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VIVEKACŪDAMAŅI अस्त्युपायो महान् कश्चित् संसारभयनाशनः । तेन तीर्वा भवाम्भोधि परमानन्दमाप्स्यसि ।। ४६ ॥ astyupāyo mahān kaścit samsārabhayanāśanaḥ 1 tena tirtvā bhavāmbhodhim paramānandamāpsyasi 11
There is a great means which will destroy the dread of saṁsāra. You can secure supreme bliss by crossing that ocean by it.
"There is a means which will destroy the dread of samsāra. It is mahān great, for it has to be adopted with much exertion. Crossing the ocean of samsāra, which is otherwise difficult to cross, by the means which I shall teach you, destroying ajñāna which is its cause, you will secure endless permanent joy." The idea is that the śişya desires only the cessation of his sorrow; by the means that the guru will teach him, every kind of his grief will be annihilated and he will obtain eternal and peerless bliss. It will secure not merely negation of the sorrow of saṁsāra, but will endow him with positive bliss. Being told this, the sisya feels immensely assured.
That means is taught in greater detail. वेदान्तार्थविचारेण जायते ज्ञानमुत्तमम् ।
तेनात्यन्तिकसंसारदुःखनाशो भवत्यनु ॥४७॥ vedāntārthavicāreņa jāyate jñānamuttamami tenātyantikasar sāraduḥkhanāśo bhavatyanu 11
The supreme wisdom arises from inquiry into the meaning of the Vedānta texts. Following it arises the complete destruction of the sorrow of samsāra.
vedāntāh: the Upanişads which are at the end of the Vedas; their meanings Vedāntārthāḥ.
vicāra: of the Vedātārthas; vicāreņa; nirnayānukūla-mānasavyäpāreņa: by the mental process conducive to determination. The Supreme Reality is eternal purity, intelligence and freedom. It is free of all differences of like kind, of different kind and of internal differences. It is understood from the Vedānta texts by the six criteria for determining the meaning like upakrama and upasamhāra -the way in which the work begins and the way in which it ends.20
20 The other criteria are: abhyasa, repetition; apūrvatā, novelty of conclusion; phala, fruit; arthāpatti, implication and upapatti, being in accord with reason.
