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VIVEKACUDAMANI
ahamo'tyantanivṛttyä tatkṛtanānāvikalpasamhṛtyā | pratyaktattvavivekādayam ahamasmiti vindate tattvam ||
One realises that Supreme Truth 'I am this (Brahman),' by the total negation of ahaṁkāra, destroying the various wrong ideas produced by it, and discerning the inner reality.
ahamaḥ: of ahaṁkāra.
atyanta-nivṛttyä: by completely destroying so that it will not rise again.
tatkṛtanānāvikalpasamhṛtya: by the word tatkṛta; produced by it, it is shown that when the cause is removed, the effect will vanish. It is said that this entire delusion will be destroyed when the first modification namely ahamkara which is the source of various kinds of attachment like family, clan, name, form and status is destroyed.
Then, by the discrimination of the reality inside, by the knowledge arising after examining the real character of the atman and as there is no admixture of the anatman in jñāna, one has direct realisation (aparokṣa-jñāna) of the truth, 'I am this (Brahman)'.
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अहंकर्तर्यस्मिन्नहमितिर्मात मुञ्च सहसा विकारात्मन्यात्मप्रतिफलजुषि स्वस्थितिमुषि । यदध्यासात्प्राप्ता जनिमृतिजरादुःख बहुला
untafkarya: na geant: ¿qfafzum 113OƐ IÙ ahamkartaryasmin ahamiti matim muñca sahasā vikārātmanyātmapratiphalajuşi svasthitimusi | yadadhyāsāt prāptā janimṛtijarāduḥkḥabahulā
praticaścinmurteḥ tava sukhatanoḥ samsṛtiriyam 11
Quickly get rid of your identification with the ahamkāra which, being a modification perceives (only) the reflected image of the atman and steals away its (atman's) real or original state. It is by such identification that you, who are the cit of blissful nature, have come to be involved in this samsara full of the miseries of birth, death, old age and sorrow.
praticaḥ: which is inside.
cinmurteḥ: having jñānasarira: which is inside the jñānaśarira.
