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ANALYSIS OF VIVEKACODAMAŅI
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appears due to prārabdha, one should lead one's days in the contemplation of its adhisthāna, Brahman (321).
Warning to a Brahmanistha against negligence (pramāda), said to be death itself (322)—greatest evil for jñānī, negligence causes delusion which breeds ahamkāra which in turn causes bondage (323)-affects even a wise man (324-325)—the successive degradations of one who yields to pramāda (326-328)-advice to śişya to avoid it and be for ever constant in uninterrupted contemplation of the ātman (329).
Warning against perception of difference and looking on the 'seen' as the ātman (330-333-duty of a samnyasin: to be for ever established in the contemplation of Brahman to the exclusion of everything external (334-335)—the steps of the progressive ascent to mukti when the sense for the external is controlled (336)—a man of viveka will shrink from yielding to the external which is nonreal (337)-attachment to body etc. and mukti cannot co-exist
(338).
Description of the mukta: sees his ātman as the substratum of everything inside and outside, is free from all upādhis, has the plenal experience of infinitude (339)-sarvātmabhāva, the means to liberation and cause of non-apprehension of the 'seen' (340-341)śruti in support of this (342) -and yukti (343)
Repetition of warning against vikşepa-sakti and its cause, āvaraņa-sakti (344-347)-samyakpadārtha-darśana, the means to get over the three: āvaráņa, vikṣepa and the grief caused by it (348349).
Samyagdarśana: the conviction that everything other than the ātman is mithyā (350-351)-ātmadarśana: what it is and when it
es (352-356)-attained in nirvikalpa-samādhi (357-358)-bhramarakitanyāya applied to prove that nididhyāsana brings about Brahmabhāva (359-360)—the supreme Brahman is beyond gross perception, available only to the purified intellect, when by abhyasa everything external has been eliminated in nirvikalpa-samadhi (361-367).
The means to nirvikalpa-samādhi, the steps to it (368-371) importance of vairāgya and viveka (372-374)—nature of akhandākāravștti (375-379).
Restatement of what has been said so far on ātmanişthā (380393).