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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
 
सन्त्यन्ये प्रतिबन्धाः पुंसः संसारहेतवो दृष्टाः ।
तेषामेवं मूलं प्रथमविकारो भवत्यहंकारः ॥ २९८ ॥
 
298. Other obstacles are also observed to exist for
men, which lead to transmigration. The root of them, for 2
the above reasons, is the first modification of nescience
called egoism.
 
[ Obstacles-Such as desires.
 
For etc.-Because but for egoism, which is a product of nescience.
there would not be any false identification, and therefore no serious
trouble.]
 
यावत्स्यात्स्वस्य सम्बन्धोऽहंकारेण दुरात्मना ।
तावन्न लेशमात्रापि मुक्तिवार्ता विलक्षणा ॥ २९९ ॥।
 
299. So long as one has any relation to this wicked ego,
there should not be the least talk about liberation, which
Icast talk about
is unique.
 
अहंकारग्रहान्मुक्तः स्वरूपमुपपद्यते ।
 
चन्द्रवद्विमल: पूर्ण: सदानन्दः स्वयंप्रभः ॥ ३०० ॥
 
300. Freed from the clutches of egoism, as the moon
from those of Rähu, man attains to his real nature, and
becomes pure, infinite, ever blissful, and self-luminous.
 
[1Clutches- Graha in Sanskrit means both planet and seizing.
The eclipses of the sun and moon are popularly ascribed by Hindu
mythology to the periodical attacks of their enemy Rahu, a demon whom
they prevented from drinking the nectar. ]
 
यो वा पुरे सोऽहमिति प्रतीतो
बुद्धघा प्रक्लृप्तस्तमसाऽतिमूढया ।