Book Title: Vivek Chudamani
Author(s): Chandrashekhar Bharti Swami, P Sankaranarayan
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidyabhavan

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________________ 294 VIVEKACŪDAMAŅI mătāpitrormalodbhūtam malamāmsamayam vapuhi tyaktvā candālavaddūram brahmībhūya krti bhava 11 Abandoning far away like a candāla (outcast) the body full of excreta and flesh, and born of impure excreticns of the mother and the father, become Brahman and attain your life-purpose. The body is produced by the combination of the sukra (semen) of the father and the sonita (crimson discharge) of the mother. It is also composed of excreta and flesh. Thus, both by its origin and its nature, it is repugnant. tyaktvā candālavat: abandoning it far away as you do to a candāla, i.e., not entertaining any attachment for it. rahmībhūya: giving up the sense of not being Brahman which is the result of ajñāna, understanding that you are Brahman. krti bhava: attain your life-purpose (krtakrtyo bhava). Or krth bhava may also mean, be wise. 289 Giving up attachment to the gross body, says the guru, by the attenuation of its upādhis, attenuate the jiva too which appears separate by the separateness of the body. घटाकाशं महाकाश इवात्मानं परात्मनि । विलाप्याखण्डभावेन तूष्णी भव सदा मुने ॥२८९ ॥ ghațākāśam mahākasa ivātmānam parātmani vilāpyākhandabhāvena tūsnīm bhava sadā mune 11 As the space in a pot dissolved marges in the universal space, dissolve the ātman in the Paramātman and be silent. O sage! The universal space alone, enclosed in a pot, is called ghatākāśa. So too, enclosed in (limited by the upādhis like the intellect etc., the Paramātman is said to be the jiva. When the walls of the pot are ignored by the mind the ghatākāśa is only mahākāśa. Thus, by the knowledge of all materials not being different from Brahman which is the substratum of all imagination and when thus all the upădhis are eliminated, as there is nothing to delimit what is infinite and unlimited, learned one, always be silent as that Infinite as there is nothing else for you to do. For, it is said in the Gītā: etad buddhvā buddhimān syāt krtakrtyaśca bhārata: "Knowing this (a man) becomes wise, O Bhārata! and all his duties are accomplished."

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