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mainly in the wild jungles of the uncultured and uncultivated hearts called Ignorance, thereafter, he will take the best from all Sastras and will try to bring immediately to himself the specific cure for Ignorance, which is nothing other than the Knowledge of the Real.
Of what avail is the slower and the more comfortable means such as the study of the Vedas and the Sastras, repetition of Mantras or the noisy arguments for and against each school of philosophical thoughts to him?
न गच्छति विना पानं व्याधिरौषधशब्दतः । विनाऽपरोक्षानुभवं ब्रह्मशब्दैर्न मुच्यते ॥ ६२ ॥
na gachati vinā pānam vyādhirouṣadhasabdatah vinā (a) parokṣānubhavam brahmasabdairna mucyate 62.
न Not गच्छति
- goes, विना पानम् - without drinking, व्याधिः - the disease, by mere utterances of the name of the medicine, विना परोक्षानुभवम् - without a direct realisation, ब्रह्मशब्द: - by the simple utterance of the word Brahman, à (one) is not liberated.
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A disease is not cured by the mere repeated utterances of the name of the medicine, without taking it; without a direct realization, by the simple utterance of the,,word 'Brahman', none can be liberated.
How and why mere chanting of a mantra is considered in itself impotent are described here. Any individual suffering from ignorance cannot expect to get a cure by merely repeating unto himself Brahman, the name of the Absolute Reality. Repeated utterances of Brahma-Aham-Asmi (Brahman I am), or a mechanical murmuring of endless "Sivoham Sivoham" cannot, by itself produce any cure in us. However efficient the medicine may be, no patient is known to have gained a cure simply by repeated reading of a prescription.
When one is suffering from headache, by repeating for hours the name of Aspro or Aspirin he can only increase the headache, and never hope to cure the pain. The only
