Acharya Sankara's Viveka Chudamani(Crest Jewel of Wisdom)
The Science of Reality:Its Benefits (419-425)
The Science of Reality:Its Benefits (419-425)
- The perfected Yogi who is jeevanmuktah, gets this as a result-- within and without he enjoys eternal Bliss(419)
- The fruit of dispassion i sKnowledge, that of Knowledge is withdrawal from sense-pleasures. The fruit of this withdrawal is the experience of te Blissful Self, and peace is the result of this experience(420)
- when there are no succeding stages, the preceding ones are useless(in a perfect series),automatic cessation of the objective world, supreme satisfaction and unequalled Bliss follow as a matter of course(421)
- The result of Knowledge is, non-chalance towards worldly sorrows.How can he who performs vile deeds in delusion, perform them again when he possesses discrimination?(422)
- Turning away from the unreal should be the result of Knowledge;attachment to the unreal is the result of "ignorance". Such is seen to be the case of one who knows a mirage etc. and one who does not. Else,what palpable result do the Knowers-of-Reality gain?(423)
- When the knots of ignorance in the heart have been totally destroyed, what natural cause can prompt a man who is averse to sense-pleaures, to e go-centric action?(424)
- The culmination of dispassion is when the sense-objects do not excite any more desire. Supreme perfection of Knowledge is when there is no egoistic feeling. The peak of self-withdrawal is reached when the thoughts which have been merged manifest no more(425)
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