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VIVEKACŪĻĀMAŅI 70
To enable him to receive and understand his words properly, the guru specially calls for the concentrated attention of the śisya who considers himself very fortunate to receive such praise from the great one.
शृणुष्वावहितो विद्वन् यन्मया समुदीर्यते ।
तदेतच्छ्रवणात्सद्यो भवबन्धाद् विमोक्ष्यसे ॥ ७० ॥
śṛṇusvavahito vidvan yanmaya samudiryate tadetacchravaṇāt sadyo bhavabandhād vimokṣyase 11
Oh learned one! listen attentively to what I say. By listening to it you will be immediately released from the bonds of samsāra.
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Learned one! as you are intelligent, you are endowed with the qualification for receiving the aforesaid ātmavidyā; listen attentively, without distraction, without allowing your mind to stray into other subjects, to what I shall impart to you in brief and at length for right understanding. By listening in the prescribed manner to what I say, immediately after hearing my words, you will acquire realisation of the atman and you will be released from the bonds of samsara in the forms of agency (of action), enjoyment (of the fruits of action), birth, old age and death.
vimokṣyase: You will be completely released.
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Now desiring to tell the siṣya the answer to his questions, first the guru gives the answer to the question: How is liberation attained?
But it may be objected: bondage? How did it arise? ing these three questions put the fourth question first.
The śisya asked seriatim: 'What is How does it stay?' Without answerearlier, it is inappropriate to take up
It is not so. If a house is enveloped by a raging fire, to refrain from immediately putting it out by throwing water on it, but to ask: 'Where did the fire first begin? How did it begin' etc., and to waste time on these questions is improper. For, by the time these questions are answered, the house would be completely burnt down.
Similarly, all samsarins are intensely subject to the ills of samsara. For their destruction, efforts should be taken immediately. It
