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The simile used here is very significant. Like a sick patient, we are to consider ourselves as infected with the microbes of ignorance. Health is the Real Nature of all living beings. Illness is the condition of the physical body when it has, due to some reasons known or unknown, fallen away from its essential health. Health is not created, but all our efforts are to remove the causes that created the disease. A body rid of its disease-germs comes to manifest in time full health and vigour. Similarly, here the ignorance creates in us all the mal-adjustments through which the Spiritual dynamism, the Divine Glory, the Supreme Perfection etc., get drained out from us.
No two patients can be cured of the same disease with the same dosage of the same medicine. Same medicines can be the cure for the disease, but dosages and diet must change from person to person. Similarly, though the Vedanta Sādhana is always the same to all seekers, in its application, individually, each seeker must get his own right dose. Merely taking the medicine does not assure the cure. It depends upon a dozen other factors; of them Tapas is the most essential. The patient may have temptations to enjoy things which are denied to him by his doctor; but he has to avoid them scrupulously; or else, the medicine, instead of curing, may kill him!
यस्त्वयाऽद्य कृतः प्रश्नो वरीयाशास्त्रविन्मतः । सूत्रप्रायो निगूढार्थी ज्ञातव्यश्च मुमुक्षुभिः ॥६७॥
yastvayādhya krtah praśno vari yānchāstravinmatah sūtraprāyo nigadhartho gnātavyasca mumuksubhih 67.
यः • whichever, त्वया - by you, अद्य - today, कृतः • made, प्रश्नः - question, aing - are excellent, galana: . accepted by those well-versed in the scriptures, 47914; - aphoristic, Aaret: - pregnant with morning, च • and, ज्ञातव्यम् - fit to be known, मुमुक्षुभिः । by the seekers.
