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VIVEKACŪDAMANI
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When the sun has arisen, darkness and its baneful consequences are not seen. So too, when the nectar of nondual bliss is enjoyed, there is no bondage, nor even a trace of misery.
As, when the sun has risen in the sky after dawn, the darkness of the night and all the group of evils attending it like affliction of eye-sight, the danger from thieves and the straying from the proper road are not seen (experienced), so too, when the nectar of non-dual Brahman is experienced, by the growth of the vāsanā of being Brahman, as a result of the inner realisation of the Brahman which is of the nature of sat, cit and ananda, there will be no bondage, i.e., the identification of the ātman with the anātman. Nor even a trace of grief. The reason is the annihilation of adhyāsa which is cause of grief. Vide the śruti: tatra ko mohaḥ kaśśokaḥ ekatvamanupaśyatah (Isa.): "Where is delusion or sorrow to him who sees oneness?"
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If the world appears as a result of prārabdhakarma (past actions begun to bear fruit), even then
दृश्यं प्रतीतं प्रविलापयन् स्वयं . सन्मात्रमानन्दघनं विभावयन् । समाहितः सन् बहिरन्तरं वा
कालं नयेथाः सति कर्मबन्धे ॥३२१॥ dịśyam pratītam pravilāpayan svayam
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kālam nayethassati karmabandhe 11
Causing the perceived objects of sense to vanish, meditating on the Reality which is the embodiment of bliss, you spend your time, if there is a residual prārabdhakarma, in external and internal concentration.
It has been said that so long as wrong understanding has not ceased completely, and the gleam of one's real nature does not arise without let or hindrance, one should spend one's days in the practice, without intermission, of the six disciplines of śama and the rest. By the annulment of the consciousness of name and form, annihilating the perceived world, and meditating on Brahman which is the residual substratum of the things, perceived, and also oneself as that Reality which is compacted of bliss, with due concentration
