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For the person who perceives the juncture, who is devoted to the path of detachment, is free from worldly possessiveness, desists from violence, there is no exclusive way to liberation thus do I say.
Bhāşyam Sūtra 30
For an aspirant who, perceiving the juncture of the body, is devoted to a single way, that is, the super-corporeal consciousness and is devoid of the sense of 'mine'-ness with reference to the body, there is no need of any particular path.
The implication is that the aspirant who has experienced pure consciousness on account of the envision of the juncture and consequently whose renunciation has become natural, has no need of any kind of discipline or any path of meditation. What is the necessity of any path for a person who has reached the goal, as it has been said: the seer has no designation (2.73). The path of spiritual discipline is not only one, there being many ways of attaining freedom from attachment. All these ways are genuine paths.
5.31 āvamti keāvamti logamsi pariggahāvamtī-se appam vā, bahum vā, aṇum vā, thūlam vā, cittamamtam vā, acittamam, tam vā, etesu ceva pariggahāvamtī.
Whoever is seized by the passion of possessiveness, does so with respect to six kinds of beings that are few or many, subtle or gross, animate or inanimate is subject to the passion of possession on account of his clinging to those objects. Bhāşyam Sūtra 31
Things are made of matter, and as such they are not possessions. They become so when they are seized by the person on account of his clinging. Clinging is accepted as possession,27 though in the present Sūtra the things themselves are overtly mentioned as possession.
5.32 etadevegesim mahabbhayam bhavati, logavittam ca ṇam uvehāe. The possession is the source of terrible fear for some people. Look at the condcut of the people.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जनवरी-मार्च, 2008
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