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VIVEKACODAMANI
Though involved very much in worldly activity, the mind of a man who has got up from sound sleep is very clear. Hence susupti (dreamless sleep) is said to be what makes for composure. It is called a state of samprasāda, serenity; for there are no external objects in suşupti, the state of deep sleep. When that is so as a matter of course, what needs to be said to tranquility produced by bliss when external bonds are controlled with effort? When the mind is tranquil and clear, in accordance with the Gitā text: prasāde sarvaduḥkhānām hānirasyopajāyate prasannacetasohyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatişthate / "The destruction of all griefs arises when there is tranquillity always. Of the man with a tranquil mind, the intellect is firm everywhere", freed from grief, void of all that is evil, the mind becomes subtle and one-pointed and acquires the capacity for soul-sight of the Paramātman. Vide the śruti: manasaivedamāptavyam, manasaivānudrastavyam dựśyate tvagryayā buddhyā sūkşmayā (Katha): "This must be attained (realised) only by the mind; this must be 'seen' (realised) only by the mind; it is 'seen' by the sharp subtle intellect".
tasmin sudrste: when it is realised as non-different from one's self, without intermission.
bhavabandhanāśaḥ: the complete destruction of the bonds of samsāra by uprooting of all super-impositions which are their cause.
bahirnirodhah: the absence of any mental modification by anything external
Therefore, the absence of connection of the mind with anything external will help to attain liberation,
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Having thus shown in many ways the evils of thinking about sense-objects, in order to turn one completely from them and to produce revulsion from them, the guru reviles them.
कः पण्डितः सन सदसद्विवेकी श्रुतिप्रमाणः परमार्थदर्शी ।
जानन्हि कुर्यादसतोऽवलम्बं स्वपातहेतोः शिशुवन्मुमुक्षुः ॥३३७ ॥ kaḥ paņditassan sadasadviveki
śrutipramāṇaḥ paramārthadarśī 1 jānan hi kuryād asato'valambam
svapātahetoḥ śiśuvanmumukṣuḥ 11
Being learned, able to discriminate between the real and the unreal, believing in the authority of the Vedas, qualified to realise the Paramātman, who, seeking liberation, will knowingly, like a child, go in for the support of the unreal which would bring in his downfall?!
