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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VIVEKACUDAMANI
The mark of a jivanmukta is seeing with an equal eye all this of the world which by nature is very peculiar, being endowed with good and evil qualities.
Sokam ahilam iti the belief that it is nie as he does,
Because they are endowed with good and evil qualities, they are, by nature, peculiar. In the Atma Vidyā Vilāsa, Sri Sadāśivendra says: na nişedhati doşadhiyā guņabuddhyā vā na küñcidādatte ävidyakam ahilam iti jñātvā-udāste yatih ko'pi in "A yati does not reject anything in the belief that it is evil, nor does he accept anything in the belief that it is good, knowing, as he does, that everything is the product of avidyā”. Accordingly, samadarśitva is, being without rejection or acceptance.
Or, samadarsitva may mean seeing Brahman everywhere according to the smrti: nirdosam hi samam brahma (B. G.): "The Brahman is without blemish, the same everywhere”.
435 इष्टानिष्टार्थसंप्राप्तौ समदर्शितयाऽऽत्मनि ।
उभयत्राविकारित्वं जीवन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् ॥४३५॥ istāniştārthasamprāptau samadarsitayā”tmani , ubhayatrāvikāritvam jīvanmuktasya laksanam 11
The mark of Jivanmukta is being without change in oneself by reason of seeing with an equal eye both the cases of the accrual of what is favourable or unfavourable
For, the jīvanmukta has no sense of distinction between the favourable and the unfavourable.
ubhayatra avikāritvam: being changeless in respect of both; being without joy or sorrow for either.
istānişta: favourable and unfavourable from the point of view of worldly persons; to the jīvanmukta, nothing is işta or anista.
436 ब्रह्मानन्दरसास्वादासक्तचित्ततया यतेः ।
अन्तर्बहिरविज्ञानं जीवन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् ॥४३६ ॥ brahmānanda-rasāsvādāsaktacittatayā yateh antarbahir-avijñānam jīvanmuktasya laksanam 1.
The mark of a jivanmukta is unawareness of the interior or the exterior as his mind is wholly engrossed in the experience of the bliss that is Brahman.