by the realisation of ones oneness with
God, and by no other means. 56
v:iN:ay:a -p:s::òndy:üö t:n*:iv:adn:s::òÅv:m:Î
)j:arWj:n:m:a*:ö t:n:Î n: s:am:Òajy:ay: klp:t:ð. 57
The beauty of a lute and skill in playing its cords can bring some
pleasure to people but can hardly make you a king. 57
v:agv:òK:ri S:bdJ:ri S:as*:vy:aKy:an:Î Ak:òS:l:m:Î
v:òdÙ\y:ö ev:dÙ\:aö t:¾dÏ B:ØVt:y:ð n: t:Ø m:ØVt:y:ð. 58
In the same way, speech alone, even a deluge of words, with
scholarship and skill in commenting on the scriptures, may achieve
some personal satisfaction but not liberation. 58
Aev:jW:at:ð p:rð t:¶v:ð S:as*:aD:iet:s:Î t:Ø en:\Pl:a
ev:jW:at:ðep: p:rð t:¶v:ð S:as*:aD:iet:s:Î t:Ø en:\Pl:a. 59
When the supreme reality is not understood, the study of the
scriptures is useless, and study of the scriptures is useless when
the supreme reality has been understood. 59
S:bdj:al:ö m:harNy:ö ec:¶:B:Òm:N:karN:m:Î
At:H )y:tn:aj:Î jW:at:vy:ö t:¶v:jW:òs:Î t:¶v:m:Î A:tm:n:H. 60
The tangle of words is a great forest which leads the mind off
wandering about, so wise men should strive to get to know the truth
about their own nature. 60
AjW:an:s:p:üdÄsy: b:ÒÉjW:an::ò\:D:ö ev:n:a
ekm:Ø v:ðdòS:Î c: S:as*:òS:Î c: ekm:Ø m:n*:òH ekm:Î A:ò\:D:òH. 61
Except for the medicine of the knowledge of God, what use are Vedas,
scriptures, mantras and such medicines when you have been bitten by
the snake of ignorance? 61
n: g:cCet: ev:n:a p:an:ö vy:aeD:rÎ A:ò\:D:S:bdt:H
ev:n:ap:r:ðx:an:ØB:v:ö b:ÒÉS:bdòrÎ n: m:Øcy:t:ð. 62
An illness is not cured just by pronouncing the name of the medicine
without drinking it, and you will not be liberated by just
pronouncing the word God without direct experience. 62
Akátv:a dáSy:ev:l:y:m:Î AjW:atv:a t:¶v:m:Î A:tm:n:H
b:ÒÉS:bdòH kÙt::ð m:ØeVt:rÎ ueVt:m:a*:Pl:òrÎ n:àN:am:Î. 63
How can one reach liberation by just pronouncing the word God
without achieving the elimination of the visible universe and
realising the truth about ones own nature? It will just be a waste
of speech. 63
Akátv:a S:*:Øs:öharm:Î Ag:tv:aeK:l:B:ÜeÂ:y:m:Î
raj:ahm:Î Eet: S:bdan:Î n::ð raj:a B:ev:t:Øm:Î Ahüet:. 64
One cannot become a king just by saying, "I am the king," without
defeating ones enemies and taking possession of the country. 64
A:pt::ðeVt:ö K:n:n:ö t:T::ðp:ereS:l:a½Øtk\:üN:ö sv:ikáet:ö
en:x:ðp:H s:m:p:ðx:t:ð n: eh b:ehH S:bdòs:Î t:Ø en:g:ücCet:
t:¾dÏ b:ÒÉev:dÏ A:ðp:dðS:m:n:n:Dy:an:aedeB:rÎ l:By:t:ð
m:ay:akay:üet:r:ðeht:ö sv:m:Î Am:l:ö t:¶v:ö n: dÙy:ØüeVt:eB:H. 65
A buried treasure cannot be got out just by calling it, but needs a
good map, digging, removal of obstructing stones and so on to get at
it. In the same way the pure reality, hidden by the effects of Maya,
cannot be achieved by the wrong practices, but by instruction from a
knower of God, reflection, meditation and so on. 65
t:sm:at:Î s:v:ü)y:tn:ðn: B:v:b:nD:ev:m:ØVt:y:ð
sv:òrÎ Ov: y:tn:H kt:üvy::ð r:ðg:adav:Î Ev: p:eNRt:òH. 66
So the wise should strive with all their ability for liberation from
the bonds of samsara, as they would in the case of sickness and
things like that. 66
y:s:Î tv:y:a½ kát:H )Sn::ð v:riy:aW:Î Cas*:ev:n:Î m:t:H
s:Ü*:)ay::ð en:g:ÜZaT::ðü jW:at:vy:S:Î c: m:Øm:Øx:ØeB:H. 67
The question you have asked today is a good one in the opinion of
those learned in the scriptures, to the point and full of meaning.
It needs to be understood by those seeking liberation. 67
S:àN:Ø\v:av:eht::ð ev:¾n:Î y:n:Î m:y:a s:m:Ødiy:üt:ð
t:dÏ Ot:c:Î CÕv:N:at:Î s:½:ð B:v:b:nD:adÏ ev:m::ðxy:s:ð. 68
Listen careful to what I say, learned one. By hearing this you will
be freed from the bonds of change. 68
m::ðx:sy: hðt:ØH )T:m::ð en:g:½t:ð
v:òragy:m:Î Aty:nt:m:Î Aen:ty:v:st:Ø\:Ø
t:t:H S:m:S:Î c:aep: dm:s:Î et:et:x:a
ny:as:H )s:Vt:aeK:l:km:üN:aö B:àS:m:Î. 69
The primary basis of liberation is held to be total dispassion for
everything impermanent, and after that peacefulness, restraint,
patience, and the complete renunciation of scriptural observances.
69
t:t:H S:àet:s:Î t:nm:n:n:ö s:t:¶v:
Dy:an:ö ec:rö en:ty:en:rnt:rö m:Øn:ðH
t:t::ðev:klp:ö p:rm:ðty: ev:¾an:Î
Ehòv: en:v:aüN:s:ØK:ö s:m:àcCet:. 70
After that the practicant finds there comes listening, reflection on
what one has heard, and long meditation on the truth. Then the wise
man will experience the supreme nondual state and come here and now
to the bliss of Nirvana. 70
y:dÏ b::ð¹vy:ö t:v:ðdan:im:atm:an:atm:ev:v:ðc:n:m:Î
t:dÏ ucy:t:ð m:y:a s:my:kÏ Â:Øtv:atm:ny:Î Av:D:ary:. 71
When you have heard me fully explain what you need to know about the
discrimination between self and nonself, then bear it in mind. 71
m:jj:aesT:m:ðdHp:l:rVt:c:m:ü
tv:g:aÍy:òrÎ D:at:ØeB:rÎ OeB:rÎ Aenv:t:m:Î
p:ad:ð,v:x::ðB:Øj:p:àÅm:Î Ast:kóH
A¤órÎ up:a¤órÎ up:y:ØVt:m:Î Ot:t:Î. 72
Ahö m:m:ðet: )eT:t:ö S:rirö
m::ðhasp:dö sT:Ül:m:Î Et:iy:üt:ð b:ØD:òH
n:B::ðn:B:sv:¸hn:amb:ØB:Üm:y:H
s:Üxm:aeN: B:Üt:aen: B:v:ent: t:aen:. 73
The body, constituted of marrow, bone, fat, flesh, blood, ligament
and skin, and composed of feet, legs, chest, arms, back and head,
is the seat of the "I" and "mine" delusion, and is known as the
physical body by the wise, while space, air, fire, water and earth
are the subtle elements. 72, 73
p:rsp:raöS:òrÎ em:el:t:aen: B:Ütv:a
sT:Ül:aen: c: sT:Ül:S:rirhðt:v:H
m:a*:ast:diy:a ev:\:y:a B:v:ent:
S:bdady:H p:Wc: s:ØK:ay: B::ðVt:ØH. 74
When these various elements are combined, they form the physical
body, while in themselves they constitute the objects of the senses,
the five types of sound and so on, for the enjoyment of the
individual. 74
y: O\:Ø m:ÜZa ev:\:y:ð\:Ø b:¹a
rag::ðrÎ up:aS:ðn: s:ØdÙdüm:ðn:
A:y:aent: en:y:aünty:Î AD: UDv:üm:Î ucc:òH
sv:km:üdÏ Ut:ðn: j:v:ðn: n:it:aH. 75
The ignorant who are bound to the senses by the strong, hardly
breakable bonds of desire, are borne here and there, up and down,
dragged about by their own karmic impulses. 75
S:bdaedeB:H p:Wc:eB:rÎ Ov: p:Wc:
p:Wc:tv:m:Î A:p:ØH sv:g:ØN:ðn: b:¹aH
kÙr¤m:at:¤p:t:¤m:in:
B:à¤a n:rH p:Wc:eB:rÎ AeWc:t:H ekm:Î. 76
Deer, elephant, moth, fish and wasp, these five have all died from
their attachment to one of the five senses, sound etc., so what
about the man who is attached to all five! 76
d:ð\:ðN: t:iv:Ò:ð ev:\:y:H ká\N:s:p:üev:\:adÏ Aep:
ev:\:ö en:hent: B::ðVt:arö dÓÄarö c:x:Ø\:apy:y:m:Î. 77
The effect of the senses is more deadly than even that of a cobra.
Their poison kills a man who only just looks at them with his eyes.
77
ev:\:y:aS:am:hap:aS:a½:ð ev:m:ØVt:H s:ØdÙsty:j:at:Î
s: Ov: klp:t:ð m:ØVty:ò n:any:H \:XÏS:as*:v:ð½Î Aep:. 78
Only he who is free from the terrible hankering after the senses
which is so hard to overcome is fit for liberation, and noone else,
not even if he is an expert in the six branches of scripture. 78
A:p:at:v:òragy:v:t::ð m:Øm:Øx:Ün:Î
B:v:aebD: p:arö )et:y:at:Øm:Î u½t:an:Î
A:S:ag:Òh:ð m:jj:y:t:ðnt:ral:ð
en:g:àÊ kNYð ev:en:v:ty:ü v:ðg:at:Î. 79
The shark of longing grasps those whose desire for liberation is
only superficial by the throat as they try to cross the sea of
samsara and drowns them halfway. 79
ev:\:y:aKy:g:Òh:ð y:ðn: s:Øev:rVty:Î Aes:n:a ht:H
s: g:cCet: B:v:am:Î B::ðD:ðH p:arö )ty:Ühv:ej:üt:H. 80
He who has killed the shark of the senses with the sword of firm
dispassion can cross the sea of samsara without impediment. 80
ev:\:m:ev:\:y:m:ag:òürÎ g:cCt::ðn:cCb:عðH
)et:p:dm:Î AeB:y:at::ð m:àty:ØrÎ Apy:Î O\: ev:e¹
eht:s:Øj:n:g:Ø-Vty:a g:cCt:H sv:sy: y:ØVty:a
)B:v:et: Pl:es:e¹H s:ty:m:Î Ety:Î Ov: ev:e¹. 81
Realise that death quickly waylays the senseless man who follows the
uneven way of the senses, but that man achieves his purpose who
follows the guidance of a true, compassionate guru. Know this as the
truth. 81
m::ðx:sy: kaöx:a y:ed v:ò t:v:aest:
ty:j:aet:dÝradÏ ev:\:y:an:Î ev:\:ö y:T:a
p:iy:Ü\:v:t:Î t::ð\:dy:ax:m:aj:üv:
)S:aent:dant:irÎ B:j: en:ty:m:Î A:drat:Î. 82
If you really have a desire for liberation, avoid the senses from a
great distance, as you would poison, and continually practice the
nectarlike qualities of contentment, compassion, forbearance,
honesty, calm and restraint. 82
An:Øx:N:ö y:tp:erÆty: káty:ö
An:a½ev:½akát:b:nD:m::ðx:N:m:Î
dðhH p:raT::ðüy:m:Î Am:Ø\y: p::ð\:N:ð
y:H s:jj:t:ð s: sv:m:Î An:ðn: hent:. 83
He who neglects that which should be undertaken at all times, the
liberation from the bonds created by beginningless ignorance, and
gets stuck in pandering to the alien good of this body, is
committing suicide by doing so. 83
S:rirp::ð\:N:aT:iü s:n:Î y: A:tm:an:ö eddáx:et:
g:Òahö da,eD:y:a D:àtv:a n:ed t:t:Øüö s: g:cCet:. 84
He who seeks to know himself while pampering of the body is crossing
a river holding onto a crocodile in mistake for a log. 84
m::ðh Ov: m:ham:àty:ØrÎ m:Øm:Øx::ðrÎ v:p:Øraed\:Ø
m::ðh:ð ev:en:ej:üt::ð y:ðn: s: m:ØeVt:p:dm:Î Ahüet:. 85
This confusion about the body and such things is a great death for
the seeker after liberation. He who has overcome this confusion is
worthy of liberation. 85
m::ðhö j:eh m:ham:àty:Øö dðhdars:Øt:aed\:Ø
y:ö ej:tv:a m:Øn:y::ð y:aent: t:dÏ ev:\N::ðH p:rm:ö p:dm:Î. 86
Overcome this great death of the confusion about such things as the
body, wives and children. Sages who have overcome it go to the
supreme realm of God. 86
tv:¨aös:,eD:rsn:ay:Øm:ðd:ðm:jj:aesT:s:ökÙl:m:Î
p:ÜN:üö m:Ü*:p:Øri\:aBy:aö sT:Ül:ö en:n½m:Î Edö v:p:ØH. 87
This body is material and offensive, consisting of skin, flesh,
blood, sinews, veins, fat, marrow and bones, and full of urine and
excrement. 87
p:Wc:ikát:ðBy::ð B:Üt:ðBy:H sT:Ül:ðBy:H p:Üv:ükm:üN:a
s:m:Øtp:Àm:Î Edö sT:Ül:ö B::ðg:ay:t:n:m:Î A:tm:n:H
Av:sT:a j:ag:rs:Î t:sy: sT:Ül:aT:aün:ØB:v::ð y:t:H. 88
This material body, which arises from past action out of material
elements formed by the combination of subtle elements, is the
vehicle of sensation for the individual. This is the state of a
waking person perceiving material objects. 88
b:aÊðendÓy:òH sT:Ül:p:daT:üs:ðv:aö
+Vc:ndn:s*y:aedev:ec:*:-p:am:Î
kr:ðet: j:iv:H sv:y:m:Î Ot:dÏ A:tm:n:a
t:sm:at:Î )S:est:rÎ v:p:Ø\::ðsy: j:ag:rð. 89
The life force creates for itself, out of itself, material object of
enjoyment by means of the external senses such colourful things as
flowers, perfumes, women, etc. That is why this has its fullest
enjoyment in the waking state. 89
s:v:aüep: b:aÊs:ös:arH p:Ø,\:sy: y:dÏ A:Â:y:H
ev:e¹ dðhm:Î Edö sT:Ül:ö g:àhv:dÏ g:àhm:ðeD:n:H. 90
See this material body, all that the external existence of a man
depends on, as just like the house of a housedweller. 90
sT:Ül:sy: s:mB:v:j:ram:rN:aen: D:m:aüH
sT::òly:ady::ð b:hÚev:D:aH eS:S:Øt:a½v:sT:aH
v:N:aüÂ:m:aeden:y:m:a b:hÚD:am:y:aH sy:ØH
p:Üj:av:m:an:b:hÚm:an:m:ØK:a ev:S:ð\:aH. 91
Birth, old age and death are inherent in the physical body, as are
such conditions as stoutness and childhood, while there are
different circumstances like caste and occupation, all sorts of
diseases, and various different types of treatment, like respect and
contempt to bear with. 91
b:عiendÓy:aeN: Â:v:N:ö tv:g:ex:
G:ÒaN:ö c: ej:Ía ev:\:y:av:b::ðD:n:at:Î
v:aVp:aeN:p:ada g:Ødm:Î Apy:Î up:sT:H
km:ðüendÓy:aeN: )v:N:ðn: km:üs:Ø. 92
Ears, skin, eyes, nose and tongue are organs of sense, since they
enable the experience of objects, while voice, hands, feet and
bowels are organs of action through their inclination to activity.
92
en:g:½t:ðnt:HkrN:ö m:n::ðD:iH
Ahökáet:S:Î ec:¶:m:Î Eet: sv:v:àe¶:eB:H
m:n:s:Î t:Ø s:öklp:ev:klp:n:aedeB:H
b:Øe¹H p:daT:aüDy:v:s:ay:D:m:üt:H. 93
A*:aeB:m:an:adÏ Ahm:Î Ety:Î Ahökáet:H
sv:aT:aün:Øs:nD:an:g:ØN:ðn: ec:¶:m:Î. 94
The inner sense is known variously as mind, understanding, the sense
of doership, or volition, depending on its particular function mind
as imagining and analysing, understanding as establishing the truth
of a matter, the sense of responsibility from relating everything to
oneself, and volition as seeking its own good. 93, 94
)aN:ap:an:vy:an::ðdan:s:m:an:a B:v:ty:Î As::ò )aN:H
sv:y:m:Î Ov: v:àe¶:B:ðdadÏ ev:káet:B:ðdat:Î s:Øv:N:üs:el:l:aedv:t:Î. 95
The vital breath takes the form of the various breathings,
exhalations, psychic currents and fields according to the various
functions and characteristics, as do such things as gold and water
and in the things made of them. 95
v:ag:aed p:Wc: Â:v:N:aed p:Wc:
)aN:aed p:Wc:aB:Òm:ØK:aen: p:Wc:
b:عÐy:a½Î Aev:½aep: c: kam:km:üN:i
p:Øy:üÄkö s:Üxm:S:rirm:Î A:hÚH. 96
The groups of five categories, starting respectively with speech,
hearing, vital breath, ether, intelligence, ignorance desire and
action, constitute what is known as the eightfold citadel of the
subtle body. 96
Edö S:rirö S:àN:Ø s:Üxm:s:öejW:t:ö
el:¤ö tv:Î Ap:Wc:ikát:s:mB:v:m:Î
s:v:as:n:ö km:üPl:an:ØB:av:kö
sv:ajW:an:t::ðn:aedrÎ up:aeD:rÎ A:tm:n:H. 97
Hear that this higher body, also known as the subtle body, with its
desires and its tendency to follow the course of causal
conditioning, is derived from the undifferentiated elements, and is
a beginningless superimposition, due to its ignorance, on the true
self. 97
sv:pn::ð B:v:ty:Î Asy: ev:B:Vty:v:sT:a
sv:m:a*:S:ð\:ðN: ev:B:aet: y:*:
sv:pn:ð t:Ø b:Øe¹H sv:y:m:Î Ov: j:ag:Òt:Î
kal:in:n:an:aev:D:v:as:n:aeB:H. 98
k*:aüedB:av:ö )et:p:½ raj:t:ð
y:*: sv:y:ö B:aet: ÊÐ Ay:ö p:ratm:a
D:im:a*:k:ðp:aeD:rÎ AS:ð\:s:ax:i
n: el:py:t:ð t:t:Î kát:km:ül:ðS:òH
y:sm:adÏ As:¤s:Î t:t: Ov: km:üeB:H
n: el:py:t:ð ekeWc:dÏ up:aeD:n:a kát:òH. 99
Sleep is a distinct state of the self in which it shines by itself
alone, whereas in dreaming the mind itself assumes the sense of
agency due to the various desires of the waking state, while the
supreme self shines on, on its own, as pure consciousness, the
witness of everything from anger and such things on, without being
itself affected by any of the actions performed by the mind. Since
it is unattached to action, it is not affected by anything done by
its superimpositions. 98, 99
s:v:üvy:ap:àet:krN:ö el:¤m:Î Edö sy:aecc:datm:n:H p:Øös:H
v:asy:aedkm:Î Ev: t:xN:st:ðn:òv:atm:a B:v:ty:Î As:¤:ðy:m:Î. 100
The subtle body is the vehicle of all operations for the self, like
an axe and so on for the carpenter. The self itself is pure
consciousness, and, as such, remains unattached. 100
AnD:tv:m:ndtv:p:XÙtv:D:m:aüH
s::òg:ØNy:v:òg:ØNy:v:S:ae¹ c:x:Ø\:H
b:aeD:y:üm:Üktv:m:ØK:as:Î t:T:òv:
Â::ð*:aedD:m:aü n: t:Ø v:ð¶:ØrÎ A:tm:n:H. 101
Blindness, shortsightedness and sharp eyesight are simply due to the
healthiness or defectiveness of the eye, just as such states as
deafness and dumbness are conditions of the ear etc., not of the
self, the knower. 101
ucCÏv:as:en:HÃ:as:ev:j:àmB:N:x:Øt:Î
)sy:ndn:a½Øt#m:N:aedkaH e#y:aH
)aN:aedkm:aüeN: v:dent: t:jjW:aH
)aN:sy: D:m:aüv:S:n:aep:p:as:ð. 102
Breathing in and out, yawning, sneezing and bodily secretions are
described by experts as functions depending on the Inner Energy,
while hunger and thirst for truth are functions of the Inner Energy
direct. 102
Ant:HkrN:m:Î Ot:ð\:Ø c:x:Øraed\:Ø v:\m:üeN:
Ahm:Î Ety:Î AeB:m:an:ðn: et:Åty:Î A:B:as:t:ðj:s:a. 103
The mind, as a reflection of Light, resides in the body with its
senses, the eyes etc., through identifying itself with them. 103
AhökarH s: ev:jW:ðy:H kt:aü B::ðVt:aeB:m:any:Î Ay:m:Î
s:¶v:aedg:ØN:y::ðg:ðn: c:av:sT:a*:y:m:Î ASn:Øt:ð. 104
One should see the sense of responsibility as what feels itself the
doer and bearer of the consequences, and in together with the three
qualities of purity etc., undergoes the three states (of sleeping,
dreaming and waking). 104
ev:\:y:aN:am:Î A:n:ØkÝly:ð s:ØK:i dÙHK:i ev:p:y:üy:ð
s:ØK:ö dÙHK:ö c: t:¹m:üH s:dan:ndsy: n:atm:n:H. 105
When the senses are favourable it is happy, and when they are not it
is unhappy. So happiness and suffering are its attributes, and not
those of the ever blissful self. 105
A:tm:aT:ütv:ðn: eh )ðy:an:Î ev:\:y::ð n: sv:t:H e)y:H
sv:t: Ov: eh s:v:ðü\:am:Î A:tm:a e)y:t:m::ð y:t:H
t:t: A:tm:a s:dan:nd:ð n:asy: dÙHK:ö kdac:n:. 106
The senses are enjoyable only for the sake of oneself, not for
themselves. The self is the most dear of everything, and
consequently the self is ever blissful, and never experiences
suffering. 106
y:t:Î s:Ø\:Øpt::ò en:ev:ü\:y: A:tm:an:nd:ðn:ØB:Üy:t:ð
Â:Øet:H )ty:x:m:Î Oðet:Êm:Î An:Øm:an:ö c: j:ag:Òet:. 107
That we experience the bliss of the self free from the senses in
deep sleep is verified by the scriptures, by direct experience, by
tradition and by deduction. 107
Avy:Vt:n:amn:i p:rm:ðS:S:eVt:H
An:a½ev:½a e*:g:ØN:aetm:ka p:ra
kay:Îü
n:Øm:ðy:a s:ØeD:y:òv: m:ay:a
y:y:a j:g:t:Î s:v:üm:Î Edö )s:Üy:t:ð. 108
The socalled Unmanifest, the Lords power, is Maya, the ultimate,
beginningless ignorance, made up of the three qualities, knowable
only through its effects, and out of which this whole world is
produced. 108
s:n:Î n:apy:Î As:n:Î n:apy:Î uB:y:aetm:ka n::ð
eB:Àapy:Î AeB:Àapy:Î uB:y:aetm:ka n::ð
s:a¤apy:Î An:¤a ÊÐ uB:y:aetm:ka n::ð
m:ha»Øt:aen:v:üc:n:iy:-p:a. 109
It cannot be said to exist or not exist, or both, to be divisible or
indivisible, or both, composite or unitary, or both. It is wonderful
and indescribable. 109
S:عa¾y:b:ÒÉev:B::ðD:n:aSy:a
s:p:üB:Òm::ð rjj:Øev:v:ðkt::ð y:T:a
rj:st:m:Hs:¶v:m:Î Eet: )es:¹a
g:ØN:ast:diy:aH )eT:t:òH sv:kay:òüH. 110
Maya can be overcome by the realisation of the pure nondual God,
like the false idea of a snake through the recognition of the rope.
It is composed of the three qualities of passion, dullness and
purity, recognised by their effects. 110
ev:x:ðp:S:Vt:i rj:s:H e#y:aetm:ka
y:t:H )v:àe¶:H )s:àt:a p:ØraN:i
rag:ady::ðsy:aH )B:v:ent: en:ty:ö
dÙHK:ady::ð y:ð m:n:s::ð ev:karaH. 111
The distracting power of passion is by nature active, and from it
the primeval emanation of activity has taken place. The mental
states like desire and pain continually arise from it as well. 111
kam:H #:ðD::ð l::ðB:dmB:a½Î As:Üy:a
Ahökarð\y:aüm:ts:ra½as:Î t:Ø G::ðraH
D:m:aü Ot:ð raj:s:aH p:Øm)v:àe¶:H
y:sm:adÏ O\:a t:dÓj::ð b:nD:hðt:ØH. 112
Lust, anger, greed, pride, envy, and so on, selfimportance,
jealousy, and so on these are the awful effects produced by
passion. Consequently this quality of passion is the cause of
bondage. 112
O\:av:àet:rÎ n:am: t:m::ðg:ØN:sy:
S:eVt:rÎ m:y:a v:stv:v:B:as:t:ðny:T:a
s:ò\:a en:dan:ö p:Ø,\:sy: s:ös:àt:ðH
ev:x:ðp:S:Vt:ðH )v:N:sy: hðt:ØH. 113
The veiling effect of the dullness quality is the power that
distorts the appearance of things. It is the cause of samsara in
man, and what leads to the activation of the distracting power. 113
)jW:av:an:Î Aep: p:eNRt::ðep: c:t:Ør:ðpy:Î Aty:nt:s:Üxm:atm:dág:Î
vy:al:iZs:Î t:m:s:a n: v:ðe¶: b:hÚD:a s:öb::ðeD:t::ðep: sPÙXm:Î
B:Òanty:ar:ðep:t:m:Î Ov: s:aD:Ø kl:y:ty:Î A:l:mb:t:ð t:·ÛN:an:Î
hnt:as::ò )b:l:a dÙrnt:t:m:s:H S:eVt:rÎ m:hty:av:àet:H. 114
Even a wise and learned man and an adept in the knowledge of the
extremely subtle self can be overcome by dullness, and fail to
realise it, even when demonstrated it in many different ways. What
is presented by delusion he looks on as good, and grasps at its
qualities. Such, alas, is the strength of the great veiling power of
this awful dullness quality! 114
AB:av:n:a v:a ev:p:rit:B:av:n:a
As:öB:av:n:a ev:)et:p:e¶:rÎ Asy:aH
s:ös:g:üy:ØVt:ö n: ev:m:ØWc:et: D:ÒØv:ö
ev:x:ðp:S:eVt:H x:p:y:ty:Î Aj:+m:Î. 115
Lack of sense or distorted understanding, lack of judgement, and
bewilderment these never leave him who is caught in this delusion,
and the distracting power torments him continually. 115
AjW:an:m:al:sy: j:Rtv:en:dÓa
)m:adm:Î UZtv:m:ØK:as:Î t:m::ðg:ØN:aH
Ot:òH )y:ØVt::ð n: eh v:ðe¶: eköec:t:Î
en:dÓal:Øv:t:Î st:mB:v:dÏ Ov: et:Ået:. 116
Ignorance, laziness, drowsiness, sleep, carelessness, stupidity and
so on are the effects of the dullness quality. One stuck in these
does not understand anything, but remains in a sleeplike state, like
a wooden post. 116
s:¶v:ö ev:S:عö j:l:v:t:Î t:T:aep:
t:aBy:aö em:el:tv:a s:rN:ay: klp:t:ð
y:*:atm:eb:mb:H )et:eb:emb:t:H s:n:Î
)kaS:y:ty:Î Aký Ev:aeK:l:ö j:Rm:Î. 117
Clear purity is like water, but combined with these other qualities
it leads to samsara, though in this purity the nature of the self is
reflected, like the suns disk illuminating the whole world. 117
em:Â:sy: s:¶v:sy: B:v:ent: D:m:aüH
tv:m:Î A:en:t:a½a en:y:m:a y:m:a½aH
Â:¹a c: B:eVt:S:Î c: m:Øm:Øx:t:a c:
dòv:i c: s:mp:e¶:rÎ As:eÀv:àe¶:H. 118
In purity mixed with the other qualities virtues such as humility,
restraint, truthfulness, faith, devotion, desire for liberation,
spiritual tendencies and freedom from entanglement occur. 118
ev:S:عs:¶v:sy: g:ØN:aH )s:adH
sv:atm:an:ØB:Üet:H p:rm:a )S:aent:H
t:àept:H )h\:üH p:rm:atm:en:Åa
y:y:a s:dan:ndrs:ö s:m:àcCet:. 119
In purity itself however the qualities which occur are contentment,
selfunderstanding, supreme peace, fulfilment, joy and abiding in
ones supreme self, through which one experiences real bliss. 119
Avy:Vt:m:Î Ot:t:Î e*:g:ØN:òrÎ en:,Vt:ö
t:tkarN:ö n:am: S:rirm:Î A:tm:n:H
s:Ø\:Øept:rÎ Ot:sy: ev:B:Vty:v:sT:a
)l:in:s:v:ðüendÓy:b:Øe¹v:àe¶:H. 120
This Unmanifest, described as made up of the three qualities, is the
active body of the self. Deep sleep is a special condition of it, in
which the activity of all functions of awareness cease. 120
s:v:ü)kar)em:et:)S:aent:H
b:ij:atm:n:av:esT:et:rÎ Ov: b:عðH
s:Ø\:Øept:rÎ Ot:sy: ekl: )t:iet:H
eköec:n:Î n: v:ð¼i et: j:g:t)es:¹ðH. 121
Deep sleep is the cessation of all forms of awareness, and the
reversion of consciousness to a latent form of the self. "I knew
nothing" is the universal experience. 121
dðhðendÓy:)aN:m:n::ðhm:ady:H
s:v:ðü ev:kara ev:\:y:aH s:ØK:ady:H
vy::ðm:aedB:Üt:any:Î AeK:l:ö n: ev:Ã:ö
Avy:Vt:p:y:ünt:m:Î Edö ÊÐ An:atm:a. 122
The body, its functions, vital energies, the thinking mind, the ego,
etc., and all forms, objects, enjoyment, etc. the physical elements
such as the ether, in fact everything up to this Unmanifest, are not
ones true nature. 122
m:ay:a m:ay:akay:üö s:v:üö m:hdaeddðhp:y:ünt:m:Î
As:dÏ Edm:Î An:atm:t:¶v:ö ev:e¹ tv:ö m:,m:riec:kaklp:m:Î. 123
Everything is the creation of Maya from space itself down to the
individual body. Look on it all as a desert mirage, unreal and not
yourself. 123
AT: t:ð s:ö)v:xy:aem: sv:-p:ö p:rm:atm:n:H
y:e¾jW:ay: n:r:ð b:nD:an:Î m:ØVt:H kóv:ly:m:Î ASn:Øt:ð. 124
Now I will instruct you in the true nature of your supreme self, by
understanding which a man is freed from his bonds and achieves final
fulfilment. 124
Aest: keÁ:t:Î sv:y:ö en:ty:m:Î Ahö)ty:y:l:mb:n:H
Av:sT:a*:y:s:ax:i s:np:Wc:k:ðS:ev:l:x:N:H. 125
There IS something your own, unchanging, the "I", the substratum,
the basis, which is the triple observer, distinct from the five
sheaths. 125
y::ð ev:j:an:aet: s:kl:ö j:ag:Òtsv:pn:s:Ø\:Øept:\:Ø
b:Øe¹t:¾âe¶:s:»av:m:Î AB:av:m:Î Ahm:Î Ety:Î Ay:m:Î. 126
The awareness that knows everything whether waking, dreaming or in
deed sleep, and whether or not there is movement in the mind, that
is the "I". 126
y:H p:Sy:et: sv:y:ö s:v:üö y:ö n: p:Sy:et: kÁ:n:
y:S:Î c:ðt:y:et: b:عÐy:aed n: t:dÏ y:ö c:ðt:y:ty:Î Ay:m:Î. 127
It is that which experiences everything, but which nothing else can
experience, which thinks through the intelligence etc., but which
nothing else can think. 127
y:ðn: ev:Ã:m:Î Edö vy:apt:ö y:ö n: vy:apn::ðet: ekWc:n:
AB:a-p:m:Î Edö s:v:üö y:ö B:anty:m:Î An:ØB:aty:Î Ay:m:Î. 128
It is that by which all this is filled, but which nothing else can
fill, and which, in shining, makes all this shines as well. 128
y:sy: s:eÀeD:m:a*:ðN: dðhðendÓy:m:n::ðeD:y:H
ev:\:y:ð\:Ø sv:kiy:ð\:Ø v:t:ünt:ð )ðert:a Ev:. 129
It is that whose mere presence makes the body, senses, mind and
intellect keep to their appropriate functions like servants. 129
Ah¢araeddðhant:a ev:\:y:aS:Î c: s:ØK:ady:H
v:ð½nt:ð G:Xv:dÏ y:ðn: en:ty:b::ðD:sv:-ep:N:a. 130
It is that by which everything from the ego function down to the
body, the senses, pleasure etc. is known as simply as we know an
earthen vessel, for its very nature is everlasting consciousness.
130
O\::ðnt:ratm:a p:Ø,\:H p:ØraN::ð
en:rnt:raK:NRs:ØK:an:ØB:Üet:H
s:dòk-p:H )et:b::ðD:m:a*::ð
y:ðn:ðe\:t:a v:ag:s:v:S:Î c:rent:. 131
This is ones inmost nature, the eternal Person, whose very essence
is unbroken awareness of happiness, who is ever unchanging and pure
consciousness, and in obedience to whom speech and the vital
functions continue. 131
A*:òv: s:¶v:atm:en: D:ig:Øhay:aö
Avy:akát:akaS: uS:t)kaS:H
A:kaS: ucc:ò rev:v:t:Î )kaS:t:ð
sv:t:ðj:s:a ev:Ã:m:Î Edö )kaS:y:n:Î. 132
In one of pure nature, the morning light of the Unmanifest shines
even here in the cave of the mind, illuminating all this with its
glory, like the sun up there in space. 132
jW:at:a m:n::ðhökáet:ev:e#y:aN:aö
dðhðendÓy:)aN:kát:e#y:aN:am:Î
Ay::ðegn:v:t:Î t:an:Î An:Øv:t:üm:an::ð
n: c:ðÄt:ð n::ð ev:kr:ðet: ekWc:n:. 133
That which knows the thinking mind and ego functions takes its form
from the body with its senses and other functions, like fire does in
a ball of iron, but it neither acts nor changes in any way. 133
n: j:ay:t:ð n::ð em:Òy:t:ð n: v:D:üt:ð
n: x:iy:t:ð n::ð ev:kr:ðet: en:ty:H
ev:l:iy:m:an:ðep: v:p:Ø\y:Î Am:Øe\m:n:Î
n: l:iy:t:ð kÙmB: Ev:amb:rö sv:y:m:Î. 134
It is never born, never dies, grows, decays, or changes. Even when
the body is destroyed it does not cease to be, like the space in an
earthen vessel. 134
)káet:ev:káet:eB:ÀH S:عb::ðD:sv:B:av:H
s:ds:dÏ Edm:Î AS:ð\:ö B:as:y:n:Î en:ev:üS:ð\:H
ev:l:s:et: p:rm:atm:a j:ag:Òdaed\v:v:sT:a
sv:hm:Î Ahm:Î Eet: s:ax:at:Î s:aex:-p:ðN: b:عðH. 135
The true self, of the nature of pure consciousness, and separate
from the productions of nature, illuminates all this, real and
unreal, without itself changing. It plays in the states of waking
and so on, as the foundation sense of I exist, as the awareness,
which witnesses all experience. 135
en:y:em:t:m:n:s:am:Øö tv:ö sv:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î A:tm:ny:Î
Ay:m:Î Ahm:Î Eet: s:ax:adÏ ev:e¹ b:Øe¹)s:adat:Î
j:en:m:rN:t:rög:ap:ars:ös:ares:nD:Øö
)t:r B:v: kát:aT::ðü b:ÒÉ-p:ðN: s:ösT:H. 136
By means of a trained mind, and thanks to your faculty of
understanding, experience in practice the true self of this I exist
in yourself, cross the ocean of samsaras waves of birth and death,
and established in the nature of God, achieve your goal. 136
A*:an:atm:ny:Î Ahm:Î Eet: m:et:rÎ b:nD: O\::ðsy: p:Øös:H
)apt::ðjW:an:aj:Î j:n:n:m:rN:Vl:ðS:s:öp:at:hðt:ØH
y:ðn:òv:ay:ö v:p:ØrÎ Edm:Î As:ts:ty:m:Î Ety:Î A:tm:b:عÐy:a
p:Ø\y:ty:Î ux:ty:Î Av:et: ev:\:y:òs:Î t:nt:ØeB:H k:ðS:ká¾t:Î. 137
Seeing This is me in what is not really oneself, this is mans
bondage, the result of ignorance and the cause of the descent into
the pain of birth and death. It is because of this that one sees
this unreal body as real, and identifying oneself with it, feeds it
and cares for it with the senses, like a grub in its cocoon. 137
At:esm:öst:ºÚe¹H )B:v:et: ev:m:ÜZsy: t:m:s:a
ev:v:ðkaB:av:adÏ v:ò sPÙret: B:Øj:g:ð rjj:ØeD:\:N:a
t:t::ðn:T:üv:Òat::ð en:p:t:et: s:m:adat:ØrÎ AeD:kH
t:t::ð y::ðs:dÏg:ÒahH s: eh B:v:et: b:nD:H S:àN:Ø s:K:ð. 138
One who is confused by dullness sees something which is not there,
like a man mistaking a rope for a snake through lack of
understanding, and falling into a very sad state from mistakenly
taking hold of it. So, my friend, hear this Grasping at what does
not exist is what constitutes bondage. 138
AK:NRen:ty:a¾y:b::ðD:S:Vty:a
sPÙrnt:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î An:nt:v:òB:v:m:Î
s:m:av:àN::ðty:Î A:v:àet:S:eVt:rÎ O\:a
t:m::ðm:y:i rahÚrÎ Ev:akýeb:mb:m:Î. 139
This obscuring power conceals the infinite glory of ones true self
which radiates with its indivisible, eternal and unified power of
understanding, like an eclipse obscures the suns disk, and creates
darkness. 139
et:r:ðB:Üt:ð sv:atm:ny:Î Am:l:t:rt:ðj::ðv:et: p:Øm:an:Î
An:atm:an:ö m::ðhadÏ Ahm:Î Eet: S:rirö kl:y:et:
t:t:H kam:#:ðD:)B:àet:eB:rÎ Am:Øö b:nD:n:g:ØN:òH
p:rö ev:x:ðp:aKy:a rj:s: u,S:eVt:rÎ vy:T:y:et:. 140
When he has lost sight of his true self, immaculate and resplendent,
a man identifies himself with his body out of ignorance. Then the
great socalled dispersive power of desire torments him with fetters
derived from desire and hatred. 140
m:ham::ðhg:Òahg:Òs:n:g:el:t:atm:av:g:m:n::ð
eD:y::ð n:an:av:sT:aö sv:y:m:Î AeB:n:y:ös:Î t:·ÛN:t:y:a
Ap:arð s:ös:rð ev:\:y:ev:\:p:Ürð j:l:en:D::ò
en:m:jy::ðnm:jy:ay:ö B:Òm:et: kÙm:et:H kÙets:t:g:et:H. 141
When a man has fallen to the state of being swallowed up by the
great shark of ignorance, he assumes to himself the various states
superimposed upon him, and in a pitiful state wanders rising and
sinking in the great ocean of samsara. 141
B:an:Ø)B:as:ö j:en:t:aB:Òp:e¢Ñt:H
B:an:Øö et:r:ðD:ay: ev:j:àmB:t:ð y:T:a
A:tm::ðedt:ahökáet:rÎ A:tm:t:¶v:ö
t:T:a et:r:ðD:ay: ev:j:àmB:t:ð sv:y:m:Î. 142
Just as cloud formations, arising from the suns rays, obscure the
sun and fill the sky, so the sense of selfidentity, arising from
ones true nature, obscures the existence of the true self and itself
fills experience. 142
kv:el:t:edn:n:aT:ðü dÙedün:ð s:andÓm:ðG:òH
vy:T:y:et: ehm:J:öJ:av:ay:ØrÎ ug:Ò:ð y:T:òt:an:Î
Aev:rt:t:m:s:atm:ny:Î A:v:àt:ð m:ÜZb:Øe¹ö
x:p:y:et: b:hÚdÙHK:òs:Î t:iv:Òev:x:ðp:S:eVt:H. 143
Just as the thick clouds covering the sun on a bad day are buffeted
by cold, howling blasts of wind, so, when ones true nature is
obscured by deep ignorance, the strong dispersive power torments the
confused understanding with many afflictions. 143
Ot:aBy:am:Î Ov: S:eVt:By:aö b:nD:H p:Øös:H s:m:ag:t:H
y:aBy:aö ev:m::ðeht::ð dðhö m:tv:atm:an:ö B:Òm:ty:Î Ay:m:Î. 144
It is from these powers that mans bondage has arisen. Confused by
them, he mistakes the body for himself and wanders in error. 144
b:ij:ö s:ös:àet:B:Üem:j:sy: t:Ø t:m::ð dðhatm:D:irÎ A¢Ûr:ð
rag:H p:ll:v:m:Î Amb:Ø km:ü t:Ø v:p:ØH sknD::ðs:v:H S:aeK:kaH
Ag:ÒaN:iendÓy:s:öhet:S:Î c: ev:\:y:aH p:Ø\p:aeN: dÙHK:ö Pl:ö
n:an:akm:üs:m:Ø»v:ö b:hÚev:D:ö B::ðVt:a*: j:iv:H K:g:H. 145
The seed of the samsara tree is ignorance, identification with the
body is its shoot, desire is its first leaves, activity its water,
the bodily frame its trunk, the vital forces its branches, the
faculties its twigs, the senses its flowers, the manifold pains
arising from various actions its fruit, and the bird on it is the
individual experiencing them. 145
AjW:an:m:Ül::ðy:m:Î An:atm:b:nD::ð
n:òs:eg:ük:ðn:aedrÎ An:nt: Iert:H
j:nm:apy:y:vy:aeD:j:raeddÙHK:
)v:ahp:at:ö j:n:y:ty:Î Am:Ø\y:. 146
Ignorance is the root of this bondage to what is not ones true
nature, a bondage which is called beginningless and endless. It
gives rise to the long course of suffering birth, death, sickness,
old age, etc. 146
n:as*:òrÎ n: S:s*:òrÎ Aen:l:ðn: v:eÈn:a
Cð¶:Øö n: S:Vy::ð n: c: km:ük:ðeXeB:H
ev:v:ðkev:jW:an:m:haes:n:a ev:n:a
D:at:ØH )s:adðn: eS:t:ðn: m:Wj:Øn:a. 147
It cannot be destroyed by weapons, wind or fire, nor even by
countless actions by nothing, in fact, except by the wonderful
sword of wisdom, sharpened by Gods grace. 147
Â:Øet:)m:aN:òkm:t:ðH sv:D:m:ü
en:Åa t:y:òv:atm:ev:S:Øe¹rÎ Asy:
ev:S:عb:عðH p:rm:atm:v:ðdn:ö
t:ðn:òv: s:ös:ars:m:Ül:n:aS:H. 148
He who is devoted to the authority of the scriptures achieves
steadiness in his religious life, and that brings inner purity. The
man of pure understanding comes to the experience of his true
nature, and by this samsara is destroyed, root and all. 148
k:ðS:òrÎ AÀm:y:adÏ y:òH p:Wc:eB:rÎ A:tm:a n: s:öv:àt::ð B:aet:
en:j:S:eVt:s:m:Øtp:ÀòH S:òv:al:p:Xl:òrÎ Ev:amb:Ø v:ap:isT:m:Î. 149
Ones true nature does not shine out when covered by the five
sheaths, material and otherwise, although they are the product of
its own power, like the water in a pool, covered with algae. 149
t:c:Î Còv:al:ap:n:y:ð s:my:kÏ s:el:l:ö )t:iy:t:ð S:عm:Î
t:à\N:as:nt:ap:hrö s:½H s::òKy:)dö p:rö p:Øös:H. 150
On removing the algae, the clean, thirstquenching and joyinducing
water is revealed to a man. 150
p:Wc:an:am:Î Aep: k:ðS:an:am:Î Ap:v:adð ev:B:aty:Î Ay:ö S:عH
en:ty:an:ndòkrs:H )ty:g:ÒÜp:H p:rH sv:y:ö jy::ðet:H. 151
When the five sheaths have been removed, the supreme light shines
forth, pure, eternally blissful, single in essence, and within. 151
A:tm:an:atm:ev:v:ðkH kt:üvy::ð b:nD:m:ØVt:y:ð ev:dÙ\:a
t:ðn:òv:an:ndi B:v:et: sv:ö ev:jW:ay: s:ecc:dan:ndm:Î. 152
To be free from bondage the wise man must practise discrimination
between self and nonself. By that alone he will become full of joy,
recognising himself as Being, Consciousness and Bliss. 152
m:ØWj:aed\:ikam:Î Ev: dáSy:v:g:aüt:Î
)ty:Wc:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î As:¤m:Î Ae#y:m:Î
ev:ev:cy: t:*: )ev:l:apy: s:v:üö
t:dÏ A:tm:n:a et:Ået: y:H s: m:ØVt:H. 153
Just as one separates something like a blade of grass from its
sheaths, so by discriminating ones true nature as internal,
unattached and free from action, and abandoning all else, one is
free and identified only with ones true self. 153
dðh:ðy:m:Î AÀB:v:n::ðÀm:y:s:Î t:Ø k:ðS:H
c:aÀðn: j:iv:et: ev:n:Sy:et: t:e¾hin:H
tv:Vc:m:üm:aös:,eD:raesT:p:Øri\:raeS:H
n:ay:ö sv:y:ö B:ev:t:Øm:Î Ahüet: en:ty:S:عH. 154
This body is the product of food, and constitutes the material
sheath. It depends on food and dies without it. It is a mass of
skin, flesh, blood, bones and uncleanness. It is not fit to see as
oneself, who is ever pure. 154
p:Üv:üö j:n:ðrÎ AeD:m:àt:ðrÎ Aep: n:ay:m:Î Aest:
j:at:x:N:H x:N:g:ØN::ðen:y:t:sv:B:av:H
n:òk:ð j:RS:Î c: G:Xv:t:Î p:erdáSy:m:an:H
sv:atm:a kT:ö B:v:et: B:av:ev:karv:ð¶:a. 155
The body did not exist before birth, nor will it exist after death.
It is born for a moment, its qualities are momentary, and it is
inherently changing. It is not a single thing, but stupid, and
should be viewed like an earthen pot. How could it be ones true
self, which is the observer of changing phenomena? 155
p:aeN:p:adaedm:andðh:ð n:atm:a vy:¤ñep: j:iv:n:at:Î
t:¶:cCVt:ðrÎ An:aS:ac:Î c: n: en:y:my::ð en:y:am:kH. 156
Made up of arms and legs and so on, the body cannot be ones true
self as it can live on without various limbs, and other faculties
persist without them. What is controlled cannot be the controller.
156
dðht:¹m:üt:tkm:üt:dv:sT:aeds:aex:N:H
s:t: Ov: sv:t:H es:¹ö t:¾òl:x:Ny:m:Î A:tm:n:H. 157
While the body of the observer is of a specific nature, behaviour
and situation, it is clear that the nature of ones true self is
devoid of characteristics. 157
S:ly:raeS:rÎ m:aös:el:pt::ð m:l:p:ÜN::ðüet:kSm:l:H
kT:ö B:v:ðdÏ Ay:ö v:ð¶:a sv:y:m:Î Ot:dÏ ev:l:x:N:H. 158
How could the body, which is a heap of bones, covered with flesh,
full of filth and highly impure, be oneself, the featureless
observer? 158
tv:¨aös:m:ðd:ðesT:p:Øri\:raS:av:Î
Ahö m:et:ö m:ÜZj:n:H kr:ðet:
ev:l:x:N:ö v:ðe¶: ev:c:arS:il::ð
en:j:sv:-p:ö p:rm:aT:üB:Üt:m:Î. 159
The deluded man makes the assumption that he is the mass of skin,
flesh, fat bones and filth, while the man who is strong in
discrimination knows himself as devoid of characteristics, the
innate supreme Reality. 159
dðh:ðhm:Î Ety:Î Ov: j:Rsy: b:Øe¹H
dðhð c: j:iv:ð ev:dÙ\:s:Î tv:Î AhöD:iH
ev:v:ðkev:jW:an:v:t::ð m:hatm:n::ð
b:ÒÉahm:Î Ety:Î Ov: m:et:H s:datm:en:. 160
I am the body is the opinion of the fool. I am body and soul is the
view of the scholar, while for the greatsouled, discriminating man,
his inner knowledge is I am God. 160
A*:atm:b:Øe¹ö ty:j: m:ÜZb:عð
tv:¨aös:m:ðd:ðesT:p:Øri\:raS::ò
s:v:aütm:en: b:ÒÉeN: en:ev:üklp:ð
kÙ,\v: S:aent:ö p:rm:aö B:j:sv:. 161
Get rid of the opinion of yourself as this mass of skin, flesh, fat,
bones and filth, foolish one, and make yourself instead the self of
everything, the God beyond all thought, and enjoy supreme peace. 161
dðhðendÓy:adav:Î As:et: B:Òm::ðedt:aö
ev:¾an:Î Ahö t:aö n: j:haet: y:av:t:Î
t:av:n:Î n: t:sy:aest: ev:m:ØeVt:v:at:aüpy:Î
Astv:Î O\: v:ðdant:n:y:ant:dS:iü. 162
While the scholar does not overcome his sense of I am this in the
body and its faculties, there is no liberation for him, however much
he may be learned in religion and philosophy. 162
Cay:aS:rirð )et:eb:mb:g:a*:ð
y:t:Î sv:pn:dðhð Æed kelp:t:a¤ñ
y:T:atm:b:Øe¹s:Î t:v: n:aest: kaec:j:Î
j:iv:cCrirð c: t:T:òv: m:ast:Ø. 163
Just as you have no self identification with your shadowbody,
reflectionbody, dreambody or imaginationbody, so you should not have
with the living body either. 163
dðhatm:D:irÎ Ov: n:àN:am:Î As:e¹y:aö
j:nm:aeddÙHK:)B:v:sy: b:ij:m:Î
y:t:s:Î t:t:s:Î tv:ö j:eh t:aö )y:tn:at:Î
ty:Vt:ð t:Ø ec:¶:ð n: p:Øn:rÎ B:v:aS:a. 164
Identification of oneself with the body is the seed of the pain of
birth etc. in people attached to the unreal, so get rid of it with
care. When this thought is eliminated, there is no more desire for
rebirth. 164
km:ðüendÓy:òH p:Wc:eB:rÎ AeWc:t::ðy:ö
)aN::ð B:v:ðt:Î )aN:m:y:s:Î t:Ø k:ðS:H.
y:ðn:atm:v:an:Î AÀm:y::ðn:Øp:ÜN:üH
)v:t:üt:ðs::ò s:kl:e#y:as:Ø. 165
The vital energy joined to the five activities forms the vitality
sheath, by which the material sheath is filled, and engages in all
these activities. 165
n:òv:atm:aep: )aN:m:y::ð v:ay:Øev:kar:ð
g:nt:ag:nt:a v:ay:Øv:dÏ Ant:b:üehrð\:H
y:sm:at:Î ekeWc:t:Î Vv:aep: n: v:ð¶:iÄm:Î Aen:Äö
sv:ö v:any:ö v:a ekWc:n: en:ty:ö p:rt:n*:H. 166
The Breath, being a product of the vital energy, is not ones true
nature either. Like the air, it enters and leaves the body, and
knows neither its own or other peoples good or bad, dependent as it
is on something else. 166
jW:an:ðendÓy:aeN: c: m:n:S:Î c: m:n::ðm:y:H sy:at:Î
k:ðS::ð m:m:ahm:Î Eet: v:st:Øev:klp:hðt:ØH
s:öjW:aedB:ðdkl:n:akel:t::ð b:l:iy:aös:Î
t:tp:Üv:ük:ðS:m:Î AeB:p:Üy:ü ev:j:àmB:t:ð y:H. 167
The faculty of knowledge and the mind itself constitute the mindmade
sheath, the cause of such distinctions as me and mine. It is strong
and has the faculty of creating distinctions of perception etc., and
works itself through the vitality sheath. 167
p:Wc:ðendÓy:òH p:Wc:eB:rÎ Ov: h:ðt:àeB:H
)c:iy:m:an::ð ev:\:y:ajy:D:ary:a
j:ajv:ly:m:an::ð b:hÚv:as:n:ðnD:n:òH
m:n::ðm:y:aegn:rÎ dhet: )p:Wc:m:Î. 168
The mindmade fire burns the multiplicity of experience in the fuel
of numerous desires of the senses presented as oblations in the form
of sense objects by the five senses like five priests. 168
n: ÊÐ Asty:Î Aev:½a m:n:s::ðet:erVt:a
m:n::ð ÊÐ Aev:½a B:v:b:nD:hðt:ØH
t:esm:n:Î ev:n:Äð s:kl:ö ev:n:Äö
ev:j:àemB:t:ðesm:n:Î s:kl:ö ev:j:àmB:t:ð. 169
There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the thinking mind.
Thought is itself ignorance, the cause of the bondage of becoming.
When thought is eliminated, everything else is eliminated. When
thought increases everything else increases. 169
sv:pn:ðT:üS:Üny:ð s:àj:et: sv:S:Vty:a
B::ðV*:aedev:Ã:ö m:n: Ov: s:v:üm:Î
t:T:òv: j:ag:Òty:Î Aep: n::ð ev:S:ð\:H
t:t:Î s:v:üm:Î Ot:n:Î m:n:s::ð ev:j:àmB:N:m:Î. 170
In sleep which is devoid of actual experience, it is the mind alone
which produces everything, the experiencer and everything else, by
its own power, and in the waking state there is no difference. All
this is the product of the mind. 170
s:Ø\:Øept:kal:ð m:n:es: )l:in:ð
n:òv:aest: ekeWc:t:Î s:kl:)es:¹ðH
At::ð m:n:Hkelp:t:Î Ov: p:Øös:H
s:ös:ar Ot:sy: n: v:st:Øt::ðest:. 171
In deep sleep when the thinking mind has gone into abeyance there is
nothing, by every ones experience, so mans samsara is a mind
creation, and has no real existence. 171
v:ay:Øn:an:iy:t:ð m:ðD:H p:Øn:s:Î t:ðn:òv: n:iy:t:ð
m:n:s:a klpy:t:ð b:nD::ð m::ðx:s:Î t:ðn:òv: klpy:t:ð. 172
Cloud is gathered by the wind, and is driven away by it too. Bondage
is imagined by the mind, and liberation is imagined by it too. 172
dðhaeds:v:üev:\:y:ð p:erklpy: rag:ö
b:¿:aet: t:ðn: p:Ø,\:ö p:S:Øv:dÏ g:ØN:ðn:
v:òrsy: m:*: ev:\:v:t:Î s:Øev:D:ay: p:Á:adÏ
On:ö ev:m::ðc:y:et: t:n:Î m:n: Ov: b:nD:at:Î. 173
By dwelling with desire on the body and other senses the mind binds
a man like an animal with a rope, and the same mind liberates him
from the bond by creating simple distaste for the senses as if they
were poison. 173
t:sm:an:Î m:n:H karN:m:Î Asy: j:nt::ðH
b:nD:sy: m::ðx:sy: c: v:a ev:D:an:ð
b:nD:sy: hðt:ØrÎ m:el:n:ö rj::ðg:ØN:òH
m::ðx:sy: S:عö ev:rj:st:m:skm:Î. 174
Thus the mind is the cause of a mans finding both bondage and
liberation. When soiled with the attribute of desire it is the cause
of bondage, and when clear of desire and ignorance it is the cause
of liberation. 174
ev:v:ðkv:òragy:g:ØN:aet:rðkac:Î
CÙ¹tv:m:Î A:s:a½ m:n::ð ev:m:ØVty:ò
B:v:ty:t::ð b:Øe¹m:t::ð m:Øm:Øx::ðH
t:aBy:aö dáZaBy:aö B:ev:t:vy:m:Î Ag:Òð. 175
By achieving the purity of an habitual discrimination and
dispassion, the mind is inclined to liberation, so the wise seeker
after liberation should first develop these. 175
m:n::ð n:am: m:havy:aG:Ò:ð ev:\:y:arNy:B:Üem:\:Ø
c:rty:Î A*: n: g:cCnt:Ø s:aD:v::ð y:ð m:Øm:Øx:v:H. 176
A great tiger known as the mind lives in the forest of the senses,
so pious seekers after liberation should not go there. 176
m:n:H )s:Üt:ð ev:\:y:an:Î AS:ð\:an:Î
sT:Ül:atm:n:a s:Üxm:t:y:a c: B::ðVt:ØH
S:rirv:N:aüÂ:m:j:aet:B:ðdan:Î
g:ØN:e#y:ahðt:ØPl:aen: en:ty:m:Î. 177
The mind continually presents endless coarse or subtle sense
experiences for a person all the differences of physique, caste,
state and birth, and the fruits resulting from attributes and
actions. 177
As:ög:ec:dÓÞp:m:Î Am:Øö ev:m::ðÊ
dðhðendÓy:)aN:g:ØN:òrÎ en:b:¹Ðy:
Ahöm:m:ðet: B:Òm:y:ty:Î Aj:+ö
m:n:H sv:káty:ð\:Ø Pl::ðp:B:ØeVt:\:Ø. 178
The mind continually confuses that which is by nature unattached,
binding it with the fetters of body, senses and faculties so that it
thinks in terms of me and mine in the experiences he is achieving.
178
ADy:as:d:ð\:at:Î p:Ø,\:sy: s:ös:àet:H
ADy:as:b:nD:s:Î tv:Î Am:Øn:òv: kelp:t:H
rj:st:m::ðd:ð\:v:t::ðev:v:ðekn::ð
j:nm:aeddÙHK:sy: en:dan:m:Î Ot:t:Î. 179
Mans samsara is due to the error of additions (to his true nature),
and it is from the minds imagination that the bondage of these
additions comes. This is the cause of the pain of birth and so on
for the man without discrimination who is filled with desire and
ignorance. 179
At:H )ahÚrÎ m:n::ðev:½aö p:eNRt:as:Î t:¶v:deS:ün:H
y:ðn:òv: B:Òamy:t:ð ev:Ã:ö v:ay:Øn:ðv:aB:Òm:NRl:m:Î. 180
That is why the wise who have experienced reality call the mind
ignorance, for it is by that that everything is driven, like a mass
of clouds by the wind. 180
t:nm:n:HS::ðD:n:ö kay:üö )y:tn:ðn: m:Øm:Øx:ØN:a
ev:S:عð s:et: c:òt:esm:n:Î m:ØeVt:H krPl:ay:t:ð. 181
So the mind must be earnestly purified by the seeker after
liberation. Once it is purified, the fruit of liberation comes
easily to hand. 181
m::ðx:òks:Vty:a ev:\:y:ð\:Ø rag:ö
en:m:Üüly: s:öny:sy: c: s:v:ükm:ü
s:cC¹y:a y:H Â:v:N:aeden:Å:ð
rj:Hsv:B:av:ö s: D:Øn::ðet: b:عðH. 182
Completely rooting out desire for the senses and abandoning all
activity by onepointed devotion to liberation, he who is established
with true faith in study etc., purges away the passion from his
understanding. 182
m:n::ðm:y::ð n:aep: B:v:ðt:Î p:ratm:a
ÊÐ A:½nt:v:¶v:at:Î p:erN:aem:B:av:at:Î
dÙHK:atm:ktv:adÏ ev:\:y:tv:hðt::ðH
dÓÄa eh dáSy:atm:t:y:a n: dáÄH. 183
What is mindmade cannot be ones true nature, because it is
changeable, having a beginning and an end, because it is subject to
pain, and because it is itself an object. The knower cannot be seen
as an object of consciousness. 183
b:Øe¹rÎ b:عiendÓy:òH s:aD:üö s:v:àe¶:H kt:àül:x:N:H
ev:jW:an:m:y:k:ðS:H sy:at:Î p:Øös:H s:ös:arkarN:m:Î. 184
The intellect along with its faculties, its activities and its
characteristic of seeing itself as the agent, constitutes the
knowledge sheath which is the cause of mans samsara. 184
An:Øv:Òj:c:Î ec:t)et:eb:mb:S:eVt:H
ev:jW:an:s:öjW:H )kát:ðrÎ ev:karH
jW:an:e#y:av:an:Î Ahm:Î Ety:Î Aj:+ö
dðhðendÓy:aed\v:Î AeB:m:ny:t:ð B:àS:m:Î. 185
Intellectual knowledge which as a function is a distant reflection
of pure consciousness, is a natural faculty. It continually creates
the awareness I exist, and strongly identifies itself with the body,
its faculties and so on. 185
An:aedkal::ðy:m:Î Ahösv:B:av::ð
j:iv:H s:m:st:vy:v:harv::ðZa
kr:ðet: km:aüNy:Î Aep: p:Üv:üv:as:n:H
p:ØNy:any:Î Ap:ØNy:aen: c: t:tPl:aen:. 186
This sense of self is from beginningless time. As the person it is
the agent of all relative occupations. Through its proclivities from
the past it performs good and bad actions, and bears their fruit.
186
B:Ø¢Ñt:ð ev:ec:*:asv:Î Aep: y::ðen:\:Ø v:Òj:n:Î
n:ay:aet: en:y:aüty:Î AD: UDv:üm:Î O\:H
Asy:òv: ev:jW:an:m:y:sy: j:ag:Òt:Î
sv:pn:a½v:sT:aH s:ØK:dÙHK:B::ðg:H. 187
After experiencing them it is born in all sorts of different wombs,
and progresses up and down in life, the experiencer of the
knowledgecreated states of waking, sleeping etc., and of pleasure
and pain. 187
dðhaeden:ÅaÂ:m:D:m:ükm:ü
g:ØN:aeB:m:an:H s:t:t:ö m:m:ðet:
ev:jW:an:k:ðS::ðy:m:Î Aet:)kaS:H
)káÄs:aeÀDy:v:S:at:Î p:ratm:n:H
At::ð B:v:ty:Î O\: up:aeD:rÎ Asy:
y:dÏ A:tm:D:iH s:ös:ret: B:Òm:ðN:. 188
It always sees as its own such things as the body, and its
circumstances, states, duties, actions and functions. The knowledge
sheath is very impressive owing to its inherent affinity to the
supreme self, which, identifying itself with the superimposition,
experiences samsara because of this illusion. 188
y::ðy:ö ev:jW:an:m:y:H )aN:ð\:Ø Æed sPÙrty:Î Ay:ö jy::ðet:H
kÝXsT:H s:ÀÎ A:tm:a kt:aü B::ðVt:a B:v:ty:Î up:aeD:sT:H. 189
This knowledgecreated light shines among the faculties of the heart,
and the true self, although itself motionless, becomes the actor and
the experiencer while identified with this superimposition. 189
sv:y:ö p:ercCðdm:Î up:ðty: b:عðH
t:adatmy:d:ð\:ðN: p:rö m:à\:atm:n:H
s:v:aütm:kH s:ÀÎ Aep: v:ix:t:ð sv:y:ö
sv:t:H p:àT:Vtv:ðn: m:àd:ð G:Xan:Î Ev:. 190
Allied to the intellect, just a part of itself, although the true
self of everything, and beyond the limitations of such an existence,
it identifies itself with this illusory self as if clay were to
identify itself with earthen jars. 190
up:aeD:s:mb:nD:v:S:at:Î p:ratm:a
ÊÐ up:aeD:D:m:aün:n:ØB:aet: t:·ÛN:H
Ay::ðev:karan:ev:kaerv:eÈv:t:Î
s:dòk-p::ðep: p:rH sv:B:av:at:Î. 191
In conjunction with such additional qualities, the supreme self
seems to manifest the same characteristics, just as the
undifferentiated fire seems to take on the qualities of the iron it
heats. 191
eS:\y: uv:ac:
The disciple
B:Òm:ðN:apy:Î Any:T:a v:ast:Ø j:iv:B:av:H p:ratm:n:H
t:dÙp:aD:ðrÎ An:aedtv:an:Î n:an:adðrÎ n:aS: E\y:t:ð. 192
Whether it is by mistake or for some other reason that the supreme
self has become a living being, the identification is beginningless,
and there can be no end to what has no beginning. 192
At::ðsy: j:iv:B:av::ðep: en:ty:a B:v:et: s:ös:àet:H
n: en:v:t:ðüt: t:nm::ðx:H kT:ö m:ð Â:ig:Ør:ð v:d. 193
So the state of a living being is going to be a continual samsara,
and there can be no liberation for it. Can you explain this to me?
193
Â:ig:Ø,rÎ uv:ac:
The guru
s:my:kÏ p:àÄö tv:y:a ev:¾n:Î s:av:D:an:ðn: t:c:Î CáN:Ø
)am:aeN:ki n: B:v:et: B:Òanty:a m::ðeht:klp:n:a. 194
You have asked the right question, wise one, so now listen. The
mistaken imagination of illusion is not a reality. 194
B:Òaent:ö ev:n:a tv:Î As:¤sy: en:e\#y:sy: en:rakát:ðH
n: G:Xðt:Î A:T:üs:mb:nD::ð n:B:s::ð n:il:t:aedv:t:Î. 195
Outside of illusion no attachment can come about for what is by
nature unattached, actionless and formless, as in the case of
blueness and space (the sky). 195
sv:sy: dÓÄÙrÎ en:g:ØüN:sy:ae#y:sy:
)ty:gb::ðD:an:nd-p:sy: b:عðH
B:Òanty:a )apt::ð j:iv:B:av::ð n: s:ty::ð
m::ðhap:ay:ð n:asty:Î Av:st:Øsv:B:av:at:Î. 196
Existence as a living being, due to the mistaken intellect
identifying itself with its own light, the inner joy of
understanding, beyond qualities and beyond activity does not really
exist, so when the illusion ceases, it does too, having no real
existence of its own. 196
y:av:dÏ B:Òaent:s:Î t:av:dÏ Ov:asy: s:¶:a
em:Ty:ajW:an::ðj:Î j:àemB:t:sy: )m:adat:Î
rjjv:aö s:p::ðü B:Òaent:kal:in: Ov:
B:Òant:ðrÎ n:aS:ð n:òv: s:p::ðüep: t:¾t:Î. 197
So long as the illusion exists, it too has existence, created by the
confusion of misunderstanding, in the same way that a rope seems to
be a snake so long as the illusion persists. When the illusion comes
to an end, so does the snake. 197
An:aedtv:m:Î Aev:½ay:aH kay:üsy:aep: t:T:ð\y:t:ð
utp:Àay:aö t:Ø ev:½ay:am:Î A:ev:½km:n:a½Î Aep:. 198
)b::ðD:ð sv:pn:v:t:Î s:v:üö s:hm:Ül:ö ev:n:Sy:et:
An:a½Î Ap:idö n::ð en:ty:ö )ag:B:av: Ev: sPÙXm:Î. 199
Ignorance and its effects are seen as beginningless until with the
arising of insight, ignorance and its effects are destroyed along
with its root, even if beginningless, like dreams on awaking from
sleep. Even if beginningless this world of appearances is not
eternal like something originally nonexistent. 198, 199
An:adðrÎ Aep: ev:Dv:ös:H )ag:B:av:sy: v:iex:t:H
y:ºÚ¹Ðy:Øp:aeD:s:mb:nD:at:Î p:erkelp:t:m:Î A:tm:en:. 200
j:iv:tv:ö n: t:t::ðny:s:Î t:Ø sv:-p:ðN: ev:l:x:N:H
s:mb:nD:s:Î tv:Î A:tm:n::ð b:عÐy:a em:Ty:ajW:an:p:ØrHs:rH. 201
Even if beginningless, something originally nonexistent is seen to
come to an end. In the same way the living organism which is thought
to belong to oneself through its identification with the intellect,
does not really exist. On the other hand, the true self is quite
distinct from it, and the identification of oneself with the
intellect is due to misunderstanding. 200, 201
ev:en:v:àe¶:rÎ B:v:ðt:Î t:sy: s:my:g:Î jW:an:ðn: n:any:T:a
b:ÒÉatm:òktv:ev:jW:an:ö s:my:g:Î jW:an:ö Â:Øt:ðrÎ m:t:m:Î. 202
The cessation of that wrong identification is achieved by right
understanding, and by no other means. Right understanding is held by
scripture to be the recognition of the oneness of God and oneself.
202
t:datm:an:atm:n::ðH s:my:g:Î ev:v:ðkñn:òv: es:Dy:et:
t:t::ð ev:v:ðkH kt:üvy:H )ty:g:Î A:tm:s:datm:n::ðH. 203
This recognition is achieved by right discrimination between what is
truly oneself and what is not, so one must develop this
discrimination between the conventional self and ones true self. 203
j:l:ö p:ökv:dÏ Aty:nt:ö p:ökap:ay:ð j:l:ö sPÙXm:Î
y:T:a B:aet: t:T:atm:aep: d:ð\:aB:av:ð sPÙX)B:H. 204
Like very muddy water, which is clearly water again when the mud is
removed, ones true self shines forth again when the contamination is
removed. 204
As:eÀv:à¶::ò t:Ø s:datm:n:a sPÙXö
)t:iet:rÎ Ot:sy: B:v:ðt:Î )t:ic:H
t:t::ð en:ras:H krN:iy: Ov:
s:datm:n:H s:aDv:hm:aedv:st:Øn:H. 205
When the nonexistent is removed the individual is disclosed as the
supreme self, so one must see to the removal of thoughts about "me"
and suchlike from oneself. 205
At::ð n:ay:ö p:ratm:a sy:adÏ ev:jW:an:m:y:S:bdB:akÏ
ev:kaertv:aj:Î j:Rtv:ac:Î c: p:erecCÀtv:hðt:Øt:H
dáSy:tv:adÏ vy:eB:c:aertv:an:Î n:aen:ty::ð en:ty: E\y:t:ð. 206
The level of sense awareness cannot be ones true self since it is
changeable, physical, restricted, a senseobject and intermittent.
What is transient should not be mistaken what is eternal. 206
A:n:nd)et:eb:mb:c:Øemb:t:t:n:ØrÎ v:àe¶:s:Î t:m::ðj:àemB:t:a
sy:adÏ A:n:ndm:y:H e)y:aedg:ØN:kH sv:ðÄaT:ül:aB::ðdy:H
p:ØNy:sy:an:ØB:v:ð ev:B:aet: káet:n:am:an:nd-p:H sv:y:ö
s:v::ðü n:ndet: y:*: s:aD:Ø t:n:ØB:ànm:a*:H )y:tn:ö ev:n:a. 207
The level of pleasure is the aspect of ignorance which is a sort of
reflection the blissfulness of the true self. Its attributes are the
qualities of enjoyment and so on, which are experienced when an
enjoyable object is present. It presents itself spontaneously to
those fortunate enough to experience the fruits of good deeds,
something from which everyone experiences great pleasure without
trying to. 207
A:n:ndm:y:k:ðS:sy: s:Ø\:Øpt::ò sPÝet:ürÎ utkXa
sv:pn:j:ag:ry::ðrÎ I\:dÏ EÄs:ödS:ün:a ev:n:a. 208
The pleasure level is manifest at its fullest extent in deep sleep,
whereas in dreams and the waking state it is only partially
manifest, stimulated by such things as the sight of enjoyable
objects. 208
n:òv:ay:m:Î A:n:ndm:y:H p:ratm:a
s::ðp:aeD:ktv:at:Î )kát:ðrÎ ev:karat:Î
kay:ütv:hðt::ðH s:Økát:e#y:ay:a
ev:kars:öG:at:s:m:aeht:tv:at:Î. 209
The pleasure level cannot be the true self either, since it is
changeable, a conditioned phenomenon, the result of good deeds, and
involved in the other levels of consciousness as well. 209
p:Wc:an:am:Î Aep: k:ðS:an:aö en:\:ðD:ð y:ØeVt:t:H Â:Øt:ðH
t:eÀ\:ðD:av:eD: s:ax:i b::ðD:-p::ðv:eS:\y:t:ð. 210
When all these five levels have been disposed of by meditating on
scripture, when everything as been eliminated there remains the
witness, pure consciousness itself. 210
y::ðy:m:Î A:tm:a sv:y:öjy::ðet:H p:Wc:k:ðS:ev:l:x:N:H
Av:sT:a*:y:s:ax:i s:eÀev:ükar:ð en:rWj:n:H
s:dan:ndH s: ev:jW:ðy:H sv:atm:tv:ðn: ev:p:eÁ:t:a. 211
This self, the light itself, beyond the five levels, the witness of
the three states, changeless, unsullied, eternal joy this should be
recognised by the wise as ones real self. 211
eS:\y: uv:ac:
The disciple
em:Ty:atv:ðn: en:e\:¹ð\:Ø k:ðS:ð\v:Î Ot:ð\:Ø p:Wc:s:Ø
s:v:aüB:av:ö ev:n:a ekeWc:n:Î n: p:Sy:amy:Î A*: hð g:Ør:ð
ev:jW:ðy:ö ekm:Ø v:stv:Î Aest: sv:atm:n:atm:ev:p:eÁ:t:a. 212
After transcending these five levels as unreal, master, I find
nothing but a nothingness, the absence of everything. What object
remains for a wise person to identify with? 212
Â:ig:Ø,rÎ uv:ac:
The guru
s:ty:m:ØVt:ö tv:y:a ev:dn:Î en:p:ØN::ðes: ev:c:arN:ð
Ahm:aedev:karas:Î t:ð t:dB:av::ðy:m:Î Apy:Î An:Ø. 213
s:v:ðü y:ðn:an:ØB:Üy:nt:ð y:H sv:y:ö n:an:ØB:Üy:t:ð
t:m:Î A:tm:an:ö v:ðedt:arö ev:e¸ b:عÐy:a s:Øs:Üxm:y:a. 214
You have spoken the truth, learned one. You are skilled in
discrimination. That by which all other phenomena, starting with the
thought of "me", are experienced, but which is itself experienced by
none, know that, by the subtlest of understanding, as your true
self. 213, 214
t:ts:aex:kö B:v:ðt:Î t:¶:dÏ y:½dÏ y:ðn:an:ØB:Üy:t:ð
ksy:apy:Î An:n:ØB:Üt:aT:ðü s:aex:tv:ö n::ðp:y:Øjy:t:ð. 215
Whatever is experienced by something else has that as its witness.
When there is nothing else to experience something, one cannot talk
of it being witnessed. 215
As::ò sv:s:aex:k:ð B:av::ð y:t:H sv:ðn:an:ØB:Üy:t:ð
At:H p:rö sv:y:ö s:ax:at:Î )ty:g:atm:a n: c:ðt:rH. 216
This has the nature of selfawareness, since it is conscious of
itself. Thus the individual self is by its selfawareness none other
than the Supreme itself. 216
j:ag:Òt:Î sv:pn:s:Ø\:Øept:\:Ø sPÙXt:rö y::ðs::ò s:m:Øjj:àmB:t:ð
)ty:g:ÒÜp:t:y:a s:dahm:Î Ahm:Î Ety:Î Ant:H sPÙrn:Î n:òkD:a
n:an:akarev:karB:aeg:n: Em:an:Î p:Sy:ÀÎ AhöD:im:ØK:an:Î
en:ty:an:ndec:datm:n:a sPÙret: t:ö ev:e¹ sv:m:Î Ot:ö Æed. 217
That which is fully manifest in the waking state, dream and deep
sleep, which is perceived within in the form of the various
experiences and impressions like selfconsciousness, and which is
experienced as the eternal Bliss, and Consciousness of ones true
self, see this within your own heart. 217
G:X:ðdkñ eb:emb:t:m:kýeb:mb:m:Î
A:l::ðVy: m:ÜZ:ð rev:m:Î Ov: m:ny:t:ð
t:T:a ec:daB:as:m:Î up:aeD:s:ösT:ö
B:Òanty:ahm:Î Ety:Î Ov: j:R:ðeB:m:ny:t:ð. 218
The ignorant see the reflection of the sun in the water of a jar and
think it is the sun itself. In the same way the fool sees the
reflection of consciousness in its associated qualities and
mistakenly identifies himself with it. 218
G:Xö j:l:ö t:·t:m:kýeb:mb:ö
ev:hay: s:v:üö ev:en:rixy:t:ðkýH
t:XsT: Ot:t:Î e*:t:y:av:B:as:kH
sv:y:ö)kaS::ð ev:dÙ\:a y:T:a t:T:a. 219
The wise man ignores jar, water and the suns reflection in it, and
sees the selfilluminating sun itself which gives light to all three
but is independent of them. 219
dðhö eD:y:ö ec:t)et:eb:mb:m:Î Ov:ö
ev:s:àjy: b:ع:ò en:eht:ö g:Øhay:am:Î
dÓÄarm:Î A:tm:an:m:Î AK:NRb::ðD:ö
s:v:ü)kaS:ö s:ds:e¾l:x:N:m:Î. 220
en:ty:ö ev:B:Øö s:v:üg:t:ö s:Øs:Üxm:ö
Ant:b:üehHS:Üny:m:Î An:ny:m:Î A:tm:n:H
ev:jW:ay: s:my:{Ï en:j:-p:m:Î Ot:t:Î
p:Øm:an:Î ev:p:apm:a ev:rj::ð ev:m:àty:ØH. 221
ev:S::ðk A:n:ndG:n::ð ev:p:eÁ:t:Î
sv:y:ö kÙt:eÁ:n:Î n: eb:B:ðet: keÁ:t:Î
n:any::ðest: p:nT:a B:v:b:nD:m:ØVt:ðH
ev:n:a sv:t:¶v:av:g:m:ö m:Øm:Øx::ðH. 222
When a man abandons the body and the intellect which is just a
derivative of consciousness, and recognising ones true self, the
experiencer, pure awareness, the source of everything existent and
nonexistent, itself devoid of attributes, eternal, allpervading,
omnipresent, subtle, empty of inside and outside, and itself none
other than ones true self (for this is truly inborn), he becomes
free from evil, sinless and immortal, free from pain, and the
incarnation of joy. Master of himself he is afraid of noone. There
is no other way to the breaking of the bonds of temporal existence
for the seeker after liberation than the realisation of his own true
nature. 220, 221, 222
b:ÒÉaeB:Àtv:ev:jW:an:ö B:v:m::ðx:sy: karN:m:Î
y:ðn:ae¾t:iy:m:Î A:n:ndö b:ÒÉ s:mp:½t:ð b:ØD:òH. 223
The recognition of ones inseparable oneness with God is the means of
liberation from temporal existence, by which the wise person
achieves the nondual, blissful nature of God. 223
b:ÒÉB:Üt:s:Î t:Ø s:ös:àty:ò ev:¾an:Î n:av:t:üt:ð p:Øn:H
ev:jW:at:vy:m:Î At:H s:my:gb:ÒÉaeB:Àtv:m:Î A:tm:n:H. 224
Having attained the nature of God, the knower returns no more to the
temporal state, so it is essential to recognise ones own true
inseparable oneness with God. 224
s:ty:ö jW:an:m:Î An:nt:ö b:ÒÉ ev:S:عö p:rö sv:t:H es:¹m:Î
en:ty:an:ndòkrs:ö )ty:g:eB:Àö en:rnt:rö j:y:et:. 225
God is the truth, knowledge and eternal. He is pure, transcendent
and selfsufficient the everlasting, undiluted bliss which is
enthroned undivided and inseparable within. 225
s:dÏ Edö p:rm:a¾òt:ö sv:sm:adÏ Any:sy: v:st:Øn::ðB:av:at:Î
n: ÊÐ Any:dÏ Aest: ekeWc:t:Î s:my:kÏ p:rm:aT:üt:¶v:b::ðD:dS:ay:am:Î. 226
This supreme Reality is nondual in the absence of any other reality
beside itself. In the state of knowledge of ultimate truth there is
nothing else. 226
y:dÏ Edö s:kl:ö ev:Ã:ö n:an:a-p:ö )t:it:m:Î AjW:an:at:Î
t:t:Î s:v:üö b:ÒÉòv: )ty:st:aS:ð\:B:av:n:ad:ð\:m:Î. 227
This great variety of things which we experience through our failure
to understand is all really God himself, once the distortion of
thought is removed. 227
m:àtkay:üB:Üt::ðep: m:àd:ð n: eB:ÀH
kÙmB::ðest: s:v:ü*: t:Ø m:àtsv:-p:at:Î
n: kÙmB:-p:ö p:àT:g:Î Aest: kÙmB:H
kÙt::ð m:à\:a kelp:t:n:am:m:a*:H. 228
A pot made of clay is nothing other than clay, and its true reality
is always simply clay. The pot is no more than the shape of a pot,
and is just a mistake of imagination based on the name. 228
kñn:aep: m:àe»Àt:y:a sv:-p:ö
G:Xsy: s:ödS:üey:t:Øö n: S:Vy:t:ð
At::ð G:XH kelp:t: Ov: m::ðhat:Î
m:àdðv: s:ty:ö p:rm:aT:üB:Üt:m:Î. 229
No one can show that the reality of the pot is different from the
clay, so the pot is just an imagination based on misunderstanding,
and the clay is the only final reality. 229
s:dÏb:ÒÉkay:üö s:kl:ö s:dÏ Ov:ö
t:nm:a*:m:Î Ot:n:Î n: t:t::ðny:dÏ Aest:
Ast:iet: y::ð v:eVt: n: t:sy: m::ðh:ð
ev:en:g:üt::ð en:edÓt:v:t:Î )j:lp:H. 230
Similarly everything which is made of God is just God and has no
separate existence. Whoever says it exists is not yet free from
delusion and is like someone talking in his sleep. 230
b:ÒÉòv:ðdö ev:Ã:m:Î Ety:Î Ov: v:aN:i
Â::òt:i b:ÒÜt:ðT:v:üen:Åa v:erÅa
t:sm:adÏ Ot:dÏ b:ÒÉm:a*:ö eh ev:Ã:ö
n:aeD:Åan:adÏ eB:Àt:ar:ðep:t:sy:. 231
The supreme scripture of the Arthava Veda declares that "All this is
God", so all this is simply God, and anything in addition to that
has no reality. 231
s:ty:ö y:ed sy:aj:Î j:g:dÏ Ot:dÏ A:tm:n::ð
n: t:¶v:haen:rÎ en:g:m:a)m:aN:t:a
As:ty:Î Av:aedtv:m:Î Ap:ieS:t:ØH sy:adÏ
n:òt:t:Î *:y:ö s:aD:Ø eht:ö m:hatm:n:am:Î. 232
If it has any reality, that is the end of any eternal reality for
oneself, the scriptures are false, and the Lord himself a liar,
three things which are quite unacceptable to great souls. 232
IÃ:r:ð v:st:Øt:¶v:jW::ð n: c:ahö t:ð\v:Î Av:esT:t:H
n: c: m:tsT:aen: B:Üt:an:ity:Î Ov:m:Î Ov: vy:c:iVl:àp:t:Î. 233
The Lord, who knows the reality of things, has stated "I do not
depend on them" (Bhagavad Gita 9.4) and "Things do not exist in me"
(Bhagavad Gita 9.5). 233
y:ed s:ty:ö B:v:ðdÏ ev:Ã:ö s:Ø\:Øpt:am:Î up:l:By:t:am:Î
y:n:Î n::ðp:l:By:t:ð ekeWc:dÏ At::ðs:tsv:pn:v:n:Î m:à\:a. 234
If everything really existed, it ought to exist in deep sleep too.
Since nothing does, then it follows that it is unreal and an
illusion like a dream. 234
At:H p:àT:{Ï n:aest: j:g:t:Î p:ratm:n:H
p:àT:kÏ )t:iet:s:Î t:Ø m:à\:a g:ØN:aedv:t:Î
A:r:ðep:t:sy:aest: ekm:Î AT:üv:¶:a
eD:Åan:m:Î A:B:aet: t:T:a B:Òm:ðN:. 235
So the world is not distinct from the Supreme Self, and its
perception is an illusion like all attributes. What we add to That
has no reality, but merely appears to exist in addition to That
through misunderstanding. 235
B:Òant:sy: y:½dÏ B:Òm:t:H )t:it:ö
b:ÒaÉòv: t:¶:dÏ rj:t:ö eh S:ØeVt:H
Edö t:y:a b:ÒÉ s:dòv: -py:t:ð
tv:Î A:r:ðep:t:ö b:ÒÉeN: n:am:m:a*:m:Î. 236
Whatever a deluded person experiences in his delusion is still
always God. The silver is only motherofpearl. It is always God that
is mistaken for something else, and whatever is added to God is just
a name. 236
At:H p:rö b:ÒÉ s:de¾t:iy:ö
ev:S:عev:jW:an:G:n:ö en:rWj:n:m:Î
)aS:ant:m:Î A:½nt:ev:hin:m:Î Ae#y:ö
en:rnt:ran:ndrs:sv:-p:m:Î. 237
So there exists only the supreme God, the One Reality without a
second, consisting of pure consciousness, without any blemish, peace
itself and without beginning or end, actionless and having the
nature of pure bliss. 237
en:rst:m:ay:akát:s:v:üB:ðdö
en:ty:ö s:ØK:ö en:\kl:m:Î A)m:ðy:m:Î
A-p:m:Î Avy:Vt:m:Î An:aKy:m:Î Avy:y:ö
jy::ðet:H sv:y:ö ekeWc:dÏ Edö c:kaest:. 238
Beyond all delusioncreated distinctions, this Whatever shines by its
own light, eternal, fulfilled, indivisible, infinite, formless,
inexpressible, nameless and indestructible. 238
jW:at:àjW:ðy:jW:an:S:Üny:m:Î An:nt:ö en:ev:üklp:km:Î
kñv:l:aK:NRec:nm:a*:ö p:rö t:¶v:ö ev:dÙrÎ b:ØD:aH. 239
Seers know this supreme Reality, free from the distinctions of
knower, known and knowledge, infinite, complete in itself and
consisting of pure Awareness. 239
Ahðy:m:Î An:Øp:adðy:ö m:n::ðv:ac:am:Î Ag::ðc:rm:Î
A)m:ðy:m:Î An:a½nt:ö b:ÒÉ p:ÜN:üm:Î Ahö m:hH. 240
What cannot be got rid of or taken hold of, beyond the sphere of
mind and speech, measureless and beginningandendless is God, ones
true self and supreme glory. 240
t:¶v:ö p:daBy:am:Î AeB:D:iy:m:an:y::ðH
b:ÒÉatm:n::ðH S::ðeD:t:y::ðrÎ y:ditT:m:Î
Â:Øty:a t:y::ðs:Î t:¶v:m:Î As:iet: s:my:g:Î
Oktv:m:Î Ov: )et:p:a½t:ð m:ØhÚH. 241
The words "God" and "yourself", referred to by the terms "That" and
"Thou" are conscientiously purified by repetition of the scriptural
phrase "Thou art That", and are clearly seen to be identical. 241
OVy:ö t:y::ðrÎ l:ex:t:y::ðrÎ n: v:acy:y::ðH
en:g:½t:ðny::ðny:ev:,¹D:em:üN::ðH
K:½:ðt:B:anv::ðrÎ Ev: raj:B:àty:y::ðH
kÝp:amb:ØraSy::ðH p:rm:aN:Øm:ðv::ðüH. 242
Their identity can be indicated but not described, since they have
mutually exclusive meanings like a firefly and the sun, a king and a
slave, a well and the ocean, or an atom and mount Meru. 242
t:y::ðrÎ ev:r:ðD::ðy:m:Î up:aeD:kelp:t::ð
n: v:ast:v:H keÁ:dÏ up:aeD:rÎ O\:H
IS:sy: m:ay:a m:hdaedkarN:ö
j:iv:sy: kay:üö S:àN:Ø p:Wc:k:ðS:m:Î. 243
The distinction between them is due to the imagined additional
associations, but in reality there are no such additions. The
primary mental activity is due to the Lords Maya, and in the case of
the individual it is the result of the five sheaths. 243
Ot:av:Î up:aD:i p:rj:iv:y::ðs:Î t:y::ðH
s:my:e§ras:ð n: p:r:ð n: j:iv:H
rajy:ö n:rðndÓsy: B:Xsy: K:ðXkH
t:y::ðrÎ Ap::ðhð n: B:X:ð n: raj:a. 244
These are additions to the Lord and the individual, and when they
are removed, there is neither Supreme nor individual. A ruler is
known by his kingdom, and a warrior by his arms. Take these away,
and there is neither warrior nor king. 244
AT:at: A:dðS: Eet: Â:Øet:H sv:y:ö
en:\:ðD:et: b:ÒÉeN: kelp:t:ö ¾y:m:Î
Â:Øet:)m:aN:an:Øg:àhit:b::ðD:at:Î
t:y::ðrÎ en:ras:H krN:iy: Ov:. 245
Scripture itself, with the words "Here is the teaching"
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.6), denies the imagined duality in
God. One must get rid of these additions by means of understanding
backed up by the authority of the scriptures. 245
n:ðdö n:ðdö kelp:t:tv:an:Î n: s:ty:ö
rjj:ØdáÄvy:al:v:t:Î sv:pn:v:c:Î c:
EtT:ö dáSy:ö s:aD:Øy:ØVty:a vy:p::ðÊ
jW:ðy:H p:Á:adÏ OkB:av:st:y::ðrÎ y:H. 246
"Not this, not this" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.6) means that
nothing one can think of is real, like a rope mistaken for a snake,
or like a dream. Carefully getting rid of the apparent in this way,
one should then come to understand the oneness of the Lord and the
individual. 246
t:t:s:Î t:Ø t::ò l:x:N:y:a s:Øl:xy::ò
t:y::ðrÎ AK:NRòkrs:tv:es:¹y:ð
n:al:ö j:hty:a n: t:T:aj:hty:a
ekn:Î t:ÜB:y:aT:aüetm:ky:òv: B:avy:m:Î. 247
So the meaning of these two expressions, Lord and individual, must
be carefully considered until their essential oneness is understood.
It is not enough just to reject or accept either of them. One must
come to the recognition of the identity of the meaning of them both.
247
s: dðv:d¶::ðy:m:Î Et:ih c:òkt:a
ev:,¹D:m:aüöS:m:Î Ap:asy: kTy:t:ð
y:T:a t:T:a t:¶v:m:Î As:iet:v:aVy:ð
ev:,¹D:m:aün:Î uB:y:*: ehtv:a. 248
s:öl:xy: ec:nm:a*:t:y:a s:datm:n::ðH
AK:NRB:av:H p:erc:iy:t:ð b:ØD:òH
Ov:ö m:hav:aVy:S:t:ðn: kTy:t:ð
b:ÒÉatm:n::ðrÎ OðVy:m:Î AK:NRB:av:H. 249
In the phrase "this person is Devadatta" the identity is indicated
by removing the distinction, and in the same way, in the expression
"Thou art That" the wise must get rid of the apparent contradiction
and recognise the complete identity of God and self by carefully
identifying the shared attribute of pure consciousness. Hundreds of
scriptural sayings declare the identity of oneself and God in this
way. 248, 249
AsT:Ül:m:Î Ety:Î Ot:dÏ As:eÀrsy:
es:¹ö sv:t::ð vy::ðm:v:dÏ A)t:Vy:ým:Î
At::ð m:à\:am:a*:m:Î Edö )t:it:ö
j:hieh y:t:Î sv:atm:t:y:a g:àhit:m:Î
b:ÒÉahm:Î Ety:Î Ov: ev:S:عb:عÐy:a
ev:e¹ sv:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î AK:NRb::ðD:m:Î. 250
In accordance with "It is nothing material" (Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad 3.8.8) eliminate the unreal and find that which like the
sky is pure and solitary, and is beyond thought. Eliminate too this
purely illusory body which you have hitherto identified with
yourself. Then recognising, "I am God" with purified understanding,
see your true self as undifferentiated consciousness. 250
m:àtkay:üö s:kl:ö G:Xaed s:t:t:ö m:ànm:a*:m:Î Ov:aeht:ö
t:¾t:Î s:jj:en:t:ö s:datm:km:Î Edö s:nm:a*:m:Î Ov:aeK:l:m:Î
y:sm:an:Î n:aest: s:t:H p:rö ekm:Î Aep: t:ts:ty:ö s: A:tm:a sv:y:ö
t:sm:at:Î t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: )S:ant:m:Î Am:l:ö b:ÒÉa¾y:ö y:tp:rm:Î. 251
Everything made of clay, such as pot, is always to be seen as purely
clay. In the same way, everything deriving from this supreme Self
must be simply recognised as pure Reality. Since there is no reality
beyond that, it is truly ones very self, and you are that still,
unblemished, nondual, supreme Reality of God. 251
en:dÓakelp:t:dðS:kal:ev:\:y:jW:a*:aed s:v:üö y:T:a
em:Ty:a t:¾dÏ Ehaep: j:ag:Òet: j:g:tsv:ajW:an:kay:ütv:t:H
y:sm:adÏ Ov:m:Î Edö S:rirkrN:)aN:ahm:a½Î Apy:Î As:t:Î
t:sm:at:Î t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: )S:ant:m:Î Am:l:ö b:ÒÉa¾y:ö y:tp:rm:Î. 252
Just as the things like places, time, objects and observer imagined
in a dream are unreal, so the world experienced in the waking state
too is created by ones own ignorance. Since the bodycreating forces,
selfidentification, and so on, are also unreal, you are that still,
unblemished, nondual, supreme Reality of God. 252
y:*: B:Òanty:a kelp:t: t:dÏ ev:v:ðkñ
t:¶:nm:a*:ö n:òv: t:sm:adÏ ev:eB:Àm:Î
sv:pn:ð n:Äö sv:pn:ev:Ã:ö ev:ec:*:ö
sv:sm:ae»Àö ekn:Î n:Ø dáÄö )b::ðD:ð. 253
That which is mistakenly imagined to exist is recognised by wisdom
to be That alone, and is thus undifferentiated. The colourful world
of a dream disappears. What remains other than oneself on waking?
253
j:aet:n:iet:kÙl:g::ð*:dÝrg:ö
n:am:-p:g:ØN:d:ð\:v:ej:üt:m:Î
dðS:kal:ev:\:y:aet:v:et:ü y:dÏ
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 254
Beyond birth, creed, family and tribe, free from the distortion of
attributes of name and appearance, transcending locality, time and
objects, you are That, God himself. Meditate on the fact within
yourself. 254
y:tp:rö s:kl:v:ag:g::ðc:rö
g::ðc:rö ev:m:l:b::ðD:c:x:Ø\:H
S:عec:dÏG:n:m:Î An:aed v:st:Ø y:dÏ
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 255
That supreme Reality beyond the realm of anything that can be said,
but the resort of the pure eye of understanding, the pure reality of
ConsciousnessAwarenessMind, etc. you are That, God himself.
Meditate on the fact within yourself. 255
\:eRÏB:rÎ Uem:üeB:rÎ Ay::ðeg: y::ðeg:ÆdÏ
B:aev:t:ö n: krN:òrÎ ev:B:aev:t:m:Î
b:عÐy:v:ð½m:n:v:dÏ y:m:Î Aest: y:dÏ
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 256
That which is unaffected by the six afflictions (of aging, death,
hunger, thirst, desire and ignorance), which is meditated on in the
heart of the devotee, unrecognised by the senses, unknown by the
intellect you are That, God himself. Meditate on the fact within
yourself. 256
B:Òaent:kelp:t:j:g:t:Î kl:aÂ:y:ö
sv:aÂ:y:ö c: s:ds:e¾l:x:N:m:Î
en:\kl:ö en:,p:m:an:v:e¹ y:dÏ
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 257
That basis on which the mistakenly imagined world exists, itself
dependent on nothing else, devoid of true and false, without parts,
and without mental image you are That, God himself. Meditate on the
fact within yourself. 257
j:nm:v:àe¹p:erN:ty:p:x:y:
vy:aeD:n:aS:n:ev:hin:m:Î Avy:y:m:Î
ev:Ã:s:à\®v:Î Aev:G:at:karN:ö
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 258
That which is indestructible, free from birth, growth, development,
decay, illness and death; which is the cause of the creation,
maintenance and destruction of everything you are That, God
himself. Meditate on the fact within yourself. 258
Ast:B:ðdm:Î An:p:ast:l:x:N:ö
en:st:r¤j:l:raeS:en:Á:l:m:Î
en:ty:m:Î uVt:m:Î Aev:B:Vt:m:Üet:ü y:dÏ
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 259
Free of parts, of an unchanging quality, undisturbed like a waveless
sea, declared to be of an eternally indivisible nature you are
That, God ihimself. Meditate on the fact within yourself. 259
Okm:Î Ov: s:dÏ An:ðkkarN:ö
karN:ant:ren:rasy:karN:m:Î
kay:ükarN:ev:l:x:N:ö sv:y:ö
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 260
Itself One but the cause of the many, the supreme Cause which does
away with all other causes, itself devoid of distinctions of "cause"
and "effect" you are That, God himself. Meditate on the fact within
yourself. 260
en:ev:üklp:km:Î An:lp:m:Î Ax:rö
y:t:Î x:rax:rev:l:x:N:ö p:rm:Î
en:ty:m:Î Avy:y:s:ØK:ö en:rWj:n:ö
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 261
Without modification, great and unending, the supreme Reality beyond
destruction and indestructibility, the eternal unfading,
unblemished, fulfilment you are That, God himself. Meditate on the
fact within yourself. 261
y:dÏ ev:B:aet: s:dÏ An:ðkD:a B:Òm:at:Î
n:am:-p:g:ØN:ev:e#y:atm:n:a
hðm:v:t:Î sv:y:m:Î Aev:e#y:ö s:da
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 262
That Reality which manifests itself as the many through the
illusions of names, shapes, attributes and changes, but which, like
gold is always itself unchanged (in different objects) you are
That, God himself. Meditate on the fact within yourself. 262
y:c:Î c:kasty:Î An:p:rö p:ratp:rö
)ty:g:ðkrs:m:Î A:tm:l:x:N:m:Î
s:ty:ec:ts:ØK:m:Î An:nt:m:Î Avy:y:ö
b:ÒÉ t:t:Î tv:m:Î Aes: B:av:y:atm:en:. 263
That, beyond which there is nothing, but which shines beyond
everything else, the inner, uniform selfnature of
beingconsciousnessjoy, infinite and eternal you are That, God
himself. Meditate on the fact within yourself. 263
uVt:m:Î AT:üm:Î Em:m:Î A:tm:en: sv:y:ö
B:av:y:ðt:Î )eT:t:y:ØeVt:eB:rÎ eD:y:a
s:öS:y:aedreht:ö kramb:Øv:t:Î
t:ðn: t:¶v:en:g:m::ð B:ev:\y:et:. 264
One should meditate within oneself with the mind well controlled on
the truth declared here. Then the truth will be disclosed free from
doubt, like water in the palm of ones hand. 264
s:mb::ðD:m:a*:ö p:erS:عt:¶v:ö
ev:jW:ay: s:öG:ð n:àp:v:c:Î c: s:òny:ð
t:daÂ:y:H sv:atm:en: s:v:üda esT:t::ð
ev:l:ap:y: b:ÒÉeN: ev:Ã:j:at:m:Î. 265
Realising ones true nature as pure consciousness, one should remain
always established in oneself, like a king surrounded by his army,
and should redirect all that is back into God. 265
b:ع:ò g:Øhay:aö s:ds:e¾l:x:N:ö
b:ÒÉaest: s:ty:ö p:rm:Î Ae¾t:iy:m:Î
t:datm:n:a y::ð*: v:s:ðdÏ g:Øhay:aö
p:Øn:rÎ n: t:sy:a¤g:Øha)v:ðS:H. 266
In the cave of the mind, free from attributes of being and notbeing,
there exists God, the Truth, supreme and without a second. He who by
himself dwells in that cave returns no more to a mothers womb. 266
jW:at:ð v:st:Øny:Î Aep: b:l:v:t:i v:as:n:an:aedrÎ O\:a
kt:aü B::ðVt:apy:Î Ahm:Î Eet: dáZa y:asy: s:ös:arhðt:ØH
)ty:gdá\®atm:en: en:v:s:t:a s:ap:n:ðy:a )y:tn:at:Î
m:ØeVt:ö )ahÚs:Î t:dÏ Eh m:Øn:y::ð v:as:n:at:an:v:ö y:t:Î. 267
Even when one knows the truth, there still remains the strong,
beginningless tendency to think "I am the doer and the reaper of the
consequences" which is the cause of samsara. It must be carefully
removed by living in the state of observing the truth within
oneself. The wise call that removal of this tendency liberation. 267
Ahö m:m:ðet: y::ð B:av::ð dðhax:adav:Î An:atm:en:
ADy:as::ðy:ö en:rst:vy::ð ev:dÙ\:a sv:atm:en:Åy:a. 268
The tendency to see "me" and "mine" in the body and the senses,
which are not oneself must be done way with by the wise by remaining
identified with ones true self. 268
jW:atv:a sv:ö )ty:g:atm:an:ö b:Øe¹t:¾âe¶:s:aex:N:m:Î
s::ðhm:Î Ety:Î Ov: s:¾â¶y:an:atm:ny:Î A:tm:m:et:ö j:eh. 269
Recognising ones true inner self, the witness of the mind and its
operations, and reflecting on the truth of "I am That", get rid of
this wrong opinion about oneself. 269
l::ðkan:Øv:t:ün:ö ty:Vtv:a ty:Vtv:a dðhan:Øv:t:ün:m:Î
S:as*:an:Øv:t:ün:ö ty:Vtv:a sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 270
Abandoning the concerns of the world, abandoning concern about the
body, and abandoning even concern about scriptures, see to the
removal wrong assumptions about yourself. 270
l::ðkv:as:n:y:a j:nt::ðH S:as*:v:as:n:y:aep: c:
dðhv:as:n:y:a jW:an:ö y:T:av:n:Î n:òv: j:ay:t:ð. 271
It is owing to peoples worldly desires, their desires for
scriptures, and their desires concerning their bodies that they do
not achieve realisation. 271
s:ös:arkarag:àhm::ðx:m:Î EcC:ðH
Ay::ðm:y:ö p:aden:b:nD:S:àöK:l:m:Î
v:dent: t:jjW:aH p:XÙ v:as:n:a*:y:ö
y::ðsm:adÏ ev:m:ØVt:H s:m:Øp:òet: m:ØeVt:m:Î. 272
Those who know about these things call these three desires the iron
fetter that binds the feet of those who are seeking escape from the
prisonhouse of samsara. He who is free from them reaches liberation.
272
j:l:aeds:ös:g:üv:S:at:Î )B:Üt:
dÙg:ünD:D:Üt:ag:,edvy:v:as:n:a
s:öG:\:üN:ðn:òv: ev:B:aet: s:my:g:Î
ev:D:Üy:m:an:ð s:et: b:aÊg:nD:ð. 273
The beautiful smell of aloe wood which is masked by a bad smell
through contamination by water and such things becomes evident again
when it is rubbed clean. 273
Ant:HeÂ:t:an:nt:dÝrnt:v:as:n:a
D:Ül:iev:el:pt:a p:rm:atm:v:as:n:a
)jW:aet:s:öG:\:üN:t::ð ev:S:عa
)t:iy:t:ð c:ndn:g:nD:v:t:Î sPÙXm:Î. 274
Desire for ones true self which is veiled by endless internal other
desires becomes pure and evident again like the smell of sandalwood
through application with wisdom. 274
An:atm:v:as:n:aj:al:òs:Î et:r:ðB:Üt:atm:v:as:n:a
en:ty:atm:en:Åy:a t:ð\:aö n:aS:ð B:aet: sv:y:ö sPÙXm:Î. 275
When the mass of desires for things other than oneself obscuring the
contrary desire for ones real self are eliminated by constant
selfremembrance, then it discloses itself of its own accord. 275
y:T:a y:T:a )ty:g:Î Av:esT:t:ö m:n:H
t:T:a t:T:a m:ØWc:et: b:aÊv:as:n:am:Î
en:HS:ð\:m::ðx:ð s:et: v:as:n:an:aö
A:tm:an:ØB:Üet:H )et:b:nD:S:Üny:a. 276
As the mind becomes more and more inwardturned, it becomes gradually
freed from external desires, and when all such desires are fully
eliminated selfrealisation is completely freed from obstruction. 276
sv:atm:ny:Î Ov: s:da esT:tv:a m:n::ð n:Sy:et: y::ðeg:n:H
v:as:n:an:aö x:y:S:Î c:at:H sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 277
When he is always poised in selfawareness the yogis thinking mind
stops, and the cessation of desires takes place as a result, so see
to the removal of all ideas of additions to your true self. 277
t:m::ð ¾aBy:aö rj:H s:¶v:at:Î s:¶v:ö S:عðn: n:Sy:et:
t:sm:at:Î s:¶v:m:Î Av:ÄBy: sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 278
Dullness (tamas) is removed by passion (rajas) and purity (sattva),
desire is removed by purity, and purity when itself purified, so
establishing yourself in purity, see to the removal of all ideas of
additions to your true self. 278
)arbD:ö p:Ø\y:et: v:p:ØrÎ Eet: en:eÁ:ty: en:Á:l:H
D:òy:üm:Î A:l:mby: y:tn:ðn: sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 279
Recognising that the effects of past conditioning will sustain the
body, remain undisturbed and work away hard at seeing to the removal
of all ideas of additions to your true self. 279
n:ahö j:iv:H p:rö b:ÒÉðty:Î At:dÏ vy:av:àe¶:p:Üv:ükm:Î
v:as:n:av:ðg:t:H )apt:sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 280
"I am not the individual life. I am God." Getting rid of all
previous misidentifications like this, see to the removal of all
ideas of additions to your true self created by the power of
desires. 280
Â:Øty:a y:ØVty:a sv:an:ØB:Üty:a jW:atv:a s:av:aütmy:m:Î A:tm:n:H
Vv:ec:dÏ A:B:as:t:H )apt:sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 281
Recognising yourself as the self of everything by the authority of
scripture, by reasoning and by personal experience, see to the
removal of all ideas of additions to your true self whenever they
manifest themselves. 281
An:adan:ev:s:g:aüBy:am:i\:n:Î n:aest: e#y:a m:Øn:ðH
t:dÏ Oken:Åy:a en:ty:ö sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 282
The wise man has no business concerning himself with the acquisition
or disposal of things, so by adherence to the one reality, see to
the removal of all ideas of additions to your true self. 282
t:t:Î tv:m:Î Asy:aedv:aVy::ðtT:b:ÒÉatm:òktv:b::ðD:t:H
b:ÒÉNy:Î A:tm:tv:dÏ A:µaüy: sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 283
Realising the identity of yourself and God by the help of sayings
like "You are That", see to the removal of all ideas of additions to
your true self so as to strengthen the adherence of yourself in God.
283
AhöB:av:sy: dðhðesm:n:Î en:HS:ð\:ev:l:y:av:eD:
s:av:D:an:ðn: y:ØVt:atm:a sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 284
Eliminate completely your selfidentification with this body, and
with determination see that your mind is devoted to the removal of
all ideas of additions to your true self. 284
)t:iet:rÎ j:iv:j:g:t::ðH sv:pn:v:dÏ B:aet: y:av:t:a
t:av:n:Î en:rnt:rö ev:¾n:Î sv:aDy:as:ap:n:y:ö kÙ,. 285
So long as even a dreamlike awareness of yourself as an individual
in the world remains, as a wise person persistently see to the
removal of all ideas of additions to your true self. 285
en:dÓay:a l::ðkv:at:aüy:aH S:bdadðrÎ Aep: ev:sm:àt:ðH
Vv:ec:n:Î n:av:s:rö d¶v:a ec:nt:y:atm:an:m:Î A:tm:en:. 286
Without giving way to the least descent into forgetfulness through
sleep, worldly affairs or the various senses, meditate on yourself
within. 286
m:at:aep:*::ðrÎ m:l::ð»Üt:ö m:l:m:aös:m:y:ö v:p:ØH
ty:Vtv:a c:aNRal:v:dÏ dÝrö b:ÒÉi B:Üy: kát:i B:v:. 287
Shunning the body which is derived from the impurities of your
mother and father and itself made up of impurities and flesh as you
would an outcaste from a good distance, become Godlike and achieve
the goal of life. 287
G:XakaS:ö m:hakaS: Ev:atm:an:ö p:ratm:en:
ev:l:apy:aK:NRB:av:ðn: t:Ü\N:i B:v: s:da m:Øn:ð. 288
Restoring the self in you to the supreme Self like the space in a
jar back to Space itself by meditation on their indivisibility,
always remain silent, wise one. 288
sv:)kaS:m:Î AeD:Åan:ö sv:y:ö B:Üy: s:datm:n:a
b:ÒÉaNRm:Î Aep: ep:NRaNRö ty:jy:t:aö m:l:B:aNRv:t:Î. 289
Taking up through your true self the condition of your real glory,
reject thoughts of a divine universe as much as of yourself as a
reality, as you would a dish of filth. 289
ec:datm:en: s:dan:ndð dðha-Zam:Î AhöeD:y:m:Î
en:v:ðSy: el:¤m:Î uts:àjy: kñv:l::ð B:v: s:v:üda. 290
Transferring your present selfidentification with the body to
yourself as consciousness, being and bliss, abandon the body and be
complete forever. 290
y:*:ò\: j:g:daB:as::ð dp:üN:ant:H p:Ørö y:T:a
t:dÏ b:ÒÉahm:Î Eet: jW:atv:a kát:káty::ð B:ev:\y:es:. 291
When you know "I am that very God" in which the reflection of the
world appears, like a city in a mirror, then you will be one who has
achieved the goal of life. 291
y:t:Î s:ty:B:Üt:ö en:j:-p:m:Î A:½ö
ec:d¾y:an:ndm:Î A-p:m:Î Ae#y:m:Î
t:dÏ Oty: em:Ty:av:p:ØrÎ uts:àj:ðt:
S:òl:Ü\:v:dÏ v:ð\:m:Î up:a¶:m:Î A:tm:n:H. 292
Attaining that Reality which is selfexistent and primal, nondual
consciousness, and bliss, formless and actionless, one should
abandon the unreal body taken on by oneself, like an actor doffing
his costume. 292
s:v:aütm:n:a dáSy:m:Î Edö m:à\:òv:
n:òv:ahm:Î AT:üH x:eN:ktv:dS:ün:at:Î
j:an:amy:Î Ahö s:v:üm:Î Eet: )t:iet:H
kÙt::ðhm:Î A:dðH x:eN:ksy: es:Dy:ðt:Î. 293
All this experienced by oneself is false, and so is the sense of
Ihood in view of its ephemeral nature. How can "I know everything"
be true of something which is itself ephemeral. 293
Ahöp:daT:üs:Î tv:Î Ahm:aeds:ax:i
en:ty:ö s:Ø\:Øpt:av:Î Aep: B:av:dS:ün:at:Î
b:ÒÜt:ð ÊÐ Aj::ð en:ty: Eet: Â:Øet:H sv:y:ö
t:t:Î )ty:g:atm:a s:ds:e¾l:x:N:H. 294
That which warrants the term "I" on the other hand is that which is
the observer of the thought "I" etc. in view of its permanent
existence even in the state of deep sleep. Scripture itself declares
that it is "unborn and eternal" (Katha Upanishad 1.2.18). That true
inner self is distinct from both being and notbeing. 294
ev:kaerN:aö s:v:üev:karv:ð¶:a
en:ty:aev:kar:ð B:ev:t:Øö s:m:hüet:
m:n::ðrT:sv:pn:s:Ø\:Øept:\:Ø sPÙXö
p:Øn:H p:Øn:rÎ dáÄm:Î As:¶v:m:Î Ot:y::ðH. 295
The knower of all the changes in changing things must itself be
permanent and unchanging. The unreality in the extremes of being and
notbeing is repeatedly seen in the experience of thought, dreaming
and deep sleep. 295
At::ðeB:m:an:ö ty:j: m:aös:ep:NRð
ep:NRaeB:m:aen:ny:Î Aep: b:Øe¹kelp:t:ð
kal:*:y:ab:aDy:m:Î AK:NRb::ðD:ö
jW:atv:a sv:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î up:òeh S:aent:m:Î. 296
So give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with
what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise
your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time,
past, present or future, and enter Peace. 296
ty:j:aeB:m:an:ö kÙl:g::ð*:n:am:
-p:aÂ:m:ð\v:Î A:dÓüS:v:Î A:eÂ:t:ð\:Ø
el:¤sy: D:m:aün:Î Aep: kt:àüt:aedös:Î
ty:Vt:a B:v:aK:NRs:ØK:sv:-p:H. 297
Give up identification with family, tribe, name, shape and status
which depend on the putrid body. Give up physical properties too
such as the sense of being the doer and be the very nature of
undifferentiated joy. 297
s:nty:Î Any:ð )et:b:nD:aH p:Øös:H s:ös:arhðt:v::ð dáÄaH
t:ð\:am:Î Ov:ö m:Ül:ö )T:m:ev:kar:ð B:v:ty:Î AhökarH. 298
There are other obstacles seen to be the cause of samsara for men.
Of these the root and first manifestation is the sense of doership.
298
y:av:t:Î sy:at:Î sv:sy: s:mb:nD::ðhökarðN: dÙratm:n:a
t:av:n:Î n: l:ðS:m:Î A:*:aep: m:ØeVt:v:at:aü ev:l:x:N:a. 299
So long as one has any association with this awful sense of being
the doer there cannot be the least achievement of liberation which
is something very different. 299
Ahökarg:Òhan:Î m:ØVt:H sv:-p:m:Î up:p:½t:ð
c:ndÓv:dÏ ev:m:l:H p:ÜN:üH s:dan:ndH sv:y:ö)B:H. 300
Free from the grasp of feeling oneself the doer, one achieves ones
true nature which is, like the moon, pure, consummate,
selfilluminating being and bliss. 300
y::ð v:a p:Ørð s::ðhm:Î Eet: )t:it::ð
b:عÐy:a )Vl:àpt:s:Î t:m:s:aet:m:ÜZy:a
t:sy:òv: en:HS:ð\:t:y:a ev:n:aS:ð
b:ÒÉatm:B:av:H )et:b:nD:S:Üny:H. 301
Even he who, with a mind under the influence of strong dullness, has
thought of himself as the body, will attain to full identification
with God when that delusion is completely removed. 301
b:ÒÉan:nden:eD:rÎ m:hab:l:v:t:ahökarG::ðraehn:a
s:öv:ð\®Î A:tm:en: rxy:t:ð g:ØN:m:y:òS:Î c:NRðs:Î e*:eB:rÎ m:st:kóH
ev:jW:an:aKy:m:haes:n:a Â:Øet:m:t:a ev:ecC½ S:i\:ü*:y:ö
en:m:Üüly:aehm:Î Em:ö en:eD:ö s:ØK:krö D:ir:ðn:ØB::ðVt:Øö x:m:H. 302
The treasure of the bliss of God is coiled round by the very
powerful, terrible snake of doership which guards it with its three
fierce heads consisting of the three qualities (dullness, passion
and purity) but the wise man can enjoy this blissimparting treasure
by cutting off the snakes three heads with the great sword of
understanding of the scriptures. 302
y:av:dÏ v:a y:t:Î ekeWc:dÏ ev:\:d:ð\:sPÝet:ürÎ Aest: c:ðdÏ dðhð
kT:m:Î A:r:ðgy:ay: B:v:ðt:Î t:¾dÏ Ahnt:aep: y::ðeg:n::ð m:ØVty:ò. 303
How can one be free from pain so long as there is there is any trace
of poison in the body? The same applies to the pain of
selfconsciousness in an aspirants liberation. 303
Ahm::ðty:nt:en:v:à¶y:a t:tkát:n:an:aev:klp:s:öÆty:a
)ty:Vt:¶v:ev:v:ðkadÏ Edm:Î Ahm:Î Asm:iet: ev:ndt:ð t:¶v:m:Î. 304
In the total cessation of selfidentification and the ending of the
multifarious mental misrepresentations it causes, the truth of "This
is what I am" is achieved through inner discernment. 304
Ahökarð kt:üy:Îü Ahm:Î Eet: m:et:ö m:ØWc: s:hs:a
ev:karatm:ny:Î A:tm:)et:Pl:j:Øe\: sv:esT:et:m:Øe\:
y:dÏ ADy:as:at:Î )apt:a j:en:m:àet:j:radÙHK:b:hÚl:a
)t:ic:S:Î ec:nm:Üt:ðüs:Î t:v: s:ØK:t:n::ðH s:ös:àet:rÎ Ey:m:Î. 305
Get rid forthwith of doership, your selfidentification, that is,
with the agent, a distorted vision of yourself which stops you from
resting in your true nature, and by identification with which you,
who are really pure consciousness and a manifestation of joy itself,
experience samsara with all its birth, decay, death and suffering.
305
s:dòk-p:sy: ec:datm:n::ð ev:B::ðrÎ
A:n:ndm:Üt:ðürÎ An:v:½kit:ðüH
n:òv:any:T:a Vv:Î A:py:Î Aev:kaerN:s:Î t:ð
ev:n:ahm:Î ADy:as:m:Î Am:Ø\y: s:ös:àet:H. 306
You are really unchanging, the eternally unvarying Lord,
consciousness, bliss and indestructible glory. If it were not for
the wrong identification with a false self you would not be subject
to samsara. 306
t:sm:adÏ Ahökarm:Î Em:ö sv:S:*:Øö
B::ðVt:ØrÎ g:l:ð kNXkv:t:Î )t:it:m:Î
ev:ecC½ ev:jW:an:m:haes:n:a sPÙXö
B:Ø¢Ñ\v:atm:s:am:Òajy:s:ØK:ö y:T:ðÄm:Î. 307
So cut down your enemy, this sense of being the doer, with the great
sword of knowledge, caught like a splinter in the throat of someone
having a meal, and enjoy to your hearts content the joy of the
possession of your true nature. 307
t:t::ðhm:adðrÎ ev:en:v:ty:ü v:àe¶:ö
s:öty:Vt:rag:H p:rm:aT:ül:aB:at:Î
t:Ü\N:iö s:m:assv:atm:s:ØK:an:ØB:Üty:a
p:ÜN:aütm:n:a b:ÒÉeN: en:ev:üklp:H. 308
Stop the activity of the false selfidentification and so on, get rid
of desire by the attainment of the supreme Reality, and practice
silence in the experience of the joy of your true self, free from
fantasies, with your true nature fulfilled in God. 308
s:m:Ül:ká¶::ðep: m:han:hö p:Øn:rÎ
vy:Øll:ðeK:t:H sy:adÏ y:ed c:ðt:s:a x:N:m:Î
s:öj:ivy: ev:x:ðp:S:t:ö kr:ðet:
n:B:s:Î v:t:a )av:àe\: v:aerd:ð y:T:a. 309
Even when thoroughly eradicated, a great sense of doership can
revive again and create a hundred different distractions, if it is
once dwelt on again for a moment in the mind, like monsoon
rainclouds driven on by the wind. 309
en:g:àÊ S:*::ðrÎ Ahm::ðv:kaS:H
Vv:ec:n:Î n: dðy::ð ev:\:y:an:Øec:nt:y:a
s: Ov: s:öj:iv:n:hðt:ØrÎ Asy:
)x:iN:j:mb:irt:r:ðrÎ Ev:amb:Ø. 310
Overcoming the enemy of the false self, one should give it no
opportunity by dwelling on the senses again, because that is the way
it comes back to life, like water for a withered citrous tree. 310
dðhatm:n:a s:öesT:t: Ov: kam:i
ev:l:x:N:H kam:ey:t:a kT:ö sy:at:Î
At::ðT:üs:nD:an:p:rtv:m:Î Ov:
B:ðd)s:Vty:a B:v:b:nD:hðt:ØH. 311
He who is attached to the idea of himself as the body is desirous of
physical pleasure, but how could someone devoid of such an idea seek
physical pleasure? Hence separation from ones true good is the cause
of bondage to samsara since one is stuck in seeing things as
separate from oneself. 311
kay:ü)v:D:ün:adÏ b:ij:)v:àe¹H p:erdáSy:t:ð
kay:ün:aS:aºij:n:aS:s:Î t:sm:at:Î kay:üö en:r:ðD:y:ðt:Î. 312
A seed is seen to grow with the development of the necessary
conditions, while the failure of the conditions leads to the failure
of the seed. So one must remove these conditions. 312
v:as:n:av:àe¹t:H kay:üö kay:üv:à¹Ðy:a c: v:as:n:a
v:D:üt:ð s:v:üT:a p:Øös:H s:ös:ar:ð n: en:v:t:üt:ð. 313
The increase of desires leads to activity, and from the increase of
activity there is more desire. Thus a man changes in every way, and
samsara never comes to an end. 313
s:ös:arb:nD:ev:ecC¶y:òt:dÏ ¾y:ö )dhðdÏ y:et:H
v:as:n:av:àe¹rÎ Ot:aBy:aö ec:nt:y:a e#y:y:a b:ehH. 314
To break the bonds of samsara, the ascetic should burn away both of
these (desire and activity), since thinking about these and external
activity lead to the increase of desires. 314
t:aBy:aö )v:D:üm:an:a s:a s:Üt:ð s:ös:àet:m:Î A:tm:n:H
*:y:aN:aö c: x:y::ðp:ay:H s:v:aüv:sT:as:Ø s:v:üda. 315
s:v:ü*: s:v:üt:H s:v:üb:ÒÉm:a*:av:l::ðkn:òH
s:»av:v:as:n:adÏ A:µaüt:Î t:t:Î *:y:ö l:y:m:Î ASn:Øt:ð. 316
The increase of these two is the cause of ones samsara, and the
means to the destruction of these three is to see everything as
simply God everywhere, always and in all circumstances. By the
increase of desire for becoming the Truth, these three come to an
end. 315, 316
e#y:an:aS:ð B:v:ðc:Î ec:nt:an:aS::ðsm:adÏ v:as:n:ax:y:H
v:as:n:a)x:y::ð m::ðx:H s:a j:iv:nm:ØeVt:rÎ E\y:t:ð. 317
Through the stopping of activity there comes the stopping of
thinking, and then the cessation of desires. The cessation of
desires is liberation, and is what is known as hereandnow
liberation. 317
s:¾as:n:asPÝet:üev:j:àmB:N:ð s:et:
ÊÐ As::ò ev:l:in:apy:Î Ahm:aedv:as:n:a
Aet:)káÄapy:Î A,N:)B:ay:aö
ev:l:iy:t:ð s:aD:Ø y:T:a t:em:+a. 318
When the force of the desire for the Truth blossoms, selfish desires
wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the
light of dawn. 318
t:m:s:Î t:m:Hkay:üm:Î An:T:üj:al:ö
n: dáSy:t:ð s:ty:Î uedt:ð edn:ðS:ð
t:T:a¾y:an:ndrs:an:ØB:Üt::ò
n:òv:aest: b:nD::ð n: c: dÙHK:g:nD:H. 319
Darkness and the mass of evils produced by darkness no longer exist
when the sun has risen. Similarly, when one has tasted
undifferentiated bliss, no bondage or trace of suffering remains.
319
dáSy:ö )t:it:ö )ev:l:ap:y:n:Î s:n:Î
s:nm:a*:m:Î A:n:ndG:n:ö ev:B:av:y:n:Î
s:m:aeht:H s:n:Î b:ehrnt:rö v:a
kal:ö n:y:ðT:aH s:et: km:üb:nD:ð. 320
Transcending everything to do with the senses, cultivating the
blissful and only Truth, and at peace within and without this is
how one should pass ones time so long as any bonds of karma remain.
320
)m:ad:ð b:ÒÉen:Åay:aö n: kt:üvy:H kdac:n:
)m:ad:ð m:àty:ØrÎ Ety:Î A:h B:g:v:an:Î b:ÒÉN:H s:Øt:H. 321
One should never permit carelessness in ones adherence to God.
"Carelessness is death" (Mahabharata 5.42.43) says the Master
(Sanatkumara) who was of Brahmas son. 321
n: )m:adadÏ An:T::ðüny::ð jW:aen:n:H sv:sv:-p:t:H
t:t::ð m::ðhs:Î t:t::ðhöD:is:Î t:t::ð b:nD:s:Î t:t::ð vy:T:a. 322
There is no greater evil than carelessness about his own true nature
for a wise man. From this comes delusion, from this comes
misconceptions about oneself, from this comes bondage, from this
comes suffering. 322
ev:\:y:aeB:m:ØK:ö dáÄÏv:a ev:¾aös:m:Î Aep: ev:sm:àet:H
ev:x:ðp:y:et: D:id:ð\:òrÎ y::ð\:a j:arm:Î Ev: e)y:m:Î. 323
Forgetfulness afflicts even a wise man with harmful mental states
when it finds him welldisposed to the senses, like a woman does her
infatuated lover. 323
y:T:a p:káÄö S:òv:al:ö x:N:m:a*:ö n: et:Ået:
A:v:àN::ðet: t:T:a m:ay:a )ajW:ö v:aep: p:ra¨ÛK:m:Î. 324
Just as the algae cleared off water does not stay off even for a
moment, so illusion obscures the sight of even a wise man whose mind
is outwarddirected. 324
l:xy:cy:Øt:ö c:ðdÏ y:ed ec:¶:m:Î I\:dÏ
b:ehm:ØüK:ö s:n:Î en:p:t:ðt:Î t:t:s:Î t:t:H
)m:adt:H )cy:Øt:kñel:kndÙkH
s::ðp:an:p:¢Ñt::ò p:et:t::ð y:T:a t:T:a. 325
When the mind loses its direction towards its goal and becomes
outwardturned it runs from one thing to another, like a playball
carelessly dropped on the steps of some stairs. 325
ev:\:y:ð\v:Î A:ev:S:cc:ðt:H s:öklp:y:et: t:·ÛN:an:Î
s:my:kÏ s:öklp:n:at:Î kam:H kam:at:Î p:Øös:H )v:t:ün:m:Î. 326
A mind directed towards the senses dwells with imagination on their
qualities. From imagining finally comes desire, and from desire
comes the way a man directs his activity. 326
At:H )m:adan:Î n: p:r:ðest: m:àty:ØH
ev:v:ðekn::ð b:ÒÉev:dH s:m:aD::ò
s:m:aeht:H es:e¹m:Î up:òet: s:my:kÏ
s:m:aeht:atm:a B:v: s:av:D:an:H. 327
As a result, there is no death like carelessness in meditation to
the wise knower of God. The meditator achieves perfect fulfilment,
so carefully practice peace of mind. 327
t:t:H sv:-p:ev:B:ÒöS::ð ev:B:ÒÄs:Î t:Ø p:t:ty:Î AD:H
p:et:t:sy: ev:n:a n:aS:ö p:Øn:rÎ n:ar:ðh Ixy:t:ð. 328
From carelessness one turns aside from ones true nature, and he who
turns aside from it slips downwards. He who has thus fallen
invariably comes to disaster, but is not seen to rise again. 328
s:öklp:ö v:j:üy:ðt:Î t:sm:at:Î s:v:aün:T:üsy: karN:m:Î
j:iv:t::ð y:sy: kóv:ly:ö ev:dðhð s: c: kñv:l:H
y:t:Î ekeWc:t:Î p:Sy:t::ð B:ðdö B:y:ö b:ÒÜt:ð y:j:ØH Â:Øet:H. 329
So one should abandon the imagination which is the cause of all
ills. He has reached fulfilment who is completely dead while still
alive. The Yajur Veda (Taittiriya Upanishad 2.7) declares there is
still something to fear for anyone who still sees distinctions in
things. 329
y:da kda v:aep: ev:p:eÁ:dÏ O\:
b:ÒÉNy:Î An:nt:ðpy:Î AN:Øm:a*:B:ðdm:Î
p:Sy:ty:Î AT:am:Ø\y: B:y:ö t:dòv:
y:dÏ v:iex:t:ö eB:Àt:y:a )m:adat:Î. 330
Whenever a wise man sees the least distinction in the infinite God,
whatever he has carelessly perceived as a distinction then becomes a
source of fear for him. 330
Â:Øet:sm:àet:ny:ay:S:t:òrÎ en:e\:¹ð
dáSy:ð*: y:H sv:atm:m:et:ö kr:ðet:
up:òet: dÙHK::ðp:er dÙHK:j:at:ö
en:e\:¹kt:aü s: m:el:ml:Øc::ð y:T:a. 331
When, in spite of hundreds of testimonies to the contrary in the
Vedas and other scriptures, one identifies oneself with anything to
do with the senses, one experiences countless sorrows, doing
something prohibited like a thief. 331
s:ty:aeB:s:öD:an:rt::ð ev:m:ØVt::ð
m:h¶v:m:Î A:tm:iy:m:Î up:òet: en:ty:m:Î
em:Ty:aeB:s:nD:an:rt:s:Î t:Ø n:Sy:ðdÏ
dáÄö t:dÏ Ot:dÏ y:dÏ Ac::òrc::òry::ðH. 332
He who is devoted to meditating on the Truth attains the eternal
glory of his true nature, while he who delights in dwelling on the
unreal perishes. This can be seen even in the case of whether
someone is a thief or not. 332
y:et:rÎ As:dn:Øs:enD:ö b:nD:hðt:Øö ev:hay:
sv:y:m:Î Ay:m:Î Ahm:Î Asm:ity:Î A:tm:dá\®òv: et:Åðt:Î
s:ØK:y:et: n:n:Ø en:Åa b:ÒÉeN: sv:an:ØB:Üty:a
hret: p:rm:Î Aev:½akay:üdÙHK:ö )t:it:m:Î. 333
An ascetic should abandon dwelling on the unreal which is the cause
of bondage, and should fix his attention on himself in his knowledge
that "This is what I am". Establishment in God through selfawareness
leads to joy and finally removes the suffering caused by ignorance.
333
b:aÊan:Øs:enD:H p:erv:D:üy:ðt:Î Pl:ö
dÙv:aüs:n:am:Î Ov: t:t:s:Î t:t::ðeD:kam:Î
jW:atv:a ev:v:ðkóH p:erÆty: b:aÊö
sv:atm:an:Øs:enD:ö ev:dD:it: en:ty:m:Î. 334
Dwelling on externals increases the fruit of superfluous evil
desires for all sorts of things, so wisely recognising this fact,
one should abandon externals and cultivate attention to ones true
nature within. 334
b:aÊð en:,¹ð m:n:s:H )s:Àt:a
m:n:H)s:adð p:rm:atm:dS:ün:m:Î
t:esm:n:Î s:ØdáÄð B:v:b:nD:n:aS::ð
b:ehen:ür:ðD:H p:dv:i ev:m:ØVt:ðH. 335
When externals are abandoned there comes peace of mind. When the
mind is at peace there comes awareness of ones supreme self. When
that is fully experienced there comes the destruction of the bonds
of samsara, so abandonment of externals is the road to liberation.
335
kH p:eNRt:H s:n:Î s:ds:e¾v:ðki
Â:Øet:)m:aN:H p:rm:aT:üdS:iü
j:an:n:Î eh kÙy:aüdÏ As:t::ðv:l:mb:ö
sv:p:at:hðt::ðH eS:S:Øv:n:Î m:Øm:Øx:ØH. 336
What man, being learned, and aware of the distinction between real
and unreal, relying on the scriptures and seeking the supreme goal
of life, would knowingly, like a child, hanker after resting in the
unreal, the cause of his own downfall. 336
dðhaeds:ös:eVt:m:t::ð n: m:ØeVt:H
m:ØVt:sy: dðha½eB:m:ty:Î AB:av:H
s:Øpt:sy: n::ð j:ag:rN:ö n: j:ag:Òt:H
sv:pn:s:Î t:y::ðrÎ eB:Àg:ØN:aÂ:y:tv:at:Î. 337
There is no liberation for him who is deliberately attached to the
body and such things, while there is no selfidentification with such
things as the body for a liberated man. There is no being awake for
someone asleep, nor sleep for someone awake, for these two states
are by their very nature distinct. 337
Ant:b:üehH sv:ö esT:rj:¤m:ð\:Ø
jW:atv:atm:n:aD:art:y:a ev:l::ðVy:
ty:Vt:aeK:l::ðp:aeD:rÎ AK:NR-p:H
p:ÜN:aütm:n:a y:H esT:t: O\: m:ØVt:H. 338
He who knows himself within and without, and recognises himself as
the underlying support in all things moving and unmoving, remaining
indivisible, fulfilled in himself by abandoning all that is not
himself he is liberated. 338
s:v:aütm:n:a b:nD:ev:m:ØeVt:hðt:ØH
s:v:aütm:B:av:an:Î n: p:r:ðest: keÁ:t:Î
dáSy:ag:Òhð s:ty:Î up:p:½t:ðs::ò
s:v:aütm:B:av::ðsy: s:datm:en:Åy:a. 339
The means of liberation from bondage is through the one self in
everything, and there is nothing higher than this one self in
everything. When one does not cling to anything to do with the
senses, one achieves these things, and being the one self in
everything depends on resting in ones true self. 339
dáSy:sy:ag:ÒhN:ö kT:ö n:Ø G:Xt:ð dðhatm:n:a et:Åt::ð
b:aÊaT:aün:ØB:v:)s:Vt:m:n:s:s:Î t:¶:et#y:aö kÙv:üt:H
s:öny:st:aeK:l:D:m:ükm:üev:\:y:òrÎ en:ty:atm:en:Åap:ròH
t:¶v:jW:òH krN:iy:m:Î A:tm:en: s:dan:ndðcCÙeB:rÎ y:tn:t:H. 340
How is not clinging to the senses possible when ones basis is
selfidentification with the body, and ones mind is attached to
enjoying external pleasures, and on doing whatever is necessary to
do so? But it can be achieved within themselves by those who have
abandoned all objects of rules and observances, who are always
resting in selfawareness, who know the Truth and energetically seek
the bliss of Reality. 340
s:v:aütm:es:¹y:ð eB:x::ðH kát:Â:v:N:km:üN:H
s:m:aeD:ö ev:dD:aty:Î O\:a S:ant::ð dant: Eet: Â:Øet:H. 341
Scripture prescribes meditation for realisation of the self in
everything to the ascetic who has fulfilled the requirement of
listening to scripture, saying "At peace and selfcontrolled" and so
on (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.23). 341
A:-ZS:Vt:ðrÎ Ahm::ðev:n:aS:H
kt:Øün:Î n: S:Vy: s:hs:aep: p:eNRt:òH
y:ð en:ev:üklp:aKy:s:m:aeD:en:Á:l:aH
t:an:Î Ant:ran:nt:B:v:a eh v:as:n:aH. 342
Even wise men cannot get rid of the sense of doership all of a
sudden when it has grown strong, but those who are unwavering in
socalled imageless samadhi can, whose desire for this has been
developed over countless lives. 342
Ahöb:عÐy:òv: m::ðehny:a y::ðj:ey:tv:av:àt:ðrÎ b:l:at:Î
ev:x:ðp:S:eVt:H p:Ø,\:ö ev:x:ðp:y:et: t:·ÛN:òH. 343
The outwardturning power of the mind binds a man to the sense of
doership by its veiling effect, and confuses him by the attributes
of that power. 343
ev:x:ðp:S:eVt:ev:j:y::ð ev:\:m::ð ev:D:at:Øö
en:HS:ð\:m:Î A:v:rN:S:eVt:en:v:à¶y:B:av:ð
dágdáSy:y::ðH sPÙXp:y::ðj:l:v:dÏ ev:B:ag:ð
n:Sy:ðt:Î t:dÏ A:v:rN:m:Î A:tm:en: c: sv:B:av:at:Î
en:Hs:öS:y:ðn: B:v:et: )et:b:nD:S:Üny::ð
ev:x:ðp:N:ö n: eh t:da y:ed c:ðn:Î m:à\:aT:ðü. 344
To overcome the outwardturning power of the mind is hard to
accomplish without completely eliminating the veiling effect, but
the covering over ones inner self can be removed by discriminating
between seer and objects, like between milk and water. Absence of an
barrier is finally unquestionable when there is no longer any
distraction caused by illusory objects. 344
s:my:g:Î ev:v:ðkH sPÙXb::ðD:j:ny::ð
ev:B:jy: dágdáSy:p:daT:üt:¶v:m:Î
eCn:e¶: m:ay:akát:m::ðhb:nD:ö
y:sm:adÏ ev:m:ØVt:s:Î t:Ø p:Øn:rÎ n: s:ös:àet:H. 345
Perfect discrimination, born of direct experience establishing the
truth of the distinction between seer and objects, severs the bonds
of delusion produced by Maya (the creative power, which makes things
appear to exist), and as a result the liberated person is no longer
subject to samsara. 345
p:rav:ròktv:ev:v:ðkv:eÈH
dhty:Î Aev:½ag:hn:ö ÊÐ AS:ð\:m:Î
ekö sy:at:Î p:Øn:H s:ös:rN:sy: b:ij:ö
A¾òt:B:av:ö s:m:Øp:ðy:Ø\::ðsy:. 346
The fire of the knowledge of the oneness of above and below burns up
completely the tangled forest of ignorance. What seed of samsara
could there still be for such a person who has achieved nonduality?
346
A:v:rN:sy: en:v:àe¶:rÎ B:v:et: eh s:my:kÏ p:daT:üdS:ün:t:H
em:Ty:ajW:an:ev:n:aS:s:Î t:e¾x:ðp:j:en:t:dÙHK:en:v:àe¶:H. 347
The veiling effect only disappears with full experience of Reality,
and the elimination of false knowledge leads to the end of the
suffering caused by that distraction. 347
Ot:et*:t:y:ö dáÄö s:my:g:Î rjj:Øsv:-p:ev:jW:an:at:Î
t:sm:adÏ v:st:Ø s:t:¶v:ö jW:at:vy:ö b:nD:m:ØVt:y:ð ev:dÙ\:a. 348
These three (the removal of veiling effect, false knowlege and
suffering) are clearly apparent in the case of recognising the true
nature of the rope, so a wise man should get to know the truth about
the underlying reality if he wants to be liberated from his bonds.
348
Ay::ðegn:y::ðg:adÏ Ev: s:ts:m:nv:y:an:Î
m:a*:aed-p:ðN: ev:j:àmB:t:ð D:iH
t:tkay:üm:Î Ot:dÏ e¾t:y:ö y:t::ð m:à\:a
dáÄö B:Òm:sv:pn:m:n::ðrT:ð\:Ø. 349
t:t::ð ev:karaH )kát:ðrÎ Ahöm:ØK:a
dðhav:s:an:a ev:\:y:aS:Î c: s:v:ðü
x:N:ðny:T:aB:aev:t:y:a Êm:i\:am:Î
As:¶v:m:Î A:tm:a t:Ø kdaep: n:any:T:a. 350
Like fire in conjunction with iron, the mind manifests itself as
knower and objects by dependence on something real, but as the
duality that causes is seen to be unreal in the case of delusions,
dreams and fantasies, so the products of natural causation, from the
idea of doership down to the body itself and all its senses, are
also unreal in view of the way they are changing every moment, while
ones true nature itself never changes. 349, 350
en:ty:a¾y:aK:NRec:dðk-p::ð
b:عÐy:aeds:ax:i s:ds:e¾l:x:N:H
Ahöp:d)ty:y:l:ex:t:aT:üH
)ty:kÏ s:dan:ndG:n:H p:ratm:a. 351
The supreme self is the internal reality of Truth and Bliss,
eternally indivisible and pure consciousness, the witness of the
intellect and the other faculties, distinct from being or notbeing,
the reality implied by the word "I". 351
EtT:ö ev:p:eÁ:t:Î s:ds:e¾B:jy:
en:eÁ:ty: t:¶v:ö en:j:b::ðD:dá\®a
jW:atv:a sv:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î AK:NRb::ðD:ö
t:ðBy::ð ev:m:ØVt:H sv:y:m:Î Ov: S:amy:et:. 352
Distinguishing the real from the unreal in this way by means of his
inborn capacity of understanding, and liberated from these bonds, a
wise man attains peace by recognising his own true nature as
undifferentiated awareness. 352
AjW:an:Ædy:g:ÒnT:ðrÎ en:HS:ð\:ev:l:y:s:Î t:da
s:m:aeD:n:aev:klp:ðn: y:da¾òt:atm:dS:ün:m:Î. 353
The knot of ignorance in the heart is finally removed when one comes
to see ones own true nondual nature by means of imageless samadhi.
353
tv:m:hem:dm:Î Et:iy:ö klp:n:a b:Øe¹d:ð\:at:Î
)B:v:et: p:rm:atm:ny:Î A¾y:ð en:ev:üS:ð\:ð
)ev:l:s:et: s:m:aD:av:Î Asy: s:v::ðü ev:klp::ð
ev:l:y:n:m:Î up:g:cCðdÏ v:st:Øt:¶v:av:D:àty:a. 354
Assumptions of "you", "me", "it" occur in the nondual,
undifferentiated supreme self because of a failure in the
understanding, but all a mans false assumptions disappear in samadhi
and are completely destroyed by the realisation of the truth of the
underlying reality. 354
S:ant::ð dant:H p:rm:Øp:rt:H x:aent:y:ØVt:H s:m:aeD:ö
kÙv:ün:Î en:ty:ö kl:y:et: y:et:H sv:sy: s:v:aütm:B:av:m:Î
t:ðn:aev:½aet:em:rj:en:t:an:Î s:aD:Ø dgDv:a ev:klp:an:Î
b:ÒÉakáty:a en:v:s:et: s:ØK:ö en:e\#y::ð en:ev:üklp:H. 355
An ascetic who is peaceful, disciplined, fully withdrawn,
longsuffering and meditative always cultivates the presence of the
self of everything in himself. Eradicating in this way the false
assumptions created by the distorting vision of ignorance, he lives
happily in God free from action and free from imaginations. 355
s:m:aeht:a y:ð )ev:l:apy: b:aÊö
Â::ð*:aed c:ðt:H sv:m:Î Ahö ec:datm:en:
t: Ov: m:ØVt:a B:v:p:aS:b:nD:òH
n:any:ð t:Ø p:ar:ðxy:kT:aeB:D:aey:n:H. 356
Only those who have achieved samadhi and who have withdrawn the
external senses, the mind and their sense of doership into their
true nature as consciousness are free from being trapped in the
snare of samsara, not those who just repeat the statements of
others. 356
up:aeD:B:ðdat:Î sv:y:m:Î Ov: eB:½t:ð
c::ðp:aDy:p::ðhð sv:y:m:Î Ov: kñv:l:H
t:sm:adÏ up:aD:ðrÎ ev:l:y:ay: ev:¾an:Î
v:s:ðt:Î s:daklp:s:m:aeD:en:Åy:a. 357
Because of the diversity of the things he identifies himself with, a
man tends to see himself as complex, but with the removal of the
identification, he is himself again and perfect as he is. For this
reason a wise man should get rid of selfidentifications and always
cultivate imageless samadhi. 357
s:et: s:Vt::ð n:r:ð y:aet: s:»av:ö ÊÐ Oken:Åy:a
kiXk:ð B:Òm:rö Dy:ay:n:Î B:Òm:rtv:ay: klp:t:ð. 358
Adhering to the Real a man comes to share in the nature of that
Reality by his onepointed concentration on it, in the same way that
a grub is able to become a wasp by concentration on a wasp. 358
e#y:ant:ras:eVt:m:Î Ap:asy: kiXk:ð
Dy:ay:ÀÎ Ael:tv:ö ÊÐ Ael:B:av:m:Î ?cCet:
t:T:òv: y::ðg:i p:rm:atm:t:¶v:ö
Dy:atv:a s:m:ay:aet: t:dðken:Åy:a. 359
A grub achieves wasphood by abandoning attachment to other
activities and concentrating on the nature of being a wasp. In the
same way an ascetic meditates on the reality of the supreme self and
achieves it through his onepointed concentration on it. 359
At:iv: s:Üxm:ö p:rm:atm:t:¶v:ö
n: sT:Ül:dá\®a )et:p:¶:Øm:Î Ahüet:
s:m:aeD:n:aty:nt:s:Øs:Üxm:v:àty:a
jW:at:vy:m:Î A:y:òürÎ Aet:S:عb:Øe¹eB:H. 360
The reality of the supreme self is extremely subtle and is not
capable of being experienced by those of coarse vision, but it can
be known by those worthy of it by reason of their very pure
understanding by means of a mind made extremely subtle by
meditation. 360
y:T:a s:Øv:N:üö p:ØXp:akS::ðeD:t:ö
ty:Vtv:a m:l:ö sv:atm:g:ØN:ö s:m:àcCet:
t:T:a m:n:H s:¶v:rj:st:m::ðm:l:ö
Dy:an:ðn: s:nty:jy: s:m:ðet: t:¶v:m:Î. 361
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its
own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the
attributes of delusion, passion and purity through meditation and
attains Reality. 361
en:rnt:raBy:as:v:S:at:Î t:edtT:ö
p:Vv:ö m:n::ð b:ÒÉeN: l:iy:t:ð y:da
t:da s:m:aeD:H s:ev:klp:v:ej:üt:H
sv:t::ð¾y:an:ndrs:an:ØB:av:kH. 362
When by the effect of constant meditation the purified mind becomes
one with God, then samadhi, now freed from images, experiences in
itself the state of nondual bliss. 362
s:m:aeD:n:an:ðn: s:m:st:v:as:n:a
g:ÒnT:ðrÎ ev:n:aS::ðeK:l:km:ün:aS:H
Ant:b:üehH s:v:üt: Ov: s:v:üda
sv:-p:ev:sPÝet:ürÎ Ay:tn:t:H sy:at:Î. 363
The destruction of the bonds of all desires through this samadhi is
the destruction of all karma, and there follows the manifestation of
ones true nature without effort, inside, outside, everywhere and
always. 363
Â:Øt:ðH S:t:g:ØN:ö ev:½an:Î m:n:n:ö m:n:n:adÏ Aep:
en:edDy:as:ö l:x:g:ØN:m:Î An:nt:ö en:ev:üklp:km:Î. 364
Thought should be considered a hundred times better than hearing,
and meditation is thousands of times better than thought, while
imageless samadhi is infinite in its effect. 364
en:ev:üklp:ks:m:aeD:n:a sPÙXö
b:ÒÉt:¶v:m:Î Av:g:my:t:ð D:ÒØv:m:Î
n:any:T:a c:l:t:y:a m:n::ðg:t:ðH
)ty:y:ant:rev:em:eÂ:t:ö B:v:ðt:Î. 365
The experience of the reality of God becomes permanent though
imageless samadhi, but not otherwise as it is mixed with other
things by the restlessness of the mind. 365
At:H s:m:aD:tsv: y:t:ðendÓy:H s:n:Î
en:rnt:rö S:ant:m:n:aH )t:iec:
ev:Dv:ös:y: Dv:ant:m:Î An:a½ev:½y:a
kát:ö s:dðktv:ev:l::ðkn:ðn:. 366
So, established in meditation, with the senses controlled, the mind
calmed and continually turned inwards, destroy the darkness of
beginningless ignorance by recognising the oneness of Reality. 366
y::ðg:sy: )T:m:¾arö v:ae§r:ðD::ðp:erg:ÒhH
en:raS:a c: en:riha c: en:ty:m:Î Okant:S:il:t:a. 367
The primary door to union with God is cutting off talking, not
accepting possessions, freedom from expectation, dispassion and a
secluded manner of life. 367
Okant:esT:et:rÎ EendÓy::ðp:rm:N:ð hðt:ØrÎ dm:S:Î c:ðt:s:H
s:ör:ðD:ð krN:ö S:m:ðn: ev:l:y:ö y:ay:adÏ Ahöv:as:n:a
t:ðn:an:ndrs:an:ØB:Üet:rÎ Ac:l:a b:ÒaÉi s:da y::ðeg:n:H
t:sm:ac:Î ec:¶:en:r:ðD: Ov: s:t:t:ö kay:üH )y:tn::ð m:Øn:ðH. 368
Living in seclusion is the cause of control of the senses, restraint
of the mind leads to inner stillness and tranquillity leads to
mastery of selfcentred desire. From that comes the ascetics
continual experience of the unbroken bliss of God. So the wise man
should always strive for the cessation of thought. 368
v:ac:ö en:y:cCatm:en: t:ö en:y:cC
b:ع:ò eD:y:ö y:cC c: b:Øe¹s:aex:eN:
t:ö c:aep: p:ÜN:aütm:en: en:ev:üklp:ð
ev:l:apy: S:aent:ö p:rm:aö B:j:sv:. 369
Restrain speech within. Restrain the mind in the understanding and
restrain the understanding in the consciousness that observes the
understanding. Restrain that in the perfect and imageless self, and
enjoy supreme peace. 369
dðh)aN:ðendÓy:m:n::ðb:عÐy:aedeB:rÎ up:aeD:eB:H
y:òrÎ y:òrÎ v:à¶:ðH s:m:ay::ðg:s:Î t:¶:»av::ðsy: y::ðeg:n:H. 370
Body, functions, senses, mind, understanding and so on whichever of
these adjuncts the minds activity is connected with, that becomes
the ascetics identity for the time. 370
t:eÀv:à¶y:a m:Øn:ðH s:my:kÏ s:v::ðüp:rm:N:ö s:ØK:m:Î
s:ödáSy:t:ð s:dan:ndrs:an:ØB:v:ev:pl:v:H. 371
When this process is stopped, the wise man knows the perfect joy of
the letting go of everything, and experiences the attainment of the
overwhelming bliss of Reality. 371
Ant:sty:ag::ð b:ehsty:ag::ð ev:rVt:sy:òv: y:Øjy:t:ð
ty:j:ty:Î Ant:b:üehHs:¤ö ev:rVt:s:Î t:Ø m:Øm:Øx:y:a. 372
Internal renunciation and external renunciation it is the
dispassionate man who is capable of these. The dispassionate man
abandons fetters internal and external because of his yearning for
liberation. 372
b:ehs:Î t:Ø ev:\:y:òH s:¤ö t:T:ant:rhm:aedeB:H
ev:rVt: Ov: S:Vn::ðet: ty:Vt:Øö b:ÒÉeN: en:eÅt:H. 373
The dispassionate man, established in God, is indeed capable of
abandoning the external bond of the senses and the internal one of
selfishness and so on. 373
v:òragy:b::ðD::ò p:Ø,\:sy: p:ex:v:t:Î
p:x::ò ev:j:an:ieh ev:c:x:N: tv:m:Î
ev:m:ØeVt:s::òD:ag:Òl:t:aeD:r:ðhN:ö
t:aBy:aö ev:n:a n:any:t:rðN: es:Dy:et:. 374
As a discriminating person realise that dispassion and understanding
are like a birds wings for a man. Without them both he cannot reach
the nectar of liberation growing on top of a creeper. 374
Aty:nt:v:òragy:v:t:H s:m:aeD:H
s:m:aeht:sy:òv: dáZ)b::ðD:H
)b:عt:¶v:sy: eh b:nD:m:ØeVt:H
m:ØVt:atm:n::ð en:ty:s:ØK:an:ØB:Üet:H. 375
The extremely dispassionate man achieves samadhi. A person in
samadhi experiences steady enlightenment. He who is enlightened to
the Truth achieves liberation from bondage, and he who is truly
liberated experiences eternal joy. 375
v:òragy:an:Î n: p:rö s:ØK:sy: j:n:kö p:Sy:aem: v:Sy:atm:n:H
t:c:Î c:ðc:Î CÙ¹t:ratm:b::ðD:s:eht:ö sv:arajy:s:am:Òajy:D:ØkÏ
Ot:dÏ ¾arm:Î Aj:+m:ØeVt:y:Øv:t:ðrÎ y:sm:at:Î tv:m:Î Asm:at:Î p:rö
s:v:ü*:asp:àhy:a s:datm:en: s:da )jW:aö kÙ, Â:ðy:s:ð. 376
I know of no higher source of happiness for a selfcontrolled man
than dispassion, and when allied to thoroughly pure selfknowledge it
leads to the sovereign state of selfmastery. Since this is the gate
to the unfading maiden of liberation, always and with all eagerness
develop this supreme wisdom within yourself in happiness. 376
A:S:aö eCen¹ ev:\::ðp:m:ð\:Ø ev:\:y:ð\v:Î O\:òv: m:àty::ðH káet:s:Î
ty:Vtv:a j:aet:kÙl:aÂ:m:ð\v:Î AeB:m:et:ö m:ØWc:aet:dÝrat:Î e#y:aH
dðhadav:Î As:et: ty:j:atm:eD:\:N:aö )jW:aö kÙ,\v:atm:en:
tv:ö dÓÄasy:Î Am:n::ðes: en:¾üy:p:rö b:ÒÉaes: y:¾st:Øt:H. 377
Cut off desire for the poisonlike senses, for these are
deathdealing. Get rid of pride in birth, family and state of life,
and throw achievements far away. Drop such unreal things as the body
into the sacrificial bowl of your true self, and develop wisdom
within. You are the Witness. You are beyond the thinking mind. You
are truly God, nondual and supreme. 377
l:xy:ð b:ÒÉeN: m:an:s:ö dáZt:rö s:ösT:apy: b:aÊðendÓy:ö
sv:sT:an:ð ev:en:v:ðSy: en:Á:l:t:n:ØS:Î c::ðp:ðxy: dðhesT:et:m:Î
b:ÒÉatm:òVy:m:Î up:ðty: t:nm:y:t:y:a c:aK:NRv:à¶y:aen:S:ö
b:ÒÉan:ndrs:ö ep:b:atm:en: m:Øda S:Üny:òH ekm:Î Any:òrÎ B:àS:m:Î. 378
Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in
their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a
matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining
continually intent on identifying with its nature, and joyfully
drink the bliss of God within, for what use is there in other, empty
things? 378
An:atm:ec:nt:n:ö ty:Vtv:a kSm:l:ö dÙHK:karN:m:Î
ec:nt:y:atm:an:m:Î A:n:nd-p:ö y:nm:ØeVt:karN:m:Î. 379
Stop thinking about anything which is not your true self, for that
is degrading and productive of pain, and instead think about your
true nature, which is bliss itself and productive of liberation. 379
O\: sv:y:öjy::ðet:rÎ AS:ð\:s:ax:i
ev:jW:an:k:ðS::ð ev:l:s:ty:Î Aj:+m:Î
l:xy:ö ev:D:ay:òn:m:Î As:e¾l:x:N:m:Î
AK:NRv:à¶y:atm:t:y:an:ØB:av:y:. 380
This treasure of consciousness shines unfading with its own light as
the witness of everything. Meditate continually on it, making this
your aim, distinct as it is from the unreal. 380
Ot:m:Î AcCiÀy:a v:à¶y:a )ty:y:ant:rS:Üny:y:a
ull:ðK:y:n:Î ev:j:an:iy:at:Î sv:sv:-p:t:y:a sPÙXm:Î. 381
This one should be aware of with unbroken application, continually
turning to it with a mind empty of everything else, knowing it to be
ones own true nature. 381
A*:atm:tv:ö dáZikÙv:üÀÎ Ahm:aed\:Ø s:öty:j:n:Î
udas:in:t:y:a t:ð\:Ø et:Åðt:Î sPÙXG:Xaedv:t:Î. 382
This one should identify with firmly, abandoning the sense of
doership and so on, remaining indifferent to them, as one is to
things like a cracked jar. 382
ev:S:عm:Î Ant:HkrN:ö sv:-p:ð
en:v:ðSy: s:aex:N:Î y:v:b::ðD:m:a*:ð
S:n:òH S:n:òrÎ en:Á:l:t:am:Î up:an:y:n:Î
p:ÜN:üö sv:m:Î Ov:an:Øev:l::ðky:ðt:Î t:t:H. 383
Turning ones purified awareness within on the witness as pure
consciousness, one should gradually bring it to stillness and then
become aware of the perfection of ones true nature. 383
dðhðendÓy:)aN:m:n::ðhm:aedeB:H
sv:ajW:an:Vl:àpt:òrÎ AeK:l:òrÎ up:aeD:eB:H
ev:m:ØVt:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î AK:NR-p:ö
p:ÜN:üö m:hakaS:m:Î Ev:av:l::ðky:ðt:Î. 384
One should become aware of oneself, indivisible and perfect like
Space itself, when free from identification with such things as ones
body, senses, functions, mind and sense of doership, which are all
the products of ones own ignorance. 384
G:Xkl:S:kÙs:Ül:s:Üec:m:ØKy:òH
g:g:n:m:Øp:aeD:S:t:òrÎ ev:m:ØVt:m:Î Okm:Î
B:v:et: n: ev:ev:D:ö t:T:òv: S:عö
p:rm:Î Ahm:aedev:m:ØVt:m:Î Okm:Î Ov:. 385
Space when freed from the hundreds of additional objects like pots
and pans, receptacles and needles is one, and in the same way the
supreme Reality becomes no longer multiple but one and pure when
freed from the sense of doership and so on. 385
b:ÒÉaedst:mb:p:y:ünt:a m:à\:am:a*:a up:aD:y:H
t:t:H p:ÜN:üö sv:m:Î A:tm:an:ö p:Sy:ðdÏ Okatm:n:a esT:t:m:Î. 386
All additional objects from Brahma to the last clump of grass are
simply unreal, so one should be aware of ones own perfect true
nature abiding alone and by itself. 386
y:*: B:Òanty:a kelp:t:ö t:dÏ ev:v:ðkñ
t:¶:nm:a*:ö n:òv: t:sm:adÏ ev:eB:Àm:Î
B:Òant:ðrÎ n:aS:ð B:aet: dáÄaeh t:¶v:ö
rjj:Øs:Î t:¾dÏ ev:Ã:m:Î A:tm:sv:-p:m:Î. 387
When rightly seen, what had been mistaken in error for something
else is only what it always was and not something different. When
the mistaken perception is removed the reality of the rope is seen
for what it is, and the same is true for the way everything is
really oneself. 387
sv:y:ö b:ÒÉa sv:y:ö ev:\N:ØH sv:y:m:Î EndÓH sv:y:ö eS:v:H
sv:y:ö ev:Ã:m:Î Edö s:v:üö sv:sm:adÏ Any:n:Î n: ekWc:n:. 388
One is oneself Brahma, one is Vishnu, one is Indra, one is Shiva,
and one is oneself all this. Nothing else exists except oneself. 388
Ant:H sv:y:ö c:aep: b:ehH sv:y:ö c:
sv:y:ö p:Ørst:at:Î sv:y:m:Î Ov: p:Á:at:Î
sv:y:ö ÊÐ A:v:acy:aö sv:y:m:Î Apy:Î udicy:aö
t:T::ðp:erÄat:Î sv:y:m:Î Apy:Î AD:st:at:Î. 389
Oneself is what is within, oneself is without, oneself is in front
and oneself is behind. Oneself is to the south, oneself is to the
north, and oneself is also above and below. 389
t:r¤Pñn:B:Òm:b:غÚdaed
s:v:üö sv:-p:ðN: j:l:ö y:T:a t:T:a
ec:dÏ Ov: dðha½hm:nt:m:Î Ot:t:Î
s:v:üö ec:dÏ Ov:òkrs:ö ev:S:عm:Î. 390
Just as waves, foam, whirlpool and bubbles are all in reality just
water, so consciousness is all this from the body to the sense of
doership. Everything is just the one pure consciousness. 390
s:dÏ Ov:ðdö s:v:üö j:g:dÏ Av:g:t:ö v:a¨n:s:y::ðH
s:t::ðny:n:Î n:asty:Î Ov: )káet:p:rs:iemn: esT:t:v:t:H
p:àT:kÏ ekö m:àtsn:ay:aH kl:S:G:XkÙmB:a½v:g:t:ö
v:dty:Î O\: B:Òant:s:Î tv:m:hem:et: m:ay:am:edry:a. 391
This whole world known to speech and mind is really the supreme
Reality. Nothing else exists but the Reality situated beyond the
limits of the natural world. Are pots, jars, tubs and so on
different from clay? It is the man confused by the wine of Maya that
talks of "you" and "me". 391
e#y:as:m:eB:harðN: y:*: n:any:dÏ Eet: Â:Øet:H
b:Òv:iet: ¾òt:raehty:ö em:Ty:aDy:as:en:v:à¶:y:ð. 392
The scripture talks of the absence of duality in the expression
"where there is nothing else" (Chandogya Upanishad 7.24.1) with
several verbs to remove any idea of false attribution. 392
A:kaS:v:n:Î en:m:ül:en:ev:üklp:ö
en:Hs:im:en:Hsp:ndn:en:ev:ükarm:Î
Ant:b:üehHS:Üny:m:Î An:ny:m:Î A¾y:ö
sv:y:ö p:rö b:ÒÉ ekm:Î Aest: b::ðDy:m:Î. 393
What else is there to know but ones true supreme nature, God
himself, like space pure, imageless, unmoving, unchanging, free of
within or without, without a second and nondual. 393
v:Vt:vy:ö ekm:Ø ev:½t:ð*: b:hÚD:a b:ÒÉòv: j:iv:H sv:y:ö
b:ÒÉòt:j:Î j:g:dÏ A:t:t:ö n:Ø s:kl:ö b:ÒÉae¾t:iy:ö Â:Øet:H
b:ÒÉòv:ahm:Î Eet: )b:عm:t:y:H s:öty:Vt:b:aÊaH sPÙXö
b:ÒÉiB:Üy: v:s:ent: s:nt:t:ec:dan:ndatm:n:òt:dÏ D:ÒØv:m:Î. 394
What more is to be said here? The individual is himself God.
Scripture declares that this whole extended world is the indivisible
God. Those who have been illuminated by the thought "I am God",
themselves live steadfastly as God, abandoning external objects, as
the eternal consciousness and bliss. 394
j:eh m:l:m:y:k:ðS:ðhöeD:y::ðtT:aep:t:aS:aö
)s:B:m:Î Aen:l:klp:ð el:¤dðhðep: p:Á:at:Î
en:g:m:g:edt:kiet:üö en:ty:m:Î A:n:ndm:Üet:üö
sv:y:m:Î Eet: p:erc:iy: b:ÒÉ-p:ðN: et:Å. 395
Destroy the desires arising from opinions about yourself in this
impure body, and even more so those of the subtle mental level, and
remain as yourself, the God within, the eternal body of bliss,
celebrated by the scriptures. 395
S:v:akarö y:av:dÏ B:j:et: m:n:Øj:s:Î t:av:dÏ AS:Øec:H
p:rðBy:H sy:at:Î Vl:ðS::ð j:n:n:m:rN:vy:aeD:en:l:y:H
y:dÏ A:tm:an:ö S:عö kl:y:et: eS:v:akarm:Î Ac:l:m:Î
t:da t:ðBy::ð m:ØVt::ð B:v:et: eh t:dÏ A:h Â:Øet:rÎ Aep:. 396
So long as a man is concerned about the corpselike body, he is
impure and suffers from his enemies in the shape of birth, death and
sickness. When however he thinks of himself as pure godlike and
immovable, then he is freed from those enemies, as the scriptures
proclaim. 396
sv:atm:ny:Î A:r:ðep:t:aS:ð\:aB:as:v:st:Ø en:ras:t:H
sv:y:m:Î Ov: p:rö b:ÒÉ p:ÜN:üm:¾y:m:e#y:m:Î. 397
Getting rid of all apparent realities within oneself, one is oneself
the supreme God, perfect, nondual and actionless. 397
s:m:aeht:ay:aö s:et: ec:¶:v:à¶::ò
p:ratm:en: b:ÒÉeN: en:ev:üklp:ð
n: dáSy:t:ð keÁ:dÏ Ay:ö ev:klp:H
)j:lp:m:a*:H p:ereS:\y:t:ð y:t:H. 398
When the mind waves are put to rest in ones true nature, the
imageless God, then this false assumption exists no longer, but is
recognised as just empty talk. 398
As:tklp::ð ev:klp::ðy:ö ev:Ã:m:Î Ety:Î Okv:st:Øen:
en:ev:ükarð en:rakarð en:ev:üS:ð\:ð eB:da kÙt:H. 399
What we call "All this" is a false idea and mistaken assumption of
in the one Reality. How can there be distinctions in something which
is changeless, formless and without characteristics? 399
dÓÄÙdS:ün:dáSy:aedB:av:S:Üny:òkv:st:Øen:
en:ev:ükarð en:rakarð en:ev:üS:ð\:ð eB:da kÙt:H. 400
Seer, seeing and seen and so on have no existence in the one
Reality. How can there be distinctions in something which is
changeless, formless and without characteristics? 400
klp:aN:üv: Ev:aty:nt:p:erp:ÜN:òükv:st:Øen:
en:ev:ükarð en:rakarð en:ev:üS:ð\:ð eB:da kÙt:H. 401
In the one Reality which is completely perfect like the primal
ocean, how can there be distinctions in something which is
changeless, formless and without characteristics? 401
t:ðj:s:iv: t:m::ð y:*: )l:in:ö B:Òaent:karN:m:Î
Ae¾t:iy:ð p:rð t:¶v:ð en:ev:üS:ð\:ð eB:da kÙt:H. 402
When the cause of error has been annihilated like darkness in light,
how can there be distinctions in something which is changeless,
formless and without characteristics? 402
Okatm:kñ p:rð t:¶v:ð B:ðdv:at:aü kT:ö v:s:ðt:Î
s:Ø\:Øpt::ò s:ØK:m:a*:ay:aö B:ðdH kñn:av:l::ðekt:H. 403
How can there be distinctions in a supreme reality which is by
nature one? Who has noticed any distinctions in the pure joy of deep
sleep? 403
n: ÊÐ Aest: ev:Ã:ö p:rt:¶v:b::ðD:at:Î
s:datm:en: b:ÒÉeN: en:ev:üklp:ð
kal:*:y:ð n:apy:Î AehrÎ Iex:t::ð g:ØN:ð
n: ÊÐ Amb:Øeb:ndÙrÎ m:àg:t:àe\N:kay:am:Î. 404
After realisation of the supreme Truth, all this no longer exists in
ones true nature of the imageless God. The snake is not to be found
in time past, present or future, and not a drop of water is to be
found in a mirage. 404
m:ay:am:a*:m:Î Edö ¾òt:m:Î A¾òt:ö p:rm:aT:üt:H
Eet: b:ÒÜt:ð Â:Øet:H s:ax:at:Î s:Ø\:Øpt:av:Î An:ØB:Üy:t:ð. 405
Scripture declares that this dualism is Mayacreated and actually
nondual in the final analysis. It is experienced for oneself in deep
sleep. 405
An:ny:tv:m:Î AeD:Åan:adar:ðpy:Î Asy: en:riex:t:m:Î
p:eNRt:ò rjj:Øs:p:aüd:ò ev:klp::ð B:Òaent:j:iv:n:H. 406
The identity of a projection with its underlying reality is
recognised by the wise in the case of the rope and the snake, etc.
The false assumption arises from a mistake. 406
ec:¶:m:Ül::ð ev:klp::ðy:ö ec:¶:aB:av:ð n: kÁ:n:
At:S:Î ec:¶:ö s:m:aD:ðeh )ty:g:ÒÜp:ð p:ratm:en:. 407
This falsely imagined reality depends on thought, and in the absence
of thought it no longer exists, so put thought to rest in samadhi in
the inner reality of ones higher nature. 407
ekm:Î Aep: s:t:t:b::ðD:ö kñv:l:an:nd-p:ö
en:,p:m:m:Î Aet:v:ðl:ö en:ty:m:ØVt:ö en:rihm:Î
en:rv:eD:g:g:n:aB:ö en:\kl:ö en:ev:üklp:ö
Æed kl:y:et: ev:¾an:Î b:ÒÉ p:ÜN:üö s:m:aD::ò. 408
The wise man experiences the perfection of God in his heart in
samadhi as something which is eternal consciousness, complete bliss,
incomparable, transcendent, ever free, free from effort, and like
infinite space indivisible and unimaginable. 408
)káet:ev:káet:S:Üny:ö B:av:n:at:it:B:av:ö
s:m:rs:m:Î As:m:an:ö m:an:s:mb:nD:dÝrm:Î
en:g:m:v:c:n:es:¹ö en:ty:m:Î Asm:t)es:¹ö
Æed kl:y:et: ev:¾an:Î b:ÒÉ p:ÜN:üö s:m:aD::ò. 409
The wise man experiences the perfection of God in his heart in
samadhi as something which is free from natural causation, a reality
beyond thought, uniform, unequalled, far from the associations of
pride, vouched for by the pronouncements of scripture, eternal, and
familiar to us as ourselves. 409
Aj:rm:Î Am:rm:Î Ast:aB:av:v:st:Øsv:Î A-p:ö
est:em:t:s:el:l:raeS:)Ky:m:aKy:aev:hin:m:Î
S:em:t:g:ØN:ev:karö S:aÃ:t:ö S:ant:m:Î Okö
Æed kl:y:et: ev:¾an:Î b:ÒÉ p:ÜN:üö s:m:aD::ò. 410
The wise man experiences the perfection of God in his heart in
samadhi as something which is unaging, undying, the abiding reality
among changing objects, formless, like a calm sea free from
questions and answers, where the effects of natural attributes are
at rest, eternal, peaceful and one. 410
s:m:aeht:ant:HkrN:H sv:-p:ð
ev:l::ðky:atm:an:m:Î AK:NRv:òB:v:m:Î
ev:ecCen¹ b:nD:ö B:v:g:nD:g:enD:t:ö
y:tn:ðn: p:Øöstv:ö s:Pl:i kÙ,\v:. 411
With the mind pacified by samadhi within, recognise the infinite
glory of yourself, sever the sweetsmelling bonds of samsara, and
energetically become one who has achieved the goal of human
existence. 411
s:v::ðüp:aeD:ev:en:m:ØüVt:ö s:ecc:dan:ndm:Î A¾y:m:Î
B:av:y:atm:an:m:Î A:tm:sT:ö n: B:Üy:H klp:s:ðDv:n:ð. 412
Free from all false selfidentification, meditate on yourself as the
nondual beingconsciousnessbliss within yourself, and you will no
longer be subject to samsara. 412
Cay:ðv: p:Øös:H p:erdáSy:m:an:m:Î
A:B:as:-p:ðN: Pl:an:ØB:Üty:a
S:rirm:Î A:rac:Î Cv:v:n:Î en:rst:ö
p:Øn:rÎ n: s:öD:¶: Edö m:hatm:a. 413
Seeing it as no more than a mans shadow, a mere reflection brought
about by causality, the sage looks on his body as from a distance
like a corpse, with no intention of taking it up again. 413
s:t:t:ev:m:l:b::ðD:an:nd-p:ö s:m:ðty:
ty:j: j:Rm:l:-p::ðp:aeD:m:Î Ot:ö s:ØdÝrð
AT: p:Øn:rÎ Aep: n:ò\: sm:y:üt:aö v:ant:v:st:Ø
sm:rN:ev:\:y:B:Üt:ö klp:t:ð kÙts:n:ay:. 414
Come to the eternally pure reality of consciousness and bliss and
reject afar identification with this dull and unclean body. Dont
remember it any more, like something once vomited is fit only for
contempt. 414
s:m:Ül:m:Î Ot:t:Î p:erdaÊ v:È:ò
s:datm:en: b:ÒÉeN: en:ev:üklp:ð
t:t:H sv:y:ö en:ty:ev:S:عb::ðD:Î
A:n:ndatm:n:a et:Ået: ev:¾erÅH. 415
Burning this down along with its roots in the fire of his true
nature, the imageless God, the wise man remains alone in his nature
as eternally pure consciousness and bliss. 415
)arbD:s:Ü*:g:ÒeT:t:ö S:rirö
)y:at:Ø v:a et:Åt:Ø g::ðrÎ Ev: +kÏ
n: t:tp:Øn:H p:Sy:et: t:¶v:v:ð¶:Î
A:n:ndatm:en: b:ÒÉeN: l:in:v:àe¶:H. 416
Let the body, spun on the thread of previous causation, fall or stay
put, like a cows garland. The knower of the Truth takes no more
notice of it, as his mental functions are merged in his true nature
of God. 416
AK:NRan:ndm:Î A:tm:an:ö ev:jW:ay: sv:sv:-p:t:H
ekm:Î EcCn:Î ksy: v:a hðt::ðrÎ dðhö p:Ø\N:aet: t:¶v:ev:t:Î. 417
To satisfy what desire, or for what purpose should the knower of the
Truth care for his body, when he knows himself in his own true
nature of indivisible bliss. 417
s:öes:¹sy: Pl:ö tv:Î Ot:j:Î j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: y::ðeg:n:H
b:ehrnt:H s:dan:ndrs:asv:adn:m:Î A:tm:en:. 418
The fruit gained by the successful man, liberated here and now, is
the enjoyment in himself of the experience of being and bliss within
and without. 418
v:òragy:sy: Pl:ö b::ðD::ð b::ðD:sy::ðp:ret:H Pl:m:Î
sv:an:ndan:ØB:v:ac:Î Caent:rÎ O\:òv::ðp:rt:ðH Pl:m:Î. 419
The fruit of dispassion is understanding, the fruit of understanding
is imperturbability, and the fruit of the experience of bliss within
is peace. This is the fruit of imperturbability. 419
y:½Î u¶:r:ð¶:raB:av:H p:Üv:üp:Üv:ünt:Ø en:\Pl:m:Î
en:v:àe¶:H p:rm:a t:àept:rÎ A:n:nd:ðn:Øp:m:H sv:t:H. 420
If the successive stages do not occur it means that the previous
ones were ineffective. Tranquillity is the supreme satisfaction,
leading to incomparable bliss. 420
dáÄdÙHK:ð\v:Î An:ؾðg::ð ev:½ay:aH )st:Øt:ö Pl:m:Î
y:tkát:ö B:Òaent:v:ðl:ay:aö n:an:a km:ü j:Øg:Øeps:t:m:Î
p:Á:an:Î n:r:ð ev:v:ðkñn: t:t:Î kT:ö kt:Øüm:Î Ahüet:. 421
The fruit of insight referred to is feeling no disquiet at the
experience of suffering. How could a man who has done various
disgusting actions in a time of aberration do the same again when he
is in his right mind? 421
ev:½aPl:ö sy:adÏ As:t::ð en:v:àe¶:H
)v:àe¶:rÎ AjW:an:Pl:ö t:dÏ Iex:t:m:Î
t:j:Î jW:ajW:y::ðrÎ y:n:Î m:àg:t:àe\N:kad:ò
n::ð c:ðdÏ ev:daö dáÄPl:ö ekm:Î Asm:at:Î. 422
The fruit of knowledge should be the turning away from the unreal,
while turning towards the unreal is seen to be the fruit of
ignorance. This can be seen in the case of someone who recognises or
does not recognise things like a mirage. Otherwise what fruit would
there be for seers? 422
AjW:an:Ædy:g:ÒnT:ðrÎ ev:n:aS::ð y:½Î AS:ð\:t:H
Aen:cC:ðrÎ ev:\:y:H ekö n:Ø )v:à¶:ðH karN:ö sv:t:H. 423
When the knot of the heart, ignorance, has been thoroughly removed,
how could the senses be the cause of the mind being directed
outwards for someone who does not want them? 423
v:as:n:an:Ødy::ð B::ðgy:ð v:òrag:sy: t:dav:eD:H
AhöB:av::ðdy:aB:av::ð b::ðD:sy: p:rm:av:eD:H
l:in:v:à¶:òrÎ An:Øtp:e¶:rÎ m:y:aüd:ðp:rt:ðs:Î t:Ø s:a. 424
When there is no upsurge of desire for goods, that is the summit of
dispassion. When there is no longer any occurrence of the
selfidentification with the doer, that is the summit of
understanding, and when there is no more arising of latent mental
activity, that is the summit of equanimity. 424
b:ÒÉakart:y:a s:da esT:t:t:y:a en:m:ØüVt:b:aÊaT:üD:irÎ
Any:av:ðedt:B::ðgy:B::ðg:kl:n::ð en:dÓal:Øv:dÏ b:al:v:t:Î
sv:pn:al::ðekt:l::ðkv:j:Î j:g:dÏ Edö p:Sy:n:Î Vv:ec:l:Î l:bD:D:i
rast:ð keÁ:dÏ An:nt:p:ØNy:Pl:B:Øg:Î D:ny:H s: m:any::ð B:Øev:. 425
He is the enjoyer of the fruit of infinite past good deeds, blessed
and to be revered on earth, who free from external things by always
been established in his awareness of God, regards objects which
others look on as desirable like someone half asleep, or like a
child, and who looks at the world like a world seen in a dream, or
like some mere chance encounter. 425
esT:t:)jW::ð y:et:rÎ Ay:ö y:H s:dan:ndm:Î ASn:Øt:ð
b:ÒÉNy:Î Ov: ev:l:in:atm:a en:ev:ükar:ð ev:en:e\#y:H. 426
That ascetic is of established wisdom who enjoys the experience of
being and bliss with his mind merged in God, beyond change and
beyond action. 426
b:ÒÉatm:n::ðH S::ðeD:t:y::ðrÎ OkB:av:av:g:aehn:i
en:ev:üklp:a c: ec:nm:a*:a v:àe¶:H )jW:ðet: kTy:t:ð
s:ØesT:t:as::ò B:v:ðdÏ y:sy: esT:t:)jW:H s: ucy:t:ð. 427
That function of the mind which is imageless pure awareness, and
which is immersed in the essential oneness of oneself and God is
known as wisdom, and he in whom this state is well established is
called one of established wisdom. 427
y:sy: esT:t:a B:v:ðt:Î )jW:a y:sy:an:nd:ð en:rnt:rH
)p:Wc::ð ev:sm:àt:)ay:H s: j:iv:nm:ØVt: E\y:t:ð. 428
He whose wisdom is well established, whose bliss is uninterrupted,
and whose awareness of multiplicity is virtually forgotten, he is
regarded as liberated here and now. 428
l:in:D:irÎ Aep: j:ag:et:ü j:ag:Ò¹m:üev:v:ej:üt:H
b::ðD::ð en:v:aüs:n::ð y:sy: s: j:iv:nm:ØVt: E\y:t:ð. 429
When a mans mind is at rest in God even when he is awake he does not
share the usual condition of being awake. He whose awareness is free
of desires is regarded as liberated here and now. 429
S:ant:s:ös:arkl:n:H kl:av:an:Î Aep: en:\kl:H
y:sy: ec:¶:ö ev:en:eÁ:nt:ö s: j:iv:nm:ØVt: E\y:t:ð. 430
He whose worries in samsara have been put to rest, who though made
up of parts does not identify himself with them, and whose mind is
free from thoughts, he is regarded as liberated here and now. 430
v:t:üm:an:ðep: dðhðesm:W:Î Cay:av:dÏ An:Øv:et:üen:
Ahnt:am:m:t:aB:av::ð j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: l:x:N:m:Î. 431
The sign of a man liberated here and now is the absence of thoughts
of "me" and "mine" in the body while it still exists, going along
with him like his shadow. 431
At:it:an:n:Øs:nD:an:ö B:ev:\y:dÏ Aev:c:arN:m:Î
A:òdas:iny:m:Î Aep: )apt:ö j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: l:x:N:m:Î. 432
The sign of a man liberated here and now is not running back to the
past, not dwelling on the future, and being unconcerned about the
present. 432
g:ØN:d:ð\:ev:eS:Äðesm:n:Î sv:B:av:ðn: ev:l:x:N:ð
s:v:ü*: s:m:deS:ütv:ö j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: l:x:N:m:Î. 433
The sign of a man liberated here and now is to look with an equal
eye on everything in this manifold existence with all its natural
faults, knowing that in itself it is without characteristics. 433
EÄaen:ÄaT:üs:m)apt::ò s:m:deS:üt:y:atm:en:
uB:y:*:aev:kaertv:ö j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: l:x:N:m:Î. 434
The sign of a man liberated here and now is to remain unmoved in
either direction, looking on things with an equal eye within,
whether encountering the pleasant or the painful. 434
b:ÒÉan:ndrs:asv:adas:Vt:ec:¶:t:y:a y:t:ðH
Ant:b:üehrev:jW:an:ö j:iv:nm:ØVt:sy: l:x:N:m:Î. 435
The sign of a man liberated here and now is to be unaware of
internal or external, since the ascetics mind is occupied with
enjoying the experience of the bliss of God. 435
dðhðendÓy:ad:ò kt:üvy:ð m:m:ahöB:av:v:ej:üt:H
A:òdas:iny:ðn: y:s:Î et:Åðt:Î s: j:iv:nm:ØVt:l:x:N:H. 436
The sign of a man liberated here and now is that he remains
unconcerned and free from the sense of "me" and "mine" in the things
needing to be done by the body and the senses and so on. 436
ev:jW:at: A:tm:n::ð y:sy: b:ÒÉB:av:H Â:Øt:ðrÎ b:l:at:Î
B:v:b:nD:ev:en:m:ØüVt:H s: j:iv:nm:ØVt:l:x:N:H. 437
The sign of a man liberated here and now is that he is free from the
bonds of samsara, knowing his own identity with God with the help of
the scriptures. 437
dðhðendÓy:ð\v:Î AhöB:av: EdöB:av:s:Î t:dny:kñ
y:sy: n::ð B:v:t:H Vv:aep: s: j:iv:nm:ØVt: E\y:t:ð. 438
He is regarded as liberated here and now who has no sense of "this
is me" in the body and senses, nor of "it exists" in anything else.
438
n: )ty:g:Î b:ÒÉN::ðrÎ B:ðdö kdaep: b:ÒÉs:g:üy::ðH
)jW:y:a y::ð ev:j:aen:et: s: j:iv:nm:ØVt:l:x:N:H. 439
The sign of a man liberated here and now is that he knows by wisdom
that there is never any distinction between God and what proceeds
from God. 439
s:aD:ØeB:H p:Üjy:m:an:ðesm:n:Î p:i´m:an:ðep: dÙj:ün:òH
s:m:B:av::ð B:v:ðdÏ y:sy: s: j:iv:nm:ØVt:l:x:N:H. 440
The sign of a man liberated here and now is that he remains the same
whether he is revered by the good or tortured by the bad. 440
y:*: )ev:Äa ev:\:y:aH p:rðert:a
n:di)v:aha Ev: v:aerrÎ A:S::ò
el:n:ent: s:nm:a*:t:y:a n: ev:e#y:aö
utp:ady:nty:Î O\: y:et:rÎ ev:m:ØVt:H. 441
That ascetic is liberated into whom, because of his being pure
reality, the sense object can flow and merge without leaving any
alteration, like the water of a rivers flow. 441
ev:jW:at:b:ÒÉt:¶v:sy: y:T:ap:Üv:üö n: s:ös:àet:H
Aest: c:ðn:Î n: s: ev:jW:at:b:ÒÉB:av::ð b:ehm:ØüK:H. 442
There is no more samsara for him who knows the Truth of God as there
was before. If there is, then it is not the knowledge of God, since
it is still outward turned. 442
)ac:in:v:as:n:av:ðg:adÏ As::ò s:ös:rt:iet: c:ðt:Î
n: s:dðktv:ev:jW:an:an:Î m:ndi B:v:et: v:as:n:a. 443
If it is suggested that he still experiences samsara because of the
strength of his previous desires, the answer is, No, desires become
powerless through the knowledge of ones oneness with Reality. 443
Aty:nt:kam:Øksy:aep: v:àe¶:H kÙNYet: m:at:er
t:T:òv: b:ÒÉeN: jW:at:ð p:ÜN:aün:ndð m:n:ie\:N:H. 444
The impulses of even an extremely passionate man are arrested in
face of his mother, and in the same way those of the wise cease in
face of the perfect bliss of the knowledge of God. 444
en:edDy:as:n:S:il:sy: b:aÊ)ty:y: Ixy:t:ð
b:Òv:iet: Â:Øet:rÎ Ot:sy: )arbD:ö Pl:dS:ün:at:Î. 445
Someone practising meditation is seen to have external functions
still. Scripture declares that this is the effect of the fruits of
previous conditioning. 445
s:ØK:a½n:ØB:v::ð y:av:t:Î t:av:t:Î )arbD:m:Î E\y:t:ð
Pl::ðdy:H e#y:ap:Üv::ðü en:e\#y::ð n: eh kÙ*:ec:t:Î. 446
So long as pleasure and the like occur, one acknowledges the effect
of previous conditioning. A result occurs because of a previous
cause. Nothing happens without a cause. 446
Ahö b:ÒÉðet: ev:jW:an:at:Î klp:k:ðeXS:t:aej:üt:m:Î
s:eWc:t:ö ev:l:y:ö y:aet: )b::ðD:at:Î sv:pn:km:üv:t:Î. 447
With the realisation that "I am God", all the actions accumulated
over ages are wiped out, like actions in a dream on waking up. 447
y:t:Î kát:ö sv:pn:v:ðl:ay:aö p:ØNy:ö v:a p:ap:m:Î ulb:N:m:Î
s:Øpt::ðetT:t:sy: ekn:Î t:t:Î sy:at:Î sv:g:aüy: n:rkay: v:a. 448
How could the good or even dreadfully bad deeds done in the dreaming
state lead a man to heaven or hell when he arises from sleep? 448
sv:m:Î As:¤m:Î udas:in:ö p:erjW:ay: n:B::ð y:T:a
n: eSl:\y:et: c: y:kÏ ekeWc:t:Î kdaec:dÏ B:aev:km:üeB:H. 449
Recognising himself as unattached and impartial space, he never hold
on to anything with the thought of actions yet to be done. 449
n: n:B::ð G:Xy::ðg:ðn: s:Ørag:nD:ðn: el:py:t:ð
t:T:atm::ðp:aeD:y::ðg:ðn: t:¹m:òürÎ n:òv: el:py:t:ð. 450
Space is not affected with the smell of wine by contact with the
jar, and in the same way ones true nature is not affected by their
qualities through contact with the things one identified oneself
with. 450
jW:an::ðdy:at:Î p:ØrarbD:ö km:ü jW:an:an:Î n: n:Sy:et:
Adtv:a sv:Pl:ö l:xy:m:Î ue¸Sy::ðts:àÄb:aN:v:t:Î. 451
The karma created before the arising of knowledge does not come to
an end with knowledge without producing its effect, like an arrow
shot at a target after being loosed. 451
vy:aG:Òb:عÐy:a ev:en:m:ØüVt::ð b:aN:H p:Á:at:Î t:Ø g::ðm:t::ò
n: et:Ået: eCn:ty:ðv: l:xy:ö v:ðg:ðn: en:B:ürm:Î. 452
An arrow released in the understanding that it was at a tiger does
not stop when it is seen to be a cow, but pierces the target with
the full force of its speed. 452
)arbD:ö b:l:v:¶:rö K:l:Ø ev:daö B::ðg:ðn: t:sy: x:y:H
s:my:g:Î jW:an:hÚt:aS:n:ðn: ev:l:y:H )aVs:öec:t:ag:aem:n:am:Î
b:ÒÉatm:òVy:m:Î Av:ðxy: t:nm:y:t:y:a y:ð s:v:üda s:öesT:t:aH
t:ð\:aö t:et*:t:y:ö n: eh Vv:ec:dÏ Aep: b:ÒÉòv: t:ð en:g:ØüN:m:Î. 453
The effects of previous conditioning are too strong for even a wise
man, and it is eliminated only by enduring it, but the effects of
present and future conditioning are all destroyed by the fire of
true understanding. Those who are always established in the
knowledge of their oneness with God, as a result of that are not
affected by these three aspects of conditioning since they share the
unconditioned nature of God. 453
up:aeD:t:adÏ A:tmy:ev:hin:kñv:l:
b:ÒÉatm:n:òv:atm:en: et:Åt::ð m:Øn:ðH
)arbD:s:»av:kT:a n: y:ØVt:a
sv:pn:aT:üs:öb:nD:kT:ðv: j:ag:Òt:H. 454
The question of the existence of past conditioning does not apply
for the ascetic who, by getting rid of selfidentification with
anything else, is established within in the knowledge of the
perfection of God as his true nature, just as questions concerned
with things in a dream have no meaning when one has woken up. 454
n: eh )b:عH )et:B:as:dðhð
dðh:ðp:y::ðeg:ny:Î Aep: c: )p:Wc:ð
kr:ðty:Î Ahn:Î t:aö m:m: t:an:Î Edn:Î t:aö
ekn:Î t:Ø sv:y:ö et:Ået: j:ag:rðN:. 455
He who has woken up makes no distinctions about his dream body and
the multiplicity of things connected with it as being "me", "mine"
or anything else, but simply remains himself by staying awake. 455
n: t:sy: em:Ty:aT:üs:m:T:ün:Î OcCa
n: s:ög:Òhs:Î t:jj:g:t::ðep: dáÄH
t:*:an:Øv:àe¶:rÎ y:ed c:ðn:Î m:à\:aT:ðü
n: en:dÓy:a m:ØVt: Et:i\y:t:ð D:ÒØv:m:Î. 456
He has no desire to assert the reality of those illusions, and he
has no need to hold on to the things he has woken up from. If he
still chases these false realities he is certainly considered not
awake yet. 456
t:¾t:Î p:rð b:ÒÉeN: v:t:üm:an:H
s:datm:n:a et:Ået: n:any:dÏ Ix:t:ð
sm:àet:rÎ y:T:a sv:pn:ev:l::ðekt:aT:ðü
t:T:a ev:dH )aS:n:m::ðc:n:ad:ò. 457
In the same way he who lives in God remains in his own nature and
seeks nothing else. Like the memory of things seen in a dream is the
way the seer experiences eating, going to the toilet and so on. 457
km:üN:a en:em:üt::ð dðhH )arbD:ö t:sy: klpy:t:am:Î
n:an:adðrÎ A:tm:n::ð y:ØVt:ö n:òv:atm:a km:üen:em:üt:H. 458
The body has been formed by causation so past causality
appropriately applies to it, but it does not apply to the
beginningless self, since ones true nature has not been causally
formed. 458
Aj::ð en:ty:H S:aÃ:t: Eet: b:ÒÜt:ð Â:Øet:rÎ Am::ðG:v:akÏ
t:datm:n:a et:Åt::ðsy: kÙt:H )arbD:klp:n:a. 459
Scriptures which do not err affirm that ones true nature is "Unborn,
eternal and abiding" (Katha Upanishad 1.2.18), so how could
causality apply to someone established in such a self? 459
)arbD:ö es:Dy:et: t:da y:da dðhatm:n:a esT:et:H
dðhatm:B:av::ð n:òv:ðÄH )arbD:ö ty:jy:t:am:t:H. 460
Causality applies only so long as one identifies oneself with the
body, so he who does not consider himself the body has abolished
causality for himself. 460
S:rirsy:aep: )arbD:klp:n:a B:Òaent:rðv: eh
ADy:st:sy: kÙt:H s:¶v:m:s:ty:sy: kÙt::ð j:en:H
Aj:at:sy: kÙt::ð n:aS:H )arbD:m:s:t:H kÙt:H. 461
Even the opinion that causality applies to the body is a mistake.
How can a false assumption be true, and how can something which does
not exist have a beginning? How can something with no beginning have
an end, and how can causality apply to something that does not
exist? 461
jW:an:ðn:ajW:an:kay:üsy: s:m:Ül:sy: l:y::ð y:ed
et:Åty:Î Ay:ö kT:ö dðh Eet: S:¢av:t::ð j:Ran:Î. 462
s:m:aD:at:Øö b:aÊdá\®a )arbD:ö v:det: Â:Øet:H
n: t:Ø dðhaeds:ty:tv:b::ðD:n:ay: ev:p:eÁ:t:am:Î. 463
The ignorant have the problem that if ignorance has been completely
eliminated by knowledge, how does the body persist? To settle this
doubt scripture talks about causality in accordance with
conventional views, but not to teach the reality of the body and
such things to the wise. 462, 463
p:erp:ÜN:üm:Î An:a½nt:m:Î A)m:ðy:m:Î Aev:e#y:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 464
Complete in himself, without beginning or end, infinite and
unchanging, God is one and without a second. There is nothing other
than He. 464
s:dÏG:n:ö ec:dÏG:n:ö en:ty:m:Î A:n:ndG:n:m:Î Ae#y:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 465
The essence of Truth, the essence of Consciousness, the eternal
essence of Bliss and unchanging, God is one and without a second.
There is nothing other than He. 465
)ty:g:Î Okrs:ö p:ÜN:üm:Î An:nt:ö s:v:üt::ðm:ØK:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 466
The one reality within everything, complete, infinite, and
limitless, God is one and without a second. There is nothing other
than He. 466
Ahðy:m:Î An:Øp:adðy:m:Î An:adðy:m:Î An:aÂ:y:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 467
He cannot be removed or grasped; he cannot be received from someone
else, or held onto. God is one and without a second. There is
nothing other than He. 467
en:g:ØüN:ö en:\kl:ö s:Üxm:ö en:ev:üklp:ö en:rWj:n:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 468
Without attributes, indivisible, subtle, inconceivable, and without
blemish, God is one and without a second. There is nothing other
than He. 468
Aen:-py:sv:-p:ö y:n:Î m:n::ðv:ac:am:Î Ag::ðc:rm:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 469
His appearance is formless, beyond the realm of mind and speech. God
is one and without a second. There is nothing other than He. 469
s:ts:m:à¹ö sv:t:H es:¹ö S:عö b:عm:Î An:idáS:m:Î
Okm:Î Ov:a¾y:ö b:ÒÉ n:ðh n:an:aest: ekWc:n:. 470
Exuberant Reality, selfreliant, complete, pure, conscious and
unique, God is one and without a second. There is nothing other than
He. 470
en:rst:rag:a ev:en:rst:B::ðg:aH
S:ant:aH s:Ødant:a y:t:y::ð m:hant:H
ev:jW:ay: t:¶v:ö p:rm:Î Ot:dÏ Ant:ð
)apt:aH p:raö en:v:àüet:m:Î A:tm:y::ðg:at:Î. 471
Great ascetics who have abandoned desires and given up possessions,
calm and disciplined, come to know this supreme Truth, and in the
end attain the supreme peace by their selfrealisation. 471
B:v:an:Î Ap:idö p:rt:¶v:m:Î A:tm:n:H
sv:-p:m:Î A:n:ndG:n:ö ev:c:ay:ü
ev:D:Üy: m::ðhö sv:m:n:H)kelp:t:ö
m:ØVt:H kát:aT::ðü B:v:t:Ø )b:عH. 472
You too should recognise this supreme Truth about yourself, your
true nature and the essence of bliss, and shaking off the illusion
created by your own imagination, become liberated, fulfilled and
enlightened. 472
s:m:aeD:n:a s:aD:Øev:en:Á:l:atm:n:a
p:Sy:atm:t:¶v:ö sPÙXb::ðD:c:x:Ø\:a
en:Hs:öS:y:ö s:my:g:Î Av:ðex:t:S:Î c:ðc:Î
CÕÚt:H p:daT::ðü n: p:Øn:rÎ ev:klpy:t:ð. 473
See the Truth of yourself with the clear eye of understanding, after
the mind has been made thoroughly unwavering by meditation. If the
words of scripture you have heard are really received without
doubting, you will experience no more mistaken perception. 473
sv:sy:aev:½ab:nD:s:mb:nD:m::ðx:at:Î
s:ty:jW:an:an:nd-p:atm:l:bD::ò
S:as*:ö y:ØeVt:rÎ dðeS:k:ðeVt:H )m:aN:ö
c:ant:Hes:¹a sv:an:ØB:Üet:H )m:aN:m:Î. 474
When one has freed oneself from association with the bonds of
ignorance by the realisation of the reality of Truth, Wisdom and
Bliss, then scripture, traditional practices and the sayings of the
wise remain proofs, but the inner experience of truth is proof too.
474
b:nD::ð m::ðx:S:Î c: t:àept:S:Î c: ec:nt:ar:ðgy:x:Ødady:H
sv:ðn:òv: v:ð½a y:jjW:an:ö p:rð\:am:Î A:n:Øm:aen:km:Î. 475
Bondage, freedom, contentment, worry, health, hunger and so on are
matters of personal experience, and other peoples knowledge of them
can only be by inference. 475
t:XesT:t:a b::ðD:y:ent: g:Ørv:H Â:Øt:y::ð y:T:a
)jW:y:òv: t:rðdÏ ev:¾an:Î IÃ:ran:Øg:àhit:y:a. 476
Impartial gurus teach, as do the scriptures, that the wise man
crosses over by means of wisdom alone through the grace of God. 476
sv:an:ØB:Üty:a sv:y:ö jW:atv:a sv:m:Î A:tm:an:m:Î AK:eNRt:m:Î
s:öes:¹H s:mm:ØK:ö et:Åðn:Î en:ev:üklp:atm:n:atm:en:. 477
Knowing his true indivisible nature by his own realisation the
perfected man should remain in full possession of himself free from
imaginations within. 477
v:ðdant:es:¹ant:en:,eVt:rÎ O\:a
b:ÒÉòv: j:iv:H s:kl:ö j:g:c:Î c:
AK:NR-p:esT:et:rÎ Ov: m::ðx::ð
b:ÒÉae¾t:iy:ð Â:Øt:y:H )m:aN:m:Î. 478
The conclusion of all the scriptures and of experience is that God
is the individual and the whole world too, and that liberation is to
remain in the one indivisible Reality. The scriptures are also the
authority for the nonduality of God. 478
Eet: g:Ø,v:c:n:ac:Î CÕÚet:)m:aN:at:Î
p:rm:Î Av:g:my: s:t:¶v:m:Î A:tm:y:ØVty:a
)S:em:t:krN:H s:m:aeht:atm:a
Vv:ec:dÏ Ac:l:akáet:rÎ A:tm:en:Åt::ðB:Üt:Î. 479
Having thus attained the supreme reality by self discipline through
the words of his guru and the testimony of the scriptures, his
faculties at peace and his mind at peace, he becomes something
selfpoised and immovable. 479
ekeWc:t:Î kal:ö s:m:aD:ay: p:rð b:ÒÉeN: m:an:s:m:Î
utT:ay: p:rm:an:ndadÏ Edö v:c:n:m:Î Ab:Òv:it:Î. 480
Having established his mind for some time in the supreme God, he
arose from supreme bliss and uttered these words. 480
b:Øe¹rÎ ev:n:Äa g:el:t:a )v:àe¶:H
b:ÒÉatm:n::ðrÎ Okt:y:aeD:g:ty:a
Edö n: j:an:ðpy:Î Aen:dö n: j:an:ð
ekö v:a eky:dÏ v:a s:ØK:m:Î Asty:Î Ap:arm:Î. 481
My intellect has vanished and my mental activities have been
swallowed up in the realisation of the oneness of myself and God. I
no longer know this from that, nor what or how great this
unsurpassed joy is. 481
v:ac:a v:Vt:Øm:Î AS:Vy:m:Î Ov: m:n:s:a m:nt:Øö n: v:a S:Vy:t:ð
sv:an:ndam:àt:p:Ürp:Üert:p:rb:ÒÉamb:ØD:ðrÎ v:òB:v:m:Î
AmB::ðraeS:ev:S:iN:üv:ae\:ükeS:l:aB:av:ö B:j:n:Î m:ð m:n::ð
y:sy:aöS:aöS:l:v:ð ev:l:in:m:Î AD:Øn:an:ndatm:n:a en:v:àüt:m:Î. 482
Words cannot express nor the mind conceive the greatness of the
ocean of the supreme God, full of the nectar of bliss. Like the
state of a hailstone fallen into the ocean, my mind has now melted
away in the tiniest fraction of it, fulfilled by its essential
nature of Bliss. 482
Vv: g:t:ö kñn: v:a n:it:ö kÙ*: l:in:m:Î Edö j:g:t:Î
AD:Øn:òv: m:y:a dáÄö n:aest: ekö m:hdÏ A»Øt:m:Î. 483
Where has the world gone? Who has removed it, or where has it
disappeared to? I saw it only just now, and now it is not there.
This a great wonder. 483
ekö hðy:ö ekm:Î up:adðy:ö ekm:Î Any:t:Î ekö ev:l:x:N:m:Î
AK:NRan:ndp:iy:Ü\:p:ÜN:ðü b:ÒÉm:haN:üv:ð. 484
In the great ocean filled with the nectar of the indivisible bliss
of God, what is to be got rid of, what is to be held onto, what is
there apart from oneself and what has any characteristics of its
own? 484
n: ekeWc:dÏ A*: p:Sy:aem: n: S:àN::ðem: n: v:ð¼Îy:Î Ahm:Î
sv:atm:n:òv: s:dan:nd-p:ðN:aesm: ev:l:x:N:H. 485
I can neither see, hear or experience anything else there, as it is
I who exist there by myself with the characteristics of Being and
Bliss. 485
n:m::ð n:m:s:Î t:ð g:Ørv:ð m:hatm:n:ð
ev:m:ØVt:s:¤ay: s:dÙ¶:m:ay:
en:ty:a¾y:an:ndrs:sv:-ep:N:ð
B:Ümn:ð s:dap:ardy:amb:ØD:amn:ð. 486
Salutation upon salutation to you, great guru, free from attachment,
the embodiment of absolute Truth, with the nature of ever nondual
bliss, the sea of eternal compassion on earth. 486
y:tkXax:S:eS:s:andÓc:endÓka
p:at:D:Üt:B:v:t:ap:j:Â:m:H
)apt:v:an:Î Ahm:Î AK:NRv:òB:v:Î
A:n:ndm:Î A:tm:p:dm:Î Ax:y:ö x:N:at:Î. 487
Your very glance has soothed like gentle moonlight the weariness
produced by the great heat of samsara, and I have immediately
attained my own true everlasting home, the abode of imperishable
glory and bliss. 487
D:ny::ðhö kát:káty::ðhö ev:m:ØVt::ðhö B:v:g:Òhat:Î
en:ty:an:ndsv:-p::ðhö p:ÜN::ðühö tv:dn:Øg:Òhat:Î. 488
Through your grace I am blessed, I have achieved the goal, I am
freed from the bonds of samsara, I am eternal bliss by nature, and
fulfilled. 488
As:¤:ðhm:Î An:¤:ðhm:Î Ael:¤:ðhm:Î AB:¤ÛrH
)S:ant::ðhm:Î An:nt::ðhm:Î Am:l::ðhö ec:rnt:n:H. 489
I am free, I am bodiless, I am without sex and indestructible. I am
at peace, I am infinite, without blemish and eternal. 489
Akt:aühm:Î AB::ðVt:ahm:Î Aev:kar:ðhm:Î Ae#y:H
S:عb::ðD:sv:-p::ðhö kñv:l::ðhö s:daeS:v:H. 490
I am not the doer and I am not the reaper of the consequences. I am
unchanging and without activity. I am pure awareness by nature, I am
perfect and forever blessed. 490
dÓÄÙH Â::ðt:ØrÎ v:Vt:ØH kt:ØürÎ B::ðVt:ØrÎ ev:eB:À Ov:ahm:Î
en:ty:en:rnt:ren:e\#y:en:Hs:im:as:¤p:ÜN:üb::ðD:atm:a. 491
I am distinct from the seer, hearer, speaker, doer and experiencer.
I am eternal, undivided, actionless, limitless, unattached perfect
awareness by nature. 491
n:ahm:Î Edö n:ahm:Î Ad:ðpy:Î uB:y::ðrÎ Av:B:as:kö p:rö S:عm:Î
b:aÊaBy:nt:rS:Üny:ö p:ÜN:üö b:ÒÉae¾t:iy:m:Î Ov:ahm:Î. 492
I am neither this nor that, but the pure supreme reality which
illuminates them both. I am God, the indivisible, devoid of inside
and outside, complete. 492
en:,p:m:m:Î An:aedt:¶v:ö tv:m:hem:dm:d Eet: klp:n:adÝrm:Î
en:ty:an:ndòkrs:ö s:ty:ö b:ÒÉae¾t:iy:m:Î Ov:ahm:Î. 493
I am uncomparable, beginningless Reality. I am far from such
thoughts as "you", "me", and "this". I am eternal bliss, the Truth,
the nondual God himself. 493
n:aray:N::ðhö n:rkant:k:ðhö
p:Ørant:k:ðhö p:Ø,\::ðhm:Î IS:H
AK:NRb::ðD::ðhm:Î AS:ð\:s:ax:i
en:riÃ:r:ðhö en:rhö c: en:m:üm:H. 494
I am Narayana, I am the slayer of Naraka and of Pura. I am the
supreme Person and the Lord. I am indivisible awareness, the witness
of everything. I have no master and I am without any sense of "me"
and "mine". 494
s:v:ðü\:Ø B:Üt:ð\v:Î Ahm:Î Ov: s:öesT:t::ð
jW:an:atm:n:ant:b:üehraÂ:y:H s:n:Î
B::ðVt:a c: B::ðgy:ö sv:y:m:Î Ov: s:v:üö
y:½t:Î p:àT:g:Î dáÄm:Î Ednt:y:a p:Øra. 495
I abide in all creatures, being the very knowledge which is their
inner and outer support. I myself am the ejoyer and all enjoyment,
in fact whatever I experienced before now. 495
m:yy:Î AK:NRs:ØK:amB::ðD::ò b:hÚD:a ev:Ã:v:ic:y:H
utp:½nt:ð ev:l:iy:nt:ð m:ay:am:a,t:ev:B:Òm:at:Î. 496
In me who am the ocean of infinite joy the manifold waves of the
universe arise and come to an end, impelled by the winds of Maya.
496
sT:Øl:aedB:av:a m:ey: kelp:t:a B:Òm:adÏ
A:r:ðep:t:an:ØsPÙrN:ðn: l::ðkóH
kal:ð y:T:a klp:kv:ts:ray:N:
tv:aüdy::ð en:\kl:en:ev:üklp:ð. 497
Ideas like "material" are mistakenly imagined about me by people
under the influence of their presuppositions, as are divisions of
time like kalpas, years, halfyears and seasons, dividing the
indivisible and inconceivable.. 497
A:r:ðep:t:ö n:aÂ:y:dÝ\:kö B:v:ðt:Î
kdaep: m:ÜZòrÎ Aet:d:ð\:dÝe\:t:òH
n:adÓiü kr:ðty:Î U\:rB:Üem:B:ag:ö
m:riec:kav:aer m:ha)v:ahH. 498
The presuppositions of the severely deluded can never affect the
underlying reality, just as the great torrent of a mirage flood
cannot wet a desert land. 498
A:kaS:v:l:Î l:ðp:ev:dÝrg::ðhö
A:edty:v:dÏ B:asy:ev:l:x:N::ðhm:Î
Ahay:üv:n:Î en:ty:ev:en:Á:l::ðhö
AmB::ðeD:v:t:Î p:arev:v:ej:üt::ðhm:Î. 499
Like space, I am beyond contamination. Like the sun, I am distinct
from the things illuminated. Like a mountain, I am always immovable.
Like the ocean, I am boundless. 499
n: m:ð dðhðn: s:mb:nD::ð m:ðG:ðn:ðv: ev:hay:s:H
At:H kÙt::ð m:ð t:¹m:aü j:ag:Òtsv:pn:s:Ø\:Øpt:y:H. 500
I am no more bound to the body than the sky is to a cloud, so how
can I be affected by its states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep?
500
up:aeD:rÎ A:y:aet: s: Ov: g:cCet:
s: Ov: km:aüeN: kr:ðet: B:Ø¢Ñt:ð
s: Ov: j:iy:ün:Î em:Òy:t:ð s:dahö
kÙl:aedÓv:n:Î en:Á:l: Ov: s:öesT:t:H. 501
Imagined attributes added to ones true nature come and go. They
create karma and experience its effects. They grow old and die, but
I always remain immovable like mount Kudrali. 501
n: m:ð )v:àe¶:rÎ n: c: m:ð en:v:àe¶:H
s:dòk-p:sy: en:röS:ksy:
Okatm:k:ð y::ð en:ev:R:ð en:rnt:r:ð
vy::ðm:ðv: p:ÜN:üH s: kT:ö n:Ø c:ðÄt:ð. 502
There is no outward turning nor turning back for me, who am always
the same and indivisible. How can that perform actions which is
single, of one nature, without parts and complete, like space? 502
p:ØNy:aen: p:ap:aen: en:erendÓy:sy:
en:Á:ðt:s::ð en:ev:ükát:ðrÎ en:rakát:ðH
kÙt::ð m:m:aK:NRs:ØK:an:ØB:Üt:ðH
b:ÒÜt:ð ÊÐ An:nv:ag:t:m:Î Ety:Î Aep: Â:Øet:H. 503
How can there be good and bad deeds for me who am organless,
mindless, changeless and formless, and experience only indivisible
joy? The scriptures themselves declare "he is not affected"
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22). 503
Cay:y:a sp:àÄm:Î u\N:ö v:a S:it:ö v:a s:ØÅÙ dÙHÅÙ v:a
n: sp:àS:ty:Î Ov: y:t:Î ekeWc:t:Î p:Ø,\:ö t:e¾l:x:N:m:Î. 504
Heat or cold, the pleasant or the unpleasant coming into contact
with a mans shadow in no way affect the man himself who is quite
distinct from his shadow. 504
n: s:aex:N:ö s:axy:D:m:aüH s:ösp:àS:ent: ev:l:x:N:m:Î
Aev:karm:Î udas:in:ö g:àhD:m:aüH )dip:v:t:Î. 505
The qualities of things seen do not touch the seer, who is quite
distinct from them, changeless and unaffected, just as household
objects do not touch the lamp there. 505
rv:ðrÎ y:T:a km:üeN: s:aex:B:av::ð
v:ÈðrÎ y:T:a dahen:y:am:Î Aktv:m:Î
rjj::ðrÎ y:T:ar:ðep:t:v:st:Øs:¤H
t:T:òv: kÝXsT:ec:datm:n::ð m:ð. 506
Like the suns mere witnessing of actions, like fires noninvolvement
with the things it is burning, and like the relationship of a rope
to the idea superimposed on it, so is the unchanging consciousness
within me. 506
kt:aüep: v:a karey:t:aep: n:ahö
B::ðVt:aep: v:a B::ðj:ey:t:aep: n:ahm:Î
dÓÄaep: v:a dS:üey:t:aep: n:ahö
s::ðhö sv:y:ö jy::ðet:rÎ An:idág:atm:a. 507
I neither do nor make things happen. I neither experience nor cause
to experience. I neither see nor make others see. I am that supreme
light without attributes. 507
c:l:ty:Î up:aD::ò )et:eb:mb:l::òly:m:Î
A:òp:aeD:kö m:ÜZeD:y::ð n:y:ent:
sv:eb:mb:B:Üt:ö rev:v:dÏ ev:en:e\#y:ö
kt:aüesm: B::ðVt:aesm: ht::ðesm: hðet:. 508
When intervening factors (the water) move, the ignorant ascribe the
movement of the reflection to the object itself, like the sun which
is actually immovable. They think "I am the doer", "I am the reaper
of the consequences", and "Alas, I am being killed." 508
j:l:ð v:aep: sT:l:ð v:aep: l:ØYtv:Î O\: j:Ratm:kH
n:ahö ev:el:py:ð t:¹m:òürÎ G:XD:m:òürÎ n:B::ð y:T:a. 509
Whether my physical body falls into water or onto dry land, I am not
dirtied by their qualities, just as space is not affected by the
qualities of a jar it is in. 509
kt:àütv:B::ðVt:àtv:K:l:tv:m:¶:t:a
j:Rtv:b:¹tv:ev:m:ØVt:t:ady:H
b:عðrÎ ev:klp:a n: t:Ø s:ent: v:st:Øt:H
sv:esm:n:Î p:rð b:ÒÉeN: kñv:l:ð¾y:ð. 510
Such states as thinking oneself the doer or the reaper of the
consequences, being wicked, drunk, stupid, bound or free are false
assumptions of the understanding, and do not apply in reality to
ones true self, the supreme, perfect and nondual God. 510
s:nt:Ø ev:karaH )kát:ðrÎ dS:D:a S:t:D:a s:h+D:a v:aep:
ekö m:ðs:¤ec:t:s:Î t:òrÎ n: G:n:H Vv:ec:dÏ Amb:rö sp:àS:et:. 511
Let there be tens of changes on the natural level, hundreds of
changes, thousands of changes. What is that to me, who am unattached
consciousness? The clouds never touch the sky. 511
Avy:Vt:aedsT:Ül:p:y:ünt:m:Î Ot:t:Î
ev:Ã:ö y:*:aB:as:m:a*:ö )t:it:m:Î
vy::ðm:)Ky:ö s:Üxm:m:Î A:½nt:hin:ö
b:ÒÉa¾òt:ö y:t:Î t:dÏ Ov:ahm:Î Aesm:. 512
I am that nondual God, who like space is subtle and without
beginning or end, and in whom all this from the unmanifest down to
the material is displayed as no more than an appearance. 512
s:v:aüD:arö s:v:üv:st:Ø)kaS:ö
s:v:aükarö s:v:üg:ö s:v:üS:Üny:m:Î
en:ty:ö S:عö en:Á:l:ö en:ev:üklp:ö
b:ÒÉa¾òt:ö y:t:Î t:dÏ Ov:ahm:Î Aesm:. 513
I am that nondual God who is eternal, pure, unmoving and imageless,
the support of everything, the illuminator of all objects, manifest
in all forms and allpervading, and yet empty of everything. 513
y:t:Î )ty:st:aS:ð\:m:ay:aev:S:ð\:ö
)ty:g:ÒÜp:ö )ty:y:ag:my:m:an:m:Î
s:ty:jW:an:an:nt:m:Î A:n:nd-p:ö
b:ÒÉa¾òt:ö y:t:Î t:dÏ Ov:ahm:Î Aesm:. 514
I am that nondual God who is infinite Truth, Knowledge and Bliss,
who transcends the endless modifications of Maya, who is ones own
reality and to be experienced within. 514
en:e\#y::ðsmy:Î Aev:kar:ðesm:
en:\kl::ðesm: en:rakáet:H
en:ev:üklp::ðesm: en:ty::ðesm:
en:ral:mb::ðesm: en:¾üy:H. 515
I am actionless, changeless, partless, formless, imageless, endless
and supportless one without a second. 515
s:v:aütm:k:ðhö s:v::ðühö s:v:aüt:it::ðhm:Î A¾y:H
kñv:l:aK:NRb::ðD::ðhm:Î A:n:nd:ðhö en:rnt:rH. 516
I am the reality in everything. I am everything and I am the nondual
beyond everything. I am perfect indivisible awareness and I am
infinite bliss. 516
sv:arajy:s:am:Òajy:ev:B:Üet:rÎ O\:a
B:v:tkáp:a Â:im:ehm:)s:adat:Î
)apt:a m:y:a Â:ig:Ørv:ð m:hatm:n:ð
n:m::ð n:m:s:Î t:ðst:Ø p:Øn:rÎ n:m::ðst:Ø. 517
I have received this glory of the sovereignty over myself and over
the world by the compassion of your grace, noble and greatsouled
guru. Salutation upon salutation to you, and again salutation. 517
m:hasv:pn:ð m:ay:akát:j:en:j:ram:àty:Øg:hn:ð
B:Òm:nt:ö eVl:Sy:nt:ö b:hÚl:t:rt:ap:òrÎ An:Øedn:m:Î
Ahökarvy:aG:Òvy:eT:t:m:Î Em:m:Î Aty:nt:káp:y:a
)b::ðDy: )sv:ap:at:Î p:rm:ev:t:v:an:Î m:am:Î Aes: g:Ør:ð. 518
You, my teacher, have my supreme saviour, waking me up from sleep
through your infinite compassion, lost in a vast dream as I was and
afflicted every day by countless troubles in the Mayacreated forest
of birth, old age and death, and tormented by the tiger of this
feeling myself the doer. 518
n:m:s:Î t:sm:ò s:dòksm:ò ksm:òec:n:Î m:hs:ð n:m:H
y:dÏ Ot:dÏ ev:Ã:-p:ðN: raj:t:ð g:Ø,raj: t:ð. 519
Salutation to you, King of gurus, who remain always the same in your
greatness. Salutation to you who are manifest as all this that we
see. 519
Eet: n:t:m:Î Av:l::ðVy: eS:\y:v:y:üö
s:m:eD:g:t:atm:s:ØK:ö )b:عt:¶v:m:Î
)m:Øedt:Ædy:ö s: dðeS:kñndÓH
p:Øn:rÎ Edm:Î A:h v:c:H p:rö m:hatm:a. 520
Seeing his noble disciple, who had achieved the joy of his true
nature in samadhi, who had awaken to the Truth, and experienced deep
inner contentment, kneeling thus before him, the best of teachers
and supreme great soul spoke again and said these words. 520
b:ÒÉ)ty:y:s:nt:et:rÎ j:g:dÏ At::ð b:ÒÉòv: t:ts:v:üt:H
p:Sy:aDy:atm:dáS:a )S:ant:m:n:s:a s:v:aüsv:Î Av:sT:asv:Î Aep:
-p:adÏ Any:dÏ Av:ðex:t:ö ekm:Î AeB:t:S:Î c:x:Ø\m:t:aö dáSy:t:ð
t:¾dÏ b:ÒÉev:dH s:t:H ekm:Î Ap:rö b:عðrÎ ev:haras:Î p:dm:Î. 521
The world is a sequence of experiences of God, so it is God that is
everything, and one should see this in all circumstances with inner
insight and a peaceful mind. What has ever been seen by sighted
people but forms, and in the same way what other resort is there for
a man of understanding but to know God? 521
kst:aö p:ran:ndrs:an:ØB:Üet:m:Î
?ts:àjy: S:Üny:ð\:Ø rm:ðt: ev:¾an:Î
c:ndÓð m:haÌaeden: dipy:m:an:ð
ec:*:ðndÙm:Î A:l::ðkey:t:Øö k EcCðt:Î. 522
What man of wisdom would abandon the experience of supreme bliss to
take pleasure in things with no substance? When the beautiful moon
iself is shining, who would want to look at just a painted moon? 522
As:tp:daT:aün:ØB:v:ðn: ekeWc:n:Î
n: Êest: t:àept:rÎ n: c: dÙHK:haen:H
t:d¾y:an:ndrs:an:ØB:Üty:a
t:àpt:H s:ØK:ö et:Å s:datm:en:Åy:a. 523
There is no satisfaction or elimination of suffering through the
experience of unreal things, so experience that nondual bliss and
remain happily content established in to your own true nature. 523
sv:m:Î Ov: s:v:üT:a p:Sy:n:Î m:ny:m:an:H sv:m:Î A¾y:m:Î
sv:an:ndm:Î An:ØB:ØWj:an:H kal:ö n:y: m:ham:t:ð. 524
Pass your time, noble one, in being aware of your true nature
everywhere, thinking of yourself as nondual, and enjoying the bliss
inherent in yourself. 524
AK:NRb::ðD:atm:en: en:ev:üklp:ð
ev:klp:n:ö vy::ðemn: p:Ør)klp:n:m:Î
t:d¾y:an:ndm:y:atm:n:a s:da
S:aent:ö p:ram:Î Oty: B:j:sv: m::òn:m:Î. 525
Imagining things about the unimaginable and indivisible nature of
awareness is building castles in the sky, so transcending this,
experience the surpreme peace of silence through your true nature
composed of that nondual bliss. 525
t:Ü\N:im:Î Av:sT:a p:rm::ðp:S:aent:H
b:عðrÎ As:tklp:ev:klp:hðt::ðH
b:ÒÉatm:n::ð b:ÒÉev:d:ð m:hatm:n::ð
y:*:a¾y:an:nds:ØK:ö en:rnt:rm:Î. 526
The ultimate tranquillity is the return to silence of the intellect,
since the intellect is the cause of false assumptions, and in this
peace the great souled man who knows God and who has become God
experiences the infinite joy of nondual bliss. 526
n:aest: en:v:aüs:n:an:Î m::òn:at:Î p:rö s:ØK:kádÙ¶:m:m:Î
ev:jW:at:atm:sv:-p:sy: sv:an:ndrs:p:aey:n:H. 527
For the man who has recognised his own nature and who is enjoying
the experience of inner bliss, there is nothing that gives him
greater satisfaction than the peace that comes from having no
desires. 527
g:cCös:Î et:ÅÀÎ up:ev:S:W:Î Cy:an::ð v:any:T:aep: v:a
y:T:ðcCy:a v:s:ðdÏ ev:¾an:Î A:tm:aram:H s:da m:Øen:H. 528
A wise and silent ascetic lives as he pleases finding his joy in
himself at all times whether walking, standing, sitting, lying down
or whatever. 528
n: dðS:kal:as:n:edgy:m:aed
l:xy:a½p:ðx:a)et:b:¹v:à¶:ðH
s:öes:¹t:¶v:sy: m:hatm:n::ðest:
sv:v:ðdn:ð ka en:y:m:a½v:sT:a. 529
The great soul who has come to know the Truth and whose mental
functions are not constrained has no concerns about such things as
his aims in matters of locality, time, posture, direction and
discipline etc. There can be no dependence on things like discipline
when one knows oneself. 529
G:X:ðy:m:Î Eet: ev:jW:at:Øö en:y:m:H k:ðnv:v:ðx:t:ð
ev:n:a )m:aN:s:ØÅÙtv:ö y:esm:n:Î s:et: p:daT:üD:iH. 530
What discipline is required to recognise that "This is a jar"? All
that is necessary is for the means of perception to be in good
condition, and if they are, one recognises the object. 530
Ay:m:Î A:tm:a en:ty:es:¹H )m:aN:ð s:et: B:as:t:ð
n: dðS:ö n:aep: kal:ö n: S:Øe¹ö v:apy:Î Ap:ðx:t:ð. 531
In the same way this true nature of ours is obvious if the means of
perception are present. It does not require a special place or time
or purification. 531
dðv:d¶::ðhm::ð ty:Î Ot:dÏ ev:jW:an:ö en:rp:ðx:km:Î
t:¾dÏ b:ÒÉev:d:ðpy:Î Asy: b:ÒÉahm:Î Eet: v:ðdn:m:Î. 532
There are no qualifications necessary to know ones own name, and the
same is true for the knower of Gods knowledge that "I am God. 532
B:an:Øn:ðv: j:g:t:Î s:v:üö B:as:t:ð y:sy: t:ðj:s:a
An:atm:km:Î As:t:Î t:ØcCö ekö n:Ø t:sy:av:B:as:km:Î. 533
How can something else, without substance, unreal and trivial,
illuminate that by whose great radiance the whole world is
illuminated? 533
v:ðdS:as*:p:ØraN:aen: B:Üt:aen: s:kl:any:Î Aep:
y:ðn:aT:üv:ent: t:ö ekn:Î n:Ø ev:jW:at:arö )kaS:y:ðt:Î. 534
What can illuminate that Knower by whom the Vedas, and other
scriptures as well as all creatures themselves are given meaning?
534
O\: sv:y:ö jy::ðet:rÎ An:nt:S:eVt:H
A:tm:a)m:ðy:H s:kl:an:ØB:Üet:H
y:m:Î Ov: ev:jW:ay: ev:m:ØVt:b:nD::ð
j:y:ty:Î Ay:ö b:ÒÉev:dÏ u¶:m::ð¶:m:H. 535
This light is within us, infinite in power, our true nature,
immeasurable and the comon experience of all. When a man free from
bonds comes to know it, this knower of God stands out supreme among
the supreme. 535
n: eK:½t:ð n::ð ev:\:y:òH )m::ðdt:ð
n: s:jj:t:ð n:aep: ev:rjy:t:ð c:
sv:esm:n:Î s:da #iRet: n:ndet: sv:y:ö
en:rnt:ran:ndrs:ðn: t:àpt:H. 536
He is neither upset nor pleased by the senses, nor is he attached to
or averse to them, but his sport is always within and his enjoyment
is in himself, satisfied with the enjoyment of infinite bliss. 536
x:ØD:aö dðhvy:T:aö ty:Vtv:a b:al:H #iRet: v:st:Øen:H
t:T:òv: ev:¾an:Î rm:t:ð en:m:üm::ð en:rhö s:ØK:i. 537
A child plays with a toy ignoring hunger and physical discomfort,
and in the same way a man of realisation is happy and contented free
from "me" and "mine". 537
ec:nt:aS:Üny:m:Î Adòny:B:òx:m:Î AS:n:ö p:an:ö s:er¾aer\:Ø
sv:at:n*y:ðN: en:rökÙS:aesT:et:rÎ AB:ien:üdÓa Sm:S:an:ð v:n:ð
v:s*:ö x:al:n:S::ð\:N:aedrÎ Aeht:ö edgv:ast:Ø S:yy:a m:hi
s:öc:ar:ð en:g:m:ant:v:ieT:\:Ø ev:daö #iRa p:rð b:ÒÉeN:. 538
Men of realisation live free from preoccupation, eating food begged
without humiliation, drinking the water of streams, living freely
and without constraint, sleeping in cemetery or forest, their
clothing space itself, which needs no care such as washing and
drying, the earth as their bed, following the paths of the
scriptures, and their sport in the supreme nature of God. 538
ev:m:an:m:Î A:l:mby: S:rirm:Î Ot:dÏ
B:Øn:Vty:Î AS:ð\:an:Î ev:\:y:an:Î up:esT:t:an:Î
p:rðcCy:a b:al:v:dÏ A:tm:v:ð¶:a
y::ðvy:Vt:el:¤:ðn:n:Ø\:Vt:b:aÊH. 539
He who knows himself, wears no distinguishing mark and is unattached
to the senses, and treats his body as a vehicle, experiencing the
various objects as they present themselves like a child dependent on
the wishes of others. 539
edg:mb:r:ð v:aep: c: s:amb:r:ð v:a
tv:g:mb:r:ð v:aep: ec:dmb:rsT:H
unm:¶:v:dÏ v:aep: c: b:al:v:dÏ v:a
ep:S:ac:v:dÏ v:aep: c:rty:Î Av:ny:am:Î. 540
He who is clothed in knowledge roams the earth freely, whether
dressed in space itself, properly dressed, or perhaps dressed in
skins, and whether in appearance a madman, a child or a ghost. 540
kam:an:Î en:\kam:-p:i s:öÁ:rty:Î Okc:ar:ð m:Øen:H
sv:atm:n:òv: s:da t:ØÄH sv:y:ö s:v:aütm:n:a esT:t:H. 541
The wise man lives as the embodiment of dispassion even amid
passions, he travels alone even in company, he is always satisfied
with his own true nature and established in himself as the self of
all. 541
Vv:ec:n:Î m:ÜZ:ð ev:¾an:Î Vv:ec:dÏ Aep: m:haraj:ev:B:v:H
Vv:ec:dÏ B:Òant:H s::òmy:H Vv:ec:dÏ Aj:g:rac:arkel:t:H
Vv:ec:t:Î p:a*:iB:Üt:H Vv:ec:dÏ Av:m:t:H Vv:apy:Î Aev:edt:H
c:rty:Î Ov:ö )ajW:H s:t:t:p:rm:an:nds:ØeK:t:H. 542
The wise man who is always enjoying supreme bliss lives like this
sometimes appearing a fool, sometimes a clever man, sometimes regal,
sometimes mad, sometimes gentle, sometimes venomous, sometimes
respected, sometimes despised, and sometimes simply unnoticed. 542
en:D:ün::ðep: s:da t:ØÄ:ðpy:Î As:hay::ð m:hab:l:H
en:ty:t:àpt::ðpy:Î AB:ØWj:an::ðpy:Î As:m:H s:m:dS:ün:H. 543
Even when poor always contented, even without assistance always
strong, always satisfied even without eating, without equal, but
looking on everything with an equal eye. 543
Aep: kÙv:üÀÎ AkÙv:aüN:S:Î c:aB::ðVt:a Pl:B::ðgy:Î Aep:
S:riy:Îü Apy:Î AS:riy:Îü O\: p:erecCÀ:ðep: s:v:üg:H. 544
This man is not acting even when acting, experiences the fruits of
past actions but is not the reaper of the consequences, with a body
and yet without a body, prescribed and yet present everywhere. 544
AS:rirö s:da s:nt:m:Î Em:ö b:ÒÉev:dö Vv:ec:t:Î
e)y:ae)y:ð n: sp:àS:t:s:Î t:T:òv: c: S:ØB:aS:ØB:ð. 545
Thoughts of pleasant and unpleasant as well as thoughts of good and
bad do not touch this knower of God who has no body and who is
always at peace. 545
sT:Ül:aeds:mb:nD:v:t::ðeB:m:aen:n:H
s:ØK:ö c: dÙHK:ö c: S:ØB:aS:ØB:ð c:
ev:Dv:st:b:nD:sy: s:datm:n::ð m:Øn:ðH
kÙt:H S:ØB:ö v:apy:Î AS:ØB:ö Pl:ö v:a. 546
Pleasure and pain and good and bad exist for him who identifies
himself with ideas of a physical body and so on. How can there be
good or bad consequences for the wise man who has brokened his bonds
and is one with Reality? 546
t:m:s:a g:Òst:v:dÏ B:an:adÏ Ag:Òst::ðep: rev:rÎ j:n:òH
g:Òst: Ety:Î ucy:t:ð B:Òanty:aö ÊÐ AjW:atv:a v:st:Øl:x:N:m:Î. 547
The sun appears to be swallowed up by the darkness in an eclipse and
is mistakenly called swallowed up by people through misunderstanding
of the nature of things. 547
t:¾dÏ dðhaedb:nD:ðBy::ð ev:m:ØVt:ö b:ÒÉev:¶:m:m:Î
p:Sy:ent: dðehv:n:Î m:ÜZaH S:riraB:as:dS:ün:at:Î. 548
In the same way the ignorant, see even the greatest knower of God,
though free from the bonds of the body and so on, as having a body
since they can still see what they recognise as a body. 548
AehrÎ en:lv:üy:n:iö v:ay:ö m:ØVtv:a dðhö t:Ø et:Ået:
Et:s:Î t:t:S:Î c:aly:m:an::ð y:t:Î ekeWc:t:Î )aN:v:ay:Øn:a. 549
Such a man remains free of the body, and moves here and there as
impelled by the winds of energy, like a snake that has cast its
skin. 549
s*::ðt:s:a n:iy:t:ð da, y:T:a en:mn::ðÀt:sT:l:m:Î
dòv:ðn: n:iy:t:ð dðh:ð y:T:akal::ðp:B:ØeVt:\:Ø. 550
Just as a piece of wood is carried high and low by a stream, so the
body is carried along by causality as the appropriate fruits of past
actions present themselves. 550
)arbD:km:üp:erkelp:t:v:as:n:aeB:H
s:ös:aerv:c:Î c:ret: B:ØeVt:\:Ø m:ØVt:dðhH
es:¹H sv:y:ö v:s:et: s:aex:v:dÏ A*: t:Ü\N:iö
c:#sy: m:Ül:m:Î Ev: klp:ev:klp:S:Üny:H. 551
The man free from identification with the body lives experiencing
the causal effects of previously entertained desires, just like the
man subject to samsara, but, being realised, he remains silently
within himself as the witness there, empty of further mental
imaginations like the axle of a wheel. 551
n:òv:ðendÓy:aeN: ev:\:y:ð\:Ø en:y:ØöVt: O\:
n:òv:ap:y:ØöVt: up:dS:ün:l:x:N:sT:H
n:òv: e#y:aPl:m:Î Ap:i\:dÏ Av:ðx:t:ð s:
sv:an:nds:andÓrs:p:an:s:Øm:¶:ec:¶:H. 552
He whose mind is intoxicated with the drink of the pure bliss of
selfknowledge does not turn the senses towards their objects, nor
does he turn them away from them, but remains as a simple spectator,
and regards the results of actions without the least concern. 552
l:xy:al:xy:g:et:ö ty:Vtv:a y:s:Î et:Åðt:Î kñv:l:atm:n:a
eS:v: Ov: sv:y:ö s:ax:adÏ Ay:ö b:ÒÉev:dÏ u¶:m:H. 553
He who has given up choosing one goal from another, and who remains
perfect in himself as the spectator of his own good fortune he is
the supreme knower of God. 553
j:iv:ÀÎ Ov: s:da m:ØVt:H kát:aT::ðü b:ÒÉev:¶:m:H
up:aeD:n:aS:adÏ b:ÒÉòv: s:n:Î b:ÒÉapy:Î Oet: en:¾üy:m:Î. 554
Liberated forever here and now, having achieved his purpose, the
perfect knower of God, being God himself by the destruction of all
false indentifications, goes to the nondual God. 554
S:òl:Ü\::ð v:ð\:s:»av:aB:av:y::ðS:Î c: y:T:a p:Øm:an:Î
t:T:òv: b:ÒÉev:c:Î CÕðÅH s:da b:ÒÉòv: n:ap:rH. 555
Just as an actor, whatever his costume may or may not be, is still a
man, so the best of men, the knower of God, is always God and
nothing else. 555
y:*: Vv:aep: ev:S:iN:üö s:t:Î p:N:üm:Î Ev: t:r:ðrÎ v:p:ØH p:t:t:at:Î
b:ÒÉiB:Üt:sy: y:t:ðH )ag:Î Ov: t:ecc:degn:n:a dgD:m:Î. 556
Wherever the body may wither and fall like a tree leaf, that of the
ascetic who has become God has already been cremated by the fire of
the knowledge of Reality. 556
s:datm:en: b:ÒÉeN: et:Åt::ð m:Øn:ðH
p:ÜN:aü¾y:an:ndm:y:atm:n:a s:da
n: dðS:kal:a½Øec:t:)t:ix:a
tv:¨aös:ev:eXÏp:NRev:s:j:ün:ay:. 557
There are no considerations of place and time laid down with regard
to relinquishing this mass of skin, flesh and filth for the wise man
who is already forever established in God within himself as the
perfect nondual bliss of his own nature. 557
dðhsy: m::ðx::ð n::ð m::ðx::ð n: dNRsy: km:NRl::ðH
Aev:½aÆdy:g:ÒenT:m::ðx::ð m::ðx::ð y:t:s:Î t:t:H. 558
Liberation is not just getting rid of the body, nor of ones staff or
bowl. Liberation is getting rid of all the knots of ignorance in the
heart. 558
kÙly:ay:am:Î AT: n:½aö v:a eS:v:x:ð*:ðep: c:tv:rð
p:N:üö p:t:et: c:ðt:Î t:ðn: t:r:ðH ekö n:Ø S:ØB:aS:ØB:m:Î. 559
Whether a leaf falls into a gutter or a river, into a shrine or onto
a crossroad, in what way is that good or bad for the tree? 559
p:*:sy: p:Ø\p:sy: Pl:sy: n:aS:v:dÏ
dðhðendÓy:)aN:eD:y:aö ev:n:aS:H
n:òv:atm:n:H sv:sy: s:datm:ksy:Î
A:n:ndakát:ðrÎ v:àx:v:dÏ Aest: c:ò\:H. 560
The destruction of body, organs, vitality and intellect is like the
destruction of a leaf, a flower or a fruit. It is not the
destruction of oneself, but of something which is not the cause of
happiness for ones true self. That remains like the tree. 560
)jW:an:G:n: Ety:Î A:tm:l:x:N:ö s:ty:s:Üc:km:Î
An:ܽ:òp:aeD:ksy:òv: kT:y:ent: ev:n:aS:n:m:Î. 561
The scriptures that teach the truth declare that the property of
ones true nature is "a mass of intelligence" (Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad 4.5.13), and they talk of the destruction of secondary
additional attributes only. 561
Aev:n:aS:i v:a Arðy:m:Î A:tm:ðet: Â:Øet:rÎ A:tm:n:H
)b:Òv:ity:Î Aev:n:aeS:tv:ö ev:n:Sy:ts:Ø ev:kaer\:Ø. 562
The scripture declares of the true self that "This Self is truly
imperishable" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.5.14), the indestructible
reality in the midst of changing things subject to destruction. 562
p:a\:aN:v:àx:t:àN:D:any:kXamb:ra½a
dgD:a B:v:ent: eh m:àdÏ Ov: y:T:a t:T:òv:
dðhðendÓy:as:Øm:n: A:ed s:m:st:dáSy:ö
jW:an:aegn:dgD:m:Î up:y:aet: p:ratm:B:av:m:Î. 563
In the same way that burnt stones, trees, grass, rice, straw, cloth
and so on turn to earth, so what we see here in the form of body,
organs, vitality, mind and so on when burned by the fire of
knowledge take on the nature of God. 563
ev:l:x:N:ö y:T:a Dv:ant:ö l:iy:t:ð B:an:Øt:ðj:es:
t:T:òv: s:kl:ö dáSy:ö b:ÒÉeN: )ev:l:iy:t:ð. 564
Just as darkness, though distinct from it, disappears in the light
of the sun, so all that we can see disappears in God. 564
G:Xð n:Äð y:T:a vy::ðm: vy::ðm:òv: B:v:et: sPÙXm:Î
t:T:òv::ðp:aeD:ev:l:y:ð b:ÒÉòv: b:ÒÉev:t:Î sv:y:m:Î. 565
Just as when a jar is broken the space in it becomes manifest as
space again, so the knower of God becomes the God in himself with
the elimination of false identifications. 565
x:irö x:irð y:T:a ex:pt:ö t:òl:ö t:òl:ð j:l:ö j:l:ð
s:öy:ØVt:m:Î Okt:aö y:aet: t:T:atm:ny:Î A:tm:ev:n:Î m:Øen:H. 566
Like milk poured into milk, oil into oil and water into water, so
the ascetic who knows himself becomes united with the One in
himself. 566
Ov:ö ev:dðhkóv:ly:ö s:nm:a*:tv:m:Î AK:eNRt:m:Î
b:ÒÉB:av:ö )p:½ò\: y:et:rÎ n:av:t:üt:ð p:Øn:H. 567
The ascetic who has thus achieved the nature of God, perfectly free
of the body and with the indivisible nature of Reality, does not
come back again. 567
s:datm:òktv:ev:jW:an:dgD:aev:½aedv:\m:üN:H
Am:Ø\y: b:ÒÉB:Üt:tv:adÏ b:ÒÉN:H kÙt: u»v:H. 568
How could the brahmin come back again after becoming God when his
external features of ignorance and so on have been burned by the
recognition of his oneness with the Truth? 568
m:ay:aVl:àpt::ò b:nD:m::ðx::ò n: st:H sv:atm:en: v:st:Øt:H
y:T:a rjj::ò en:e\#y:ay:aö s:p:aüB:as:ev:en:g:üm::ò. 569
The Mayaproduced alternatives of bondage and liberation do not
really exist in ones true nature, just as the alternatives of there
being a snake or not do not exist in the rope which is not affected
by them. 569
A:v:àt:ðH s:ds:¶v:aBy:aö v:Vt:vy:ð b:nD:m::ðx:N:ð
n:av:àet:rÎ b:ÒÉN:H kaec:dÏ Any:aB:av:adÏ An:av:àt:m:Î
y:½Î Asty:Î A¾òt:haen:H sy:adÏ ¾òt:ö n::ð s:ht:ð Â:Øet:H. 570
Bondage and liberation can be referred to only in connection with
the existence or absence of something covering what is really there,
but there can be no covering of God as there is nothing else and no
covering, since this would destroy the nonduality of God, and the
scriptures do not admit duality. 570
b:nD:W:Î c: m::ðx:W:Î c: m:à\:òv: m:ÜZa
b:عðrÎ g:ØN:ö v:st:Øen: klp:y:ent:
dág:av:àet:ö m:ðG:kát:aö y:T:a rv::ò
y:t::ð¾y:as:¤ec:dÏ Ot:dÏ Ax:rm:Î. 571
Bondage and liberation are unreal. They are an effect of the
intellect which the stupid identify with reality just like the
covering of the sight caused by a cloud is applied to the sun. For
this imperishable Reality is nondual, unattached and consciousness.
571
Ast:iet: )ty:y::ð y:S:Î c: y:S:Î c: n:ast:iet: v:st:Øen:
b:عðrÎ Ov: g:ØN:av:Î Ot::ò n: t:Ø en:ty:sy: v:st:Øn:H. 572
The opinion that this covering exists or does not exist in the
underlying reality is an attribute of the intellect and not of the
eternal reality underneath. 572
At:s:Î t::ò m:ay:y:a Vl:àpt::ò b:nD:m::ðx::ò n: c:atm:en:
en:\kl:ð en:e\#y:ð S:ant:ð en:rv:½ð en:rWj:n:ð
Ae¾t:iy:ð p:rð t:¶v:ð vy::ðm:v:t:Î klp:n:a kÙt:H. 573
So these alternatives of bondage and liberation are produced by Maya
and not in ones true nature. How can there be the idea of them in
the nondual supreme Truth which is without parts, actionless,
peaceful, indestructible, and without blemish, like space? 573
n: en:r:ðD::ð n: c::ðtp:e¶:rÎ n: b:¹:ð n: c: s:aD:kH
n: m:Øm:Øx:ØrÎ n: v:ò m:ØVt: Ety:Î O\:a p:rm:aT:üt:a. 574
There is neither end nor beginning, no one in bondage and no
aspirant, no one seeking liberation and no one free. (Amritabindu
Upanishad 10). This is the supreme truth. 574
s:kl:en:g:m:c:ÜRasv:ant:es:¹ant:-p:ö
p:rm:Î Edm:Î Aet:g:ØÊö deS:üt:ö t:ð m:y:a½
Ap:g:t:kel:d:ð\:ö kam:en:m:ØüVt:b:Øe¹ö
sv:s:Øt:v:dÏ As:ká¶v:aö B:aevy:tv:a m:Øm:Øx:Øm:Î. 575
I have shown you today repeatedly, as my own son, this ultimate
secret, the supreme crest of the scriptures and of the complete
Vedanta, considering you one seeking liberation, free from the
stains of this dark time, and with a mind free from sensuality. 575
Eet: Â:Øtv:a g:Ør:ðrÎ v:aVy:ö )Â:y:ðN: kát:an:et:H
s: t:ðn: s:m:n:ØjW:at::ð y:y::ò en:m:ØüVt:b:nD:n:H. 576
On hearing these words of his guru the disciple prostrated himself
before him and with his permission went away free from bondage. 576
g:Ø,rÎ Ov: s:dan:ndes:nD::ò en:m:ügn:m:an:s:H
p:av:y:n:Î v:s:ØD:aö s:v:aüö ev:c:c:ar en:rnt:rH. 577
The guru too with his mind immersed in the ocean of Truth and Bliss,
and with his mind free of discriminations went on his way purifying
the whole world. 577
Ety:Î A:c:ay:üsy: eS:\y:sy: s:öv:adðn:atm:l:x:N:m:Î
en:-ep:t:ö m:Øm:Øx:ÜN:aö s:ØK:b::ðD::ðp:p:¶:y:ð. 578
In this way, in the form of a dialogue between teacher and pupil,
the nature of ones true self has been taught for easy attainment of
the joy of Realisation by those seeking liberation. 578
eht:m:Î Edm:Î up:dðS:m:Î A:edÓy:nt:aö
ev:eht:en:rst:s:m:st:ec:¶:d:ð\:aH
B:v:s:ØK:ev:rt:aH )S:ant:ec:¶:aH
Â:Øet:res:ka y:t:y::ð m:Øm:Øx:v::ð y:ð. 579
May those ascetics who have removed all defilements of mind by the
designated methods, whose minds are at peace and free from the
pleasures of the world, and who delight in the scriptures, reverence
this teaching. 579
s:ös:araDv:en: t:ap:B:an:ØekrN:):ð»Üt:dahvy:T:a
eK:Àan:aö j:l:kaöx:y:a m:,B:Øev: B:Òanty:a p:erB:Òamy:t:am:Î
Aty:as:Às:ØD:am:Î b:ØeD:ö s:ØK:krö b:ÒÉa¾y:ö dS:üy:ty:Î
O\:a S:¢rB:art:i ev:j:y:t:ð en:v:aüN:s:ödaey:n:i. 580
For those who are suffering in samsara from the heat of the
threefold forms of pain, and wandering in delusion in a desert
thirsting for water, may these words of Shankara which secure
nirvana and excel all others, procure for them the ocean of nectar
close by in the form of the nondual God. 580
The End
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