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
281 The manner of it is explained. नाहं जीवः परं ब्रह्मत्येत व्यावृत्तिपूर्वकम् ।
वासनावेगतः प्राप्तस्वाध्यासापनयं कुरु ॥२८१॥ näham jīvaḥ param brahmetyetadvyāvșttipūrvakami vāsanāvegataḥ prāptasvādhyāsāpanayam kuru 11.
Preceded by the elimination (of the jiva) as 'I am not the jīva, but the supreme Brahman,' get rid of your superimposition wrought by the force of the vāsanās. näham hvah: I am not the jiva. param brahma: (I am) the Supreme Brahman.
na tat: atat: what is different from Brahman. Distinguishshing yourself from everything which is not Brahman like the intellect, the mind, the breath, the body etc. Vide: näham deho nendriyāṇyantarangam nähamkāraḥ prāņavargo na buddhiḥ 11 dārāpatyakşetravittādidūraḥ sākşi nityaḥ pratyagātmā śivo'hamil (Śrī Samkara: Advaitāștakam). "I am not the body, not the inner organs, not the ahamkāra, nor the series of breaths; not the intellect. I am far from the wife, the sons and wealth; I am the eternal witness, the inner ātman, of the nature of Śiva, ever auspicious."
ninating all these, get rid of all super-impositions wrought earlier by the force of vāsanās.
Or, by the word vāsanā may be understood the anātmavāsanās (i.e., the wrong identification of the ātman with the anātman which are operating from time without beginning). By the elimination of what is not the ātman and by continuous contemplation of 'I am Brahman', remove your super-imposition which resulted by the power of the anātmavāsanās.
282 श्रुत्या युक्त्या स्वानुभूत्या ज्ञात्वा सार्वात्म्यमात्मनः । क्वचिदाभासतः प्राप्तस्वाध्यासापनयं कुरु ॥२८२॥
Śrutyā yuktyā svānubhūtyā jñātvā sārvātmyam åtmanaḥ, kvacid ābhāsatah prāptasvādhyāsāpanayam kurull
Understanding the universality of the ātman by śruti, by reasoning and by your own realisation, effect the removal of your super-imposition which appears anywhere by the reflection (of the caitanya).