Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

Page 15

VICHAR MALA.
Bending to the worshipful feet of bliss, and Sri Deva Krishna I salute,
And write the present work fixing the hen my Guru.
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The author continues his valedictory address and pays his respects to Siva and Krishna apparently, but in the sense of Impersonality, and for that purpose introduces the words full of bliss and Sri which are made to imply bliss and truth respectively, therefore BRAHMA. But the literal meaning of the second word is beauty, and beauty is personal attraction, therefore it is apt to create an impression of personality which is material, therefore unreal. To clear this point, it is said, a theosophist regards this material expanse to be unreal; 'full of Sri' signifies truth. Now Krishna destroyed the giant Mur, for which one of his name is Murari, and salutations are offered to his wrshipful feet. Here, then is a reference to the personal as ect of BRAHMA; and Krishna as a destroyer of the giant ur, and called Murari by the inhabitants of Baikunta, was no other than an incarnation of BRAHMA. He who reads the work and retains it in his mind becomes dumb [leaves off useless talk]: or the last line may be taken to signify, I take mubrage of my Guru [remember him in my heart] while writing it.
But what is dumbness? There are four varieties of it viz. (a) Dumbness of speech; (b) Dumbness of the senses; (c) Dumbness of mind; and, (d) of knowledge. Of them, which did your Guru adopt? This may be asked of the writer, and he proceeds to answer :
Each Shastra is guided by these considerations, for in the absence of a qualified person no instruction can be imparted so as to make it produce the desirable result. 'Subject' is the ascertainment of non-duality or oneness of Jiva and BRAHMA. 'Relation' between the subject which the work treats and the Shastra; and its 'purport' is to procure 'release' or emancipation.