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VICHAR MALA. The professor was well pleased with the conclusion which his pupil had drawn about the nature of Self and he laud: him for the success which he has achieved in acquiring that knowledge, (for which he had to find a real professor capable of. imparting the needed instruction), and finding him firmly convinced of the truth of his oneness with the supreme Selfwhich doctrine is called unrivalled because it helps a person to be freed from the trammels of consecutive re-births-accosts bim thus:
Praise be to thee! for Thou hast succeeded admirably from the good intellect which you have
From this analysis, when a person Of discrimination adopts the four Means; finally to rest in meditation where words cease :
He gains victory, like a performer of magic. A man of discrimination is one who is endowed with the four means of knowledge. (They are :-Discrimination of Brahma as the only Reality and everything else unreal; Indifference or disregard for enjoyments whether in the present life or the next; Passivity etc., already explained.] A person possessing them is called qualified ; in his case, hearing, consideration, profound contemplation and meditation, are the four means to enable him to acquire Self-knowledge and procure emancipation. Now 'hearing' is to hear the precepts of the wise and the utterances of the Shastras in regard to Self. Consideration' is to ascertain their drift; 'contemplation' is to realize that oneness of Jiva (individual Self with the Supreme Brahma by deep thinking—so that the mana-may assume Its shape,—there is no use of words then, hence it is said "where words ceasc," utimately to be one with It, without any distinction of knower, knowledge and the Sbject to be known. (Samadhi). He who succeeds in this "Vay gains victory over ignorance, and tangibly perceives the satural blissfulness of Brahma which that ignorance had hitheto enveloped ; just aš
