Acharya Sankara's Viveka Chudamani(Crest Jewel of Wisdom)
Fully Detached---Samadhi Easy(373-378)
Fully Detached---Samadhi Easy(373-378)
- Only a man of dispassion who is thoroughly established in Brahman, can give up his external attachment for objects and internal attachment to the ego etc.(374)
- Dispassion and disrimination in an aspirant are like the two wings of a bird; unless both are active,no one can take the help of just one and fly to the creeper of liberation which grows, as it were, atop a bungalow(375)
- A man of extreme dispassion alone experiences Samadhi, a man of Samadhi alone has steady Realisation; a man who has realised Truth alone is free from the bondage and the free personality alone has the experience of eternal Bliss(376)
- For a self-realised man,I find no better generator of happiness than dispassion and if that is coupled with a clear Realisation of the Self, it brings about absolute sovereignty within and without. And since the gateway to the damsel of permanent liberation, so for your own well-being be dispassionate, both within and without, always fixing your mind on the eternal Self(377)
- Cut asunder your craving for sense-objects which sre like poison---it is the very image of death; and giving up your pride of caste,family-order oflife, throw far away all selfish actions. Renounce your identification with such unreal things as the body and fix your mind upon the Self. For in reality, you are the Witness, Brahman, untainted by the mind, Non-dual Supreme(378)
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