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would, in our kindness, give to pacify our friend and to negate for him the ghost-vision he had seen in a moment of delusion, together constitute the 'Scripture' that indicates the post! Naturally, therefore, any Man of Realization, when he reads even the best of the scriptures in this world, must laugh in his own sleeves at the colossal inefficiency of Mother Sruti!!
And those who have no conception of the Reality, to them no Scriptural study can give even an idea of thrill. Elsewhere we read in the Vedantic text books that to such immature intellects the Upanishads are empty words. Just as "children can never understand the physical thrill of married life", so too, poor things, they have. not the instruments to understand, or the maturity to comprehend Truth. As they grow, even if it is not taught, they will instinctively learn to feel or to know it. This idea is indicated in the first line of this stanza.
शब्दजालं महारण्यं चित्तभ्रमणकारणम् ।
अतः प्रयत्नाज्ज्ञातव्यं तत्त्वज्ञैस्तत्वमात्मनः ॥ ६० ॥ sabdajālam mahāranyam cittabhramanakāranam atah prayatnajnātavyam tatvāgnaistatvamātmanah 60.
- collection of words (the philosophical text-books), महारण्यम् - is a thick jungle, चित्तभ्रमणकारणम् cause for the confusion of mind, अत: - therefore, प्रयत्नात् by effort, ज्ञातव्यम् - should come to experience, the true seekers of Brahman, तत्वम् - the real nature, of the Self.
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Commentaries and philosophies constitute a thick jungle in which a mind that roams may easily get lost, in its own delusion. Therefore, true seekers of Brahman should, through right efforts, come to experience the Real Nature of the Self in them.
In this brilliant metaphor Acharya Sankara successfully wooes both poetry and philosophy with the ardour and the fervour of a true and noble lover. We may say that in Vivekachudamani Sankara handles philosophy and dandles
