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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
The knowledge "I am Devadatta" does not depend on anything else. Likewise is the cognition: 'I am Brahman' for the Brahmavit (for one who has known i.e., realised Brahman).
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भानुनेव जगत्सर्वं भासते यस्य तेजसा ।
अनात्मकमसत्तुच्छं किं नु तस्यावभासकम् ॥। ५३४ ॥ bhānuneva jagat sarvam bhāsate yasya tejasă | anātmakam asat tuccham kim nu tasyāvabhāsakam 11
What can be there to manifest that by whose lustre, as of the sun, shines all that is the anātman, asat ( unreal) and insignificant?
535
वेदशास्त्रपुराणानि भूतानि सकलान्यपि ।
येनार्थवन्ति तं किं नु विज्ञातारं प्रकाशयेत् ॥ ५३५ ॥
vedaśāstrapurāṇāni bhūtāni sakalānyapi | yenarthavanti tam kim nu vijñātāram prakāśayet ||
What can illumine that supreme Knower by whom the Vedas, the Purānas and all the things that are originated become significant?
536
एष स्वयंज्योतिरनन्तशक्तिः आत्माऽप्रमेयः सकलानुभूतिः । यमेव विज्ञाय विमुक्तबन्ध : जयत्ययं ब्रह्मविदुत्तमोत्तमः ॥ ५३६ ॥
eşa svayamjyotir anantaśaktir
ātmā prameyah sakalānubhūtih । yameva vijñāya vimuktabandhaḥ
jayatyayam brahmaviduttamottamaḥ ||
This is self-effulgent ātman, of infinite power, beyond intellectual comprehension, yet experienced by every one. Realising it, freed from bondage lives happily the superlatively eminent Brahmavit.
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