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The liberated men of great wisdom endowed with pure vaasana-s are said to have understood what is to be known and do not again subject themselves to the pangs of rebirth.
There is here but one Self who is of the nature of undivided Consciousness. There is nothing else. He is bound by his own thoughts; free from ideation, he is liberated.
The thinning of vaasana-s (the impressions left on the mind by past good and bad actions which produce pleasure and pain) is called liberation by the wise. The firmness of such impressions of objects is called bondage.
It is only the one endowed with tranquility that shines among ascetics, people possessed of great knowledge, men who do sacrifices, kings, the strong and those rich in virtues.
The existence of the Seer and the Seen is indeed called bondage. The Seer is bound by the influence of the Seen. He is liberated in the absence of the Seen.
Who, though acting among the entire collection of objects, is cool and contented as if (he were acting) among the properties of others, he is said to be liberated while living.
In the ocean of worldly existence, there is no refuge other than the conquest of the mind. As long as the mind is not conquered by the firm practice of the one Truth (or Reality), so long do the night-ghosts of imagination dance in the heart.
The desire of enjoyment is only bondage. The renunciation of that is called liberation. The rising of the mind is called destruction. The destruction of the mind is great elevation (or beatitude)
Let him perform or not perform either action or Yogic absorption (into undivided Being-Consciousness. He in whom all prop (or support) has vanished with the mind, is indeed liberated and (has attained to) the highest abode.
Excepting self-effort, neither fate nor action (or effort), nor wealth nor kinsmen are the refuge of men frightened by worldly existence.
He who is not assailed (or polluted) within by considerations (or views) of exultation, jealousy, fear, anger, desire and wretchedness is said to be liberated while living.
Liberation (or final emancipation from transmigratory experience) is not on the other side of the sky, nor in the nether world nor on the surface of the earth. The destruction of the (thinking) mind on the termination of all desires is regarded as liberation.
He does not await (or think of) the future. He does not rest on (or depend on) the present; nor does he remember (with regret) the past. But he does quite everything.
The existence of the mind is for misery (ie., productive of sorrow). The destruction of the mind is for happiness (ie., productive of happiness). Leading the reality of the mind to decay, let one bring on the destruction of the mind.
They consider his mind as "Lost (or destroyed) whom states of happiness and misery, misfortune, pride, dullness and jubilation do not lead to difference in nature (or outlook)
The one who is not dull, whose bliss has dropped, who has renounced knowing(or experiencing) and is at ease, shall cross over the farther shore of the ocean of sorrow, (wherein lies) the inexhaustible sea of excellence.
Attachment is the cause of objects (or affairs). Attachment is the cause of worldly existence. Attachment is the cause of hopes (or desires). Attachment is the cause of calamities.
To one whose mind is indifferent to enjoyments, who has satisfaction which is cool and stainless, and whose snare consisting of chains of hopes has been cut, the delusion of the mind is destroyed.
One who has burnt the seed of mental impressions and has the nature of generality (or totality) of existence will not be unhappy again whether he is with the body or without the body.
The world consists of multitude of sorrows to the ignorant. To the wise the world is full of Bliss. The world is dark to the blind; but bright to the one with eyes.
Having abandoned the thought (or contemplation) of objects of sense (or the pleasures of the senses) by manly effort and having resorted to Being (or Existence) which is whole (or full), the ego can be dissolved.
Having renounced all desires, with all distinctions extinguished, one who has arrived at complete absence of voluntary possessions, he can become one whose ego has subsided.
Creation (or the world) is only of the nature of the movement of Pure Consciousness. It vanishes on (the arrival of) right perception (or right knowledge)
On account of withdrawal within (or into the core of one's being), if what is perceived (or known) is not conceived (or imagined), one is surely liberated and without doubt, by virtue of that state of supreme equality (or identity with the Supreme Spirit).
A person devoid of the notion of 'I' and the like, whether he is engaged in work or tranquil, is a house holder or an ascetic, is with or without the (limitations of the) body, becomes endowed with such understanding as this: "I am pure, enlightened, undecaying, immortal, calm, identical with all-pervading luster." Thus regarding he does not grieve.
That object which is pursued with firmly rooted desire (or bound by mental impression created by past experience) pleases a person. But that object itself, which was the cause of pleasure, quickly becomes the cause of sorrow on account of its destruction.
All the arts (or skills) of a living being perish by the absence of practice. But this art of knowledge, once arisen (or engendered) within, grows every day quite strongly, like the seed sown in good soil.
The state of liberation while living
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By whatsoever he is clothed, by whatsoever he is fed, and wheresoever sleeping, he shines like an Emperor.
He is one who has renounced the fruits of actions, ever satisfied and devoid of support (or dependence). He is not tainted by good or evil (or meritorious acts or sin) or also by others.
As a crystal does not obtain colouring by a reflected image (ie., by reflecting a coloured object) so, the knower of that (Reality) does not attain to pleasure (or gratification) within, by the fruit of actions.
He may be without hymns of praise of deities, destitute of worship or object to be worshipped, without change, and endowed with, as well as bereft of, the proper manner of all behaviour.
This alone is his peculiarity; he is not equal to people with dull intelligence. By the complete renunciation of prop (or support) everywhere, his mind is devoid of passion and stainless.
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All living beings arrive without cause from the Supreme Abode. Then their own actions become the cause of happiness and sorrow.
The existence of the mind is the greatest misery. The destruction of the mind is highest bliss. The established view (or settled doctrine) of the scriptures concerning the Self (or the Supreme Spirit) is only the denial of everything (cognized by the mind).
In the sky of pure consciousness which is only calm, in that Supreme Spirit designated as Brahman, some people ascertaining (or fixing) the state of voidness, certain others, the state of mere knowledge (derived from worldly experience) and some others, the state of the form of God, quarrel mutually. Renouncing quite everything, become one observing the great silence.
"Let this be mine" - such knowledge is called imagination. Absence of thought of any object is called the renunciation of imagination.
Know memory as imagination. Absence of (the limitations of) memory is known as beatitude (or bliss). Forgetting quite everything immediately, be like a stupefied person or a log of wood.
What is the use of many words? This is declared briefly (thus): Imagination is the greatest bondage. Its absence is the state of freedom.
There is One Reality which is blissful, all-pervading, calm, of the nature of knowledge, unborn, shining. Meditating on that alone is considered as renunciation of action.
The world is brought into existence from spiritual ignorance. There is not even a little Reality here. Learned men discuss about it. The non-discriminating quarrel about it. There is nothing which is different from Pure Consciousness. This world is an event of a dream.
The differences have spiritual ignorance as their origin. All of them, rising up for a moment like bubbles, are dissolved in the one ocean of knowledge.
You resort to that with form until such time the mind is clear (or pure). Then there comes the spontaneous abidance in the Supreme (or transcendental) Principle which is without form.
Seated for a moment undejected, look at the drama of worldly existence and contemplate on the Self which is pure and is deep (or uninterrupted) Consciousness-Bliss. If you remain thus always, you have crossed the ocean of worldly existence.
As long as the recollection (or consideration) of the world, of a Yogin, is not drawn out (or purged), so long the stainless state of developed samaadhi (or absorption in the Pure Undifferentiated Consciousness) does not arise at all.
Salutations to that, of the nature of Brahman (or Supreme Spirit) which is indeed uttered clearly by the Sruti (or the veda) in the Saaman division as "All this (universe) is verily Brahman (or the Supreme Spirit). From that do all things originate, into that do they dissolve and by that are they sustained.
There is here but one Self who is of the nature of undivided Consciousness. There is nothing else. He is bound by his own thoughts; free from ideation, he is liberated.
The thinning of vaasana-s (the impressions left on the mind by past good and bad actions which produce pleasure and pain) is called liberation by the wise. The firmness of such impressions of objects is called bondage.
It is only the one endowed with tranquility that shines among ascetics, people possessed of great knowledge, men who do sacrifices, kings, the strong and those rich in virtues.
The existence of the Seer and the Seen is indeed called bondage. The Seer is bound by the influence of the Seen. He is liberated in the absence of the Seen.
Who, though acting among the entire collection of objects, is cool and contented as if (he were acting) among the properties of others, he is said to be liberated while living.
In the ocean of worldly existence, there is no refuge other than the conquest of the mind. As long as the mind is not conquered by the firm practice of the one Truth (or Reality), so long do the night-ghosts of imagination dance in the heart.
The desire of enjoyment is only bondage. The renunciation of that is called liberation. The rising of the mind is called destruction. The destruction of the mind is great elevation (or beatitude)
Let him perform or not perform either action or Yogic absorption (into undivided Being-Consciousness. He in whom all prop (or support) has vanished with the mind, is indeed liberated and (has attained to) the highest abode.
Excepting self-effort, neither fate nor action (or effort), nor wealth nor kinsmen are the refuge of men frightened by worldly existence.
He who is not assailed (or polluted) within by considerations (or views) of exultation, jealousy, fear, anger, desire and wretchedness is said to be liberated while living.
Liberation (or final emancipation from transmigratory experience) is not on the other side of the sky, nor in the nether world nor on the surface of the earth. The destruction of the (thinking) mind on the termination of all desires is regarded as liberation.
He does not await (or think of) the future. He does not rest on (or depend on) the present; nor does he remember (with regret) the past. But he does quite everything.
The existence of the mind is for misery (ie., productive of sorrow). The destruction of the mind is for happiness (ie., productive of happiness). Leading the reality of the mind to decay, let one bring on the destruction of the mind.
They consider his mind as "Lost (or destroyed) whom states of happiness and misery, misfortune, pride, dullness and jubilation do not lead to difference in nature (or outlook)
The one who is not dull, whose bliss has dropped, who has renounced knowing(or experiencing) and is at ease, shall cross over the farther shore of the ocean of sorrow, (wherein lies) the inexhaustible sea of excellence.
Attachment is the cause of objects (or affairs). Attachment is the cause of worldly existence. Attachment is the cause of hopes (or desires). Attachment is the cause of calamities.
To one whose mind is indifferent to enjoyments, who has satisfaction which is cool and stainless, and whose snare consisting of chains of hopes has been cut, the delusion of the mind is destroyed.
One who has burnt the seed of mental impressions and has the nature of generality (or totality) of existence will not be unhappy again whether he is with the body or without the body.
The world consists of multitude of sorrows to the ignorant. To the wise the world is full of Bliss. The world is dark to the blind; but bright to the one with eyes.
Having abandoned the thought (or contemplation) of objects of sense (or the pleasures of the senses) by manly effort and having resorted to Being (or Existence) which is whole (or full), the ego can be dissolved.
Having renounced all desires, with all distinctions extinguished, one who has arrived at complete absence of voluntary possessions, he can become one whose ego has subsided.
Creation (or the world) is only of the nature of the movement of Pure Consciousness. It vanishes on (the arrival of) right perception (or right knowledge)
On account of withdrawal within (or into the core of one's being), if what is perceived (or known) is not conceived (or imagined), one is surely liberated and without doubt, by virtue of that state of supreme equality (or identity with the Supreme Spirit).
A person devoid of the notion of 'I' and the like, whether he is engaged in work or tranquil, is a house holder or an ascetic, is with or without the (limitations of the) body, becomes endowed with such understanding as this: "I am pure, enlightened, undecaying, immortal, calm, identical with all-pervading luster." Thus regarding he does not grieve.
That object which is pursued with firmly rooted desire (or bound by mental impression created by past experience) pleases a person. But that object itself, which was the cause of pleasure, quickly becomes the cause of sorrow on account of its destruction.
All the arts (or skills) of a living being perish by the absence of practice. But this art of knowledge, once arisen (or engendered) within, grows every day quite strongly, like the seed sown in good soil.
The state of liberation while living
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By whatsoever he is clothed, by whatsoever he is fed, and wheresoever sleeping, he shines like an Emperor.
He is one who has renounced the fruits of actions, ever satisfied and devoid of support (or dependence). He is not tainted by good or evil (or meritorious acts or sin) or also by others.
As a crystal does not obtain colouring by a reflected image (ie., by reflecting a coloured object) so, the knower of that (Reality) does not attain to pleasure (or gratification) within, by the fruit of actions.
He may be without hymns of praise of deities, destitute of worship or object to be worshipped, without change, and endowed with, as well as bereft of, the proper manner of all behaviour.
This alone is his peculiarity; he is not equal to people with dull intelligence. By the complete renunciation of prop (or support) everywhere, his mind is devoid of passion and stainless.
-----
All living beings arrive without cause from the Supreme Abode. Then their own actions become the cause of happiness and sorrow.
The existence of the mind is the greatest misery. The destruction of the mind is highest bliss. The established view (or settled doctrine) of the scriptures concerning the Self (or the Supreme Spirit) is only the denial of everything (cognized by the mind).
In the sky of pure consciousness which is only calm, in that Supreme Spirit designated as Brahman, some people ascertaining (or fixing) the state of voidness, certain others, the state of mere knowledge (derived from worldly experience) and some others, the state of the form of God, quarrel mutually. Renouncing quite everything, become one observing the great silence.
"Let this be mine" - such knowledge is called imagination. Absence of thought of any object is called the renunciation of imagination.
Know memory as imagination. Absence of (the limitations of) memory is known as beatitude (or bliss). Forgetting quite everything immediately, be like a stupefied person or a log of wood.
What is the use of many words? This is declared briefly (thus): Imagination is the greatest bondage. Its absence is the state of freedom.
There is One Reality which is blissful, all-pervading, calm, of the nature of knowledge, unborn, shining. Meditating on that alone is considered as renunciation of action.
The world is brought into existence from spiritual ignorance. There is not even a little Reality here. Learned men discuss about it. The non-discriminating quarrel about it. There is nothing which is different from Pure Consciousness. This world is an event of a dream.
The differences have spiritual ignorance as their origin. All of them, rising up for a moment like bubbles, are dissolved in the one ocean of knowledge.
You resort to that with form until such time the mind is clear (or pure). Then there comes the spontaneous abidance in the Supreme (or transcendental) Principle which is without form.
Seated for a moment undejected, look at the drama of worldly existence and contemplate on the Self which is pure and is deep (or uninterrupted) Consciousness-Bliss. If you remain thus always, you have crossed the ocean of worldly existence.
As long as the recollection (or consideration) of the world, of a Yogin, is not drawn out (or purged), so long the stainless state of developed samaadhi (or absorption in the Pure Undifferentiated Consciousness) does not arise at all.
Salutations to that, of the nature of Brahman (or Supreme Spirit) which is indeed uttered clearly by the Sruti (or the veda) in the Saaman division as "All this (universe) is verily Brahman (or the Supreme Spirit). From that do all things originate, into that do they dissolve and by that are they sustained.