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Samayasāra
Chapter - 9
from the Body, Sense-organs and Mind. The transcendental self is the pure and perfect self which is free from all limitations as well as psychological distortions. Self-meditation is, further based on the conviction that the transcendental self is the self-realization of the exterior self through the intermediary stage of the interior self.
As the capacity of self-concentration develops, the sharpness and the separation power of the instrument (wisdom), increases and the interior self-the state of the self prior to the attainment of omniscience-is realized. And finally, the instrument completes its job by the attainment of omniscience when the self becomes the transcendental self (paramātma). Thus self-meditation leads to self-realization.
In the following verses, the highly developed self-meditation is equated with self-adoration or self-idolisation and concentrated and continuous adoration of the pure (transcendental) self culminates in final liberation. The self-adoration is equivalent to Rupātīta Dhyāna. We shall now see the modus operandi of this wonder instrument.
Pure consciousness is the unalienable characteristic attribute of pure self, while the attributes which characterize the alien bondage of karma are perverted belief and impure psychological distortions such as cruelty. In the worldly state of existence, both are entangled together from the eternity. The instrument of separation is equipped with a sensor which fully realizes the pure nature of the inherent attribute of the self and thereby identifies it. It also senses the impurity of the emotions, passions and such other psychological distortions produced by the bondage and identifies them as alien. Having identified the two entities, the chisel of discriminative wisdom begins to chip and ultimately splits them apart. The debris of non-self is then disentangled and the Pure Self is revealed in its unpolluted state. Once split asunder, the two entities remain separated.
Continuing the process, the author prescribes the next important step. After separation, the self and the non-self stand apart, each with its own characteristic attribute. So in the next step, the worthless debris of the bondage is cast off and the pure self in its fundamental state is recovered and realized.
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