Vivek Chudamani

SR No.: 007022
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

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VIVEKACŪDAMANI
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lokānuvartanam tyaktvä tyaktvā dehänuvartanam | śāstrānuvartanam tyaktvā svādhyāsāpanayam kuru 11
Relinquishing the habit of following the world, of pandering to the body and of sticking to scripture, accomplish the destruction of super-imposition which characterises you.
lokānuvartanam: following the ways of the world; vide in the Sadhanapāñcaka: janakṛpānaiṣṭhuryamutsṛjyatām. Be indifferent to the sympathies and the antipathies of men.
dehānuvartanam: Vide in the Sadhanapañcaka: dehe ahammatistyajyatām: give up the sense of the 'I' in the body.
śāstrānuvartanam tyaktvā: giving up the reading etc., of books other than those which will be useful to the attainment of liberation. Or, in accordance with the instruction: drdhataram karma āsu samtyajyatām: (Sadhanapañcaka). Let all karmas be firmly and completely renounced; śāstra may mean books relating to Karmaśāstra.
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The why of it is explained.
लोकवासनया जन्तोः शास्त्रवासनयापि च । देहवासनया ज्ञानं यथावन्नैव जायते ।। २७२ ॥
lokavāsanaya jantoḥ śāstravasanayāpi ca dehavāsanayā jñānam yathāvannaiva jāyate ||
True wisdom never arises to a person who acts in consonance with what the people of the world will say or to a person who is concerned about his knowledge of the śāstras or who is subject to delusion about his body.
lokavāsanā: Being intent on the idea: 'I shall always act in such a way that men do not censure me, but praise me.' This vāsanā is a great obstruction as no one can abide by it. This has been elaborated at length by Sri Vidyāraṇyasvāmin in the section dealing with Vasanākṣaya in his work entitled 'Jivanmukti Viveka'. He says: ko lokamārādhayitum samarthaḥ? Who is expert in