Atma Shatakam Or Nirvan Shatakam

Author(s): Shankaracharya
Publisher: B L Institute

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that is in our true nature, our yama, niyama must be perfect, natural in every moment of our life. To put it in the Jain language to meditate on this Mschaya (asei 27 ) nature of the Atma, one's five great vows, the live acharas, the five sanitis and the three guptis must be practiced spontareously without a blemish - 1.e, one's Vyavahara (Cace E12 ) must be perfect. To put it in Vocantic (iza) Language, one should have come quito close to the state of sthitapragnata (izz7y515 through exemplary practice of karmyoka ( cazut ) in one's life at every moment.
Ir without this, the above meditation o
thege in:initely beauti
ful and profound verses (which can only truly be appreciated through knowledge of Sanskrit), is undertaken, it will not lead to the desired, exalted goal. The mind instead of transcending itself, will return to whatever attachments that have remained and whi h were rot removed surriciently by the lower practices of Jnana Kriya,service, etc.
'In fact there is a great danger: Because as you near the exalted
coal, the likely gains are rising exponentially. Similarly, 1r you falter, the fall is also very steep and sometimes so far gone, that one can not recover run it.
Hence, such a meditation should be undertaken under guidance of
true 1 a/guru.// The following is a free translation of the profound spiritual knowledge contained in the Birvanasatakam attributed
to Pulya Adi Sankaras
I am neither the mine, ror the intellect, nor the egol 35 cti2 ), nor the citta (léral where thought processes take place).
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