 Spiritual Growth--- the Secret(339-348)

Ø Spiritual  Growth--- the  Secret(339-348)

• That man is free  who, knowing    the  Self through  his mind  in  all moving and unmoving  objects and observing  It as their substratum,renounces all  superimpositions and   remains   as   the  Absolute  and the Infinite Self(339)
• To  recognise"the entire-universe-as-the-Self" is the means of release from all sense of bondage.There   is nothing Higher than  realising the "universe-as-the-Self".One realises this state by  excluding the  objective    world  through   steadfastness in  the Eternal Atman(340)
• This exclusion should be carefully practised by  sages who have renounced  all kinds of duties and actions and objects,who are passionately  devoted to the  Eternal  Atman,and who wish to possess undying  Absolute Bliss(341)
• The   Sannyasin who has listned  to the discourse  upon  scriptures   and    who has   cultivated "Calmness, Self-control" etc.to him the  Sruti  prescribes   samadhi   for   realising  that  "the-whole-universe-is-the-Self"(342)
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  Even wise-men find it impossible to suddenly destroy the ego,once it has become strong---except for those who become perfectly calm through Nirvikalpa Samadhi  (hushed- Bliss).  Indeed,   desires  are   the effects of innumerable births(343)
•    The  "projecting power",  through   the   aid   of  the "veiling-power"  confuses  the man  with   storms of egoistic-ideas,   and  distracts him through the  attributes  of   that   agitation(344)
•   It   is difficult to conquer the  "projecting-power" unless the  "veiling-power" is perfectly rooted   out.   Andthat  covering over the  Atman    naturally  vanishes   when   the  Subject  is perfectly  distinguished from the  objects,  like milk  from water. But the   victory is undoubtedly complete,and it becomes free from all obstacles,when there is no oscillation of the mind due to the false sense-objects(345)
•     Perfect discrimination arising   from direct realisation distinguishes the true nature of the "subjet" from that of the "object",and snaps   the bond of delusion created by Maya.There is no more transmigration for one who has liberated himself from this.(346)
• The   fire   of     knowledge   that   the  jeeva-is-the-Brahman,  entirely   consumes  the impenerable  forest of Avidya.For him  who has   realised   the State  of One-ness is  there   any "seed"  left   for future  transmigration?(347)
•    The veil that  hides   Truth gets lifted,indeed,when  Reality is fully  experienced.  Soon follows the destruction  of false understnding,and  the cessation of misery---brought   about by  agitations,created by the  false-knowledge.(348)                  

                                   Cause---Effect---False(349-353)                 

• Just  as  a   piece   of  iron  through  contact  with  fire manifests  as  fire,         the  intellect itself  as  the  knower  and   the  known  through  the immanence  of  Brahman .  These  two--the effect of intellect   -  are   observed   to be  unreal as   in  delusion,dream   and  imagination; so too,the  modifications of  Prakriti ,from the   ego down   to  the  gross   body  and all  the  sense-objects   are   unreal.Their unreality,indeed,  due  to their being subject   to change  every moment.   And   the  Atman  neverchanges(350-351) 
• Eternal,Non-dual,unbroken knowledge of  one form the witness of the intellectect.,neither  gross  nor  subtle, indicated   by   the  term"I",  the embodiment of subjective  eternal Bliss,  is   the  nature  of  Supreme  Self(352) 
• Thus  the  wise man, discriminating  between   the Real  and the  unreal, establishing   the   Truth  of  his  Knowledge and  realising  his   own  Self  to   the  unbroken  Knowledge ,becomes  free  and  himself  attains  Peace(353)    

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