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VIVEKACUDAMANI
That (Supreme Reality) is known, then there is no place for duality". The entire universe being thus mithya, the body, the senses, the breath, the ahaṁkāra etc., which you previously identified with the ātman, being subject to sublation, are all mithya. So, as before, it is repeated, Thou art the peaceful, defectless, non-dual supreme Brahman.
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For continuous meditation on Brahman as indicated in śruti, the guru explains the truth about Brahman in ten verses and intimates the identity between the jīva and Brahman.
जातिनीतिकुलगोत्र दूरगं नामरूपगुणदोषवजितम् ।
देशकालविषयातिर्वात यत् ब्रह्म तत्त्वमसि भावयात्मनि ।। २५५ ।। jātinātikulagotradūragam nāmarūpaguṇadoṣavarjitam | deśakālaviṣayātivarti yat brahma tattvamasi bhāvayātmani ||
Meditate in your mind that you are that Brahman which is far from caste and family and lineage, which is free from the limitations of name and form and is beyond space, time and objects of sense.
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jātinātikulagotradūragam: jāti: castes like Brāhmaṇa etc., nitiḥ: established proper order; kula: race or family. Brahman transcends the distinctions of castes like Brāhmaṇa etc., of family, of gotra etc., as they pertain to the gross and the subtle bodies. Vide the Mundaka text: yattadadreśyam agrāhyam agotram avarnam.
nāmarūpaguṇadosavarjitam: vide the Śruti: 'ākāśo ha vai nāma namarupayornirvahita te yadantara tad brahma' and 'kevalo nirgunaśca' (Chand.). The ca in the second text: 'nirguņaśca' indicates that it is also 'nirdoșa' free from any taint.
The word 'ananta' in the śruti ‘satyam jñānamanantam brahma' shows that It (Brahman) is devoid of the three kinds of paricchedas or limitations pertaining to deśa, (place), kāla (time), and vastu (other objects). Brahman transcends deśa, kāla and viṣaya. Hence It is said to be 'deśakālavişayativarti'. Thou art that Brahman which is like this. Mèditate on That in thy intellect as identical with thyself.
atmani: buddhau: in the intellect.
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यत्परं सकलवागगोचरं गोचरं विमलबोधचक्षुषः ।
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| SR No. | 007022 |
| Book Title | Vivek Chudamani |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chandrashekhar Bharti Swami, P Sankaranarayan |
| Publisher | Bharatiya Vidyabhavan |
| Publication Year | 1988 |
| Total Pages | 552 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 14 MB |