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VIVEKACUDAMANI
aträtmabuddhim tyaja muḍhabuddhe tvanmāmsamedo'sthipuriṣarasau | sarvātmani brahmani nirvikalpe
kuruşva śāntim paramām bhajasva
Oh! thou of stupid intellect! Give up identifying your atman with this body made up of the skin, flesh, fat, bones and excreta. Instead, rest your mind on Brahman, the one atman of all and which is not subject to change. And then, enjoy supreme bliss.
mudhabuddhe: you whose mind is devoid of discrimination; or it may mean; in this body wrongly thought to be the atman by the men of stupid intellect.
Give up the impression that this body of skin, flesh, fat, bones and excreta is the atman. Vide the śrutis: idam sarvam yadayamātmā (Māṇd.); sarvam khalvidam brahma (Chand.): "All this is the atman"; "Verily, all this is Brahman." Transfer your belief that this body is the ātman to Brahman, the supreme Paramātman which is the material cause of all things and the ultimate substratum of their appearance, which is devoid of different kinds of changes. Understand the truth; I am only the supreme Brahman.
nirvikalpe: vividhakalpanāśūnye: which is devoid of different imaginations about itself.
The consequence of such understanding is stated. Attain the supreme peace and bliss of liberation, of being firmly established in Brahman. Vide the Gitā: santim nirvāṇaparamām matsamsthām adhigacchati: "attains to the peace abiding in Me which culminates in mokşa."
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In this sloka it is said that there can be no liberation merely from the knowledge of sastraic books without renunciation of false identification of the atman with the body etc.
देहेन्द्रियादावसति भ्रमोदितां
विद्वानहंतां न जहाति यावत् । तावन्न तस्यास्ति विमुक्तिवार्ता -
stयस्त्वेष वेदान्तनयान्तदर्शी ।। १६४ ।। dehendriyādāvasati bhramoditām
vidvānahaṁtām na jahāti yāvat tāvanna tasyāsti vimuktivārtā
'pyastveṣa vedantanayāntadarsi ||
