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
sance to him. Like a fire smouldering without fuel, he is self-sub
These are the virtues that are
sistent finding his rest in Brahman." referred to here.
A deśika is so called as he gives instruction (upadeśa) to his disciples: sişyebhyo jñāņam disati iti desikaḥ.
tam samupetya: approaching him (such a guru) according to rule. tenopadiṣṭārthasamāhitātmā: with a mind which has well understood the nature of Brahman signified by the upadeśa of the guru and also the means of realising it. ātmā here means antaḥkaranam,
the internal organ.
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vimuktyai prayateta: let him strive for liberation. As the endeavour for liberation will not arise without the yearning for it, by this is implied mumukṣutva, the desire for mukti.7
Śrī Bhagavatpāda says: upadiṣṭārthasamāhitātmā which means one whose mind is deeply concentrated in the meaning of the upadeśa. Such a state of mind cannot arise without renouncing every kind of karma. Therefore the purport of this śloka is that a wise man who has renounced all pleasures and desire for them should, after giving up all karmas, meekly approach a guru who is firmly established in Brahman, and reflect on Brahman without intermission. All this leads to the proposition that only a samnyasin who has renounced everything and is a mumuksu, is competent for Brahmavicāra.
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उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं मग्नं संसारवारिधौ ।
योगारूढत्वमासाद्य सम्यग्दर्शननिष्ठया ॥९॥
uddharedātmanātmānam magnam samsāraväridhau | yogāruḍhatvamāsādya samyagdarśananiṣṭhaya ||
By attaining to a state of yogarūḍha by firm knowledge of Brahman, let one raise one's impure mind steeped in the ocean of samsara, by one's pure mind.
The purport conveyed in brief above is elaborated by śrī Bhaga
vatpāda in the following seven slokas. The striving for liberation
7 This is tivra-mumuksutva as will be explained later.
8 Such a samnyasa is called vividiṣā-samnyasa, as distinct from vidvat-samnyāsa which is a saṁnyasa or absolute renunciation characteristic of aparoksa anubhava or intuitive realisation of the atman.
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