In the One-No Plurality

Ø In the One-No Plurality(330-338)

Ø He who is completely aloof,even   while  living,is alone really aloof after the dissolution of the body.  The Yajurveda declares  that there is fear for one who  sees even the  least   bit  of  distinction(330)

Ø He who identify himself with the objective  universe, which  has  been denied by hundreds of Srutis ,Smritis and reasonins, suffers one  misery after  another, like a thief—for he  indulges in   something forbidden(332)

Ø He   who devotes himself to meditation on the   Reality, and  is free  from Nescience, attains  to  the    eternal glory of the  Atman. But he who dwells on the ”unreal”, is destroyed...  like   a   thief(333)

Ø The Sadhak should give up dwelling on   the  unreal, which causes bondage, and  should always fix his thoughts on the  Atmans   as  ”This, I  myself am”.  For steadfastness in  Brahman gained  through the   realisation  of one’s identity   with It, gives rise to bliss and  thoroughly    removes the misery  of Nescience, which   one   experiences in the   state  of   ignorance(334)

Ø Constant   contemplation upon   the    external objects    will only   gather up its fruits, viz, enhancing the evil   propensities which   grow from bad   to worse. Knowing  this,  through  discrimination,    one   should leave the thoughts of external objects   and   constantly   apply   oneself to meditation on the  Self(335)

Ø When  the objective  world is shut   out,  the mind becomes quiet,  and  in   the quiet mind arises the  vision  of Paramatman. When “that” is perfectly realised, the chain of births and   deaths is broken. Hence  the shutting   out  of the  external world is the  initial step for reaching  liberation(336)

Ø Where   is the man who being   learned, able  to discriminate between the  Real and   the  unreal, believing the  Vedas as authority, fixing  his gaze upon the  Atman, the  Supreme Reality, and being a   seeker after liberation, will, like a child, consciously run after the  unreal, which will surely cause his fall?(337)

Ø There   is   no liberation   for   him   who is attached   to  the   body  etc.,  and the  liberated man   has   no  identification  with   his  body etc. The  sleeping man   is  not  awake, nor   is   the  waking   man  asleep—for  these  two   states   are contradictory   in  nature(338) 

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