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VIVEKACŪDĀMAŅI
5. What greater fool is there than the man who having
obtained a rare human body, and a masculine body too,
neglects to achieve the real end of this life?
[The real end etc. -viz. Liberation.]
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वदन्तु शास्त्राणि यजन्तु देवान्
कुर्वन्तु कर्माणि भजन्तु देवताः ।
आत्मैक्यबोधेन विनापि मुक्ति
र्न सिध्यति ब्रह्मशतान्तरेऽपि ॥ ६ ॥
6. Let people quote the scriptures and sacrifice to the
gods, let them perform rituals and worship the deities, but
there is no liberation without the realization of one's
identity with the ātman, no, not even in the lifetimel of a
hundred Brahmäs put together.
[¹Lifetime etc.-That is, an indefinite length of time. One day of
Brahma (the Creator) is equivalent to 432 million years of human com-
putation, which is supposed to be the duration of the world.]
अमृतत्वस्य
नाशास्ति वित्तेनेत्येव हि श्रुतिः ।
ब्रवीति कर्मणो मुक्तेरहेतुत्वं स्फुटं यतः ॥ ७ ॥
7. There is no hope of immortality by means of riches-
such indeed is the declaration of the Vedas. Hence it is
clear that works cannot be the cause of liberation.
[The reference is to Yājñavalkya's words to his wife Maitreyi,
Brhadāranyaka II. iv. 2. Cf the Vedic dictum, न कर्मणा न प्रजया धनेन
त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानशु:- Ncither by rituals, nor by progeny, nor by
riches, but by renunciation alone some attained immortality.]
5. What greater fool is there than the man who having
obtained a rare human body, and a masculine body too,
neglects to achieve the real end of this life?
[The real end etc. -viz. Liberation.]
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वदन्तु शास्त्राणि यजन्तु देवान्
कुर्वन्तु कर्माणि भजन्तु देवताः ।
आत्मैक्यबोधेन विनापि मुक्ति
र्न सिध्यति ब्रह्मशतान्तरेऽपि ॥ ६ ॥
6. Let people quote the scriptures and sacrifice to the
gods, let them perform rituals and worship the deities, but
there is no liberation without the realization of one's
identity with the ātman, no, not even in the lifetimel of a
hundred Brahmäs put together.
[¹Lifetime etc.-That is, an indefinite length of time. One day of
Brahma (the Creator) is equivalent to 432 million years of human com-
putation, which is supposed to be the duration of the world.]
अमृतत्वस्य
नाशास्ति वित्तेनेत्येव हि श्रुतिः ।
ब्रवीति कर्मणो मुक्तेरहेतुत्वं स्फुटं यतः ॥ ७ ॥
7. There is no hope of immortality by means of riches-
such indeed is the declaration of the Vedas. Hence it is
clear that works cannot be the cause of liberation.
[The reference is to Yājñavalkya's words to his wife Maitreyi,
Brhadāranyaka II. iv. 2. Cf the Vedic dictum, न कर्मणा न प्रजया धनेन
त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानशु:- Ncither by rituals, nor by progeny, nor by
riches, but by renunciation alone some attained immortality.]