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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
न देशकालायचितप्रतीक्षा
त्वङ्मांसविटिपण्डविसर्जनाय ॥ ५५७ ॥ 557. The sage who always lives in the Reality-Brahman-as Infinite Bliss, the One without a second, does not depend upon the customary considerations of place, time, etc., for giving up this mass of skin, flesh and filth.
[ He may give up the body any time he pleases, for it has served its purpose. ]
देहस्य मोक्षो नो मोक्षो न दण्डस्य कमण्डलोः। भविद्याहदयप्रन्थिमोक्षो मोक्षो यतस्ततः ॥ ५५८ ॥ 558. For, the giving up of the body is not Liberation, nor that of the staff and the waterbowl, but Liberation consists in the destruction of the heart's knot which is Nescience.
[ Staff &c.--the insignia of a monk. Mere outward giving up is nothing; they must have no place in the mind.
2 Heart's knot-to bind as it were the Chitor Absolute Knowledge to the inert body. ]
कल्यायामथ नद्यां वा शिवक्षेत्रेऽपि चत्वरे । पणं पतति चेत्तेन तरोः किं नु शुभाशुभम् ॥ ५५६ ॥ 559. If a leaf falls in a small stream,' or a river, or a place consecrated by Shiva, or in a
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