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Jñānasāra
Meaning : What is the benefit of that worldly happiness which has been reduced to ashes by the fire of excessive fear ? Always that happiness which is born of knowledge devoid of fright is superior. (2) [130]
Notes : Even if there is the least modicum of fear, the worldly happiness, howsoever great, is nothing. Correct knowledge is the only happiness but only if it is unaccompanied with fear, Fear is a drop of acid polluting the milk of happiness. (2) (130 ]
न गोणं क्यापि नारोप्यं हेयं देयं च न क्वचित् । क्व भयेन मुनेः स्थेयं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानेन पश्यतः ॥३॥ ॥१३॥
na gopyam kvāpi nāropyam
heyam deyam ca na kvaciti kva bhayena muneh stheyam
jñeyam jñānena paśyataḥ 113111113111
Meaning: A monk looking through knowledge what is to be known has nothing to protect, to deposit, to abandon, and to give. Why should he, then, entertain fear ? (3) [131]
Notes : A monk who knows the knowable through the medium of his knowledge has nothing whatsoever to be afraid of. He is the dauntless sovereign monarch. (3) [131]
एकं ब्रह्मास्त्रमादाय निघ्नन् मोहचमं मुनिः । बिभेति नैव संग्रामशीर्षस्थ इव नागराट् ॥४॥ ॥१३२।।
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