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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
374. Know, O wise man, dispassion and discrimination
to be like the two wings of a bird in the case of an aspirant.
Unless both are there, none can, with the help of either
one, reach the creeper of liberation that grows, as it were,
on the top of an edifice.
[ Mukti has been compared to a creeper growing on the top of a
lofty building, a temple for instance, since it is inaccessible to the ordinary
man.]
अत्यन्तवैराग्यवतः समाधिः
समाहितस्यैव दृढप्रबोध: ।
प्रबुद्धतत्त्वस्य हि बन्धमुक्ति-
मुक्तात्मनो नित्यसुखानुभूतिः ॥ ३७५ ॥
375. The extremely dispassionate man alone has Sama
dhi, and the man of Samadhi alone gets steady realization;
the man who has realized the Truth is alone free from
bondage, and only the free soul experiences eternal Bliss.
वैराग्यान्न परं सुखस्य जनकं पश्यामि वश्यात्मन-
स्तच्चेच्छुद्धतरात्मबोधसहितं स्वाराज्यसाम्राज्यधुक् ।
एतद्द्वारमजनमुक्तियुवतेयंस्मात्त्वमस्मात्परं
सर्वत्रास्पृहया सदात्मनि सदा प्रज्ञां कुरु श्रेयसे ॥३७६॥
376. For the man of self-control I do not find any
better instrument of happiness than dispassion, and if that
is coupled with a highly pure realization of the Self, it
conduces to the suzerainty of absolute Independence; and
since this is the gateway to the damsel of everlasting libera-
tion, therefore for thy welfare, be dispassionate both inter-
VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
374. Know, O wise man, dispassion and discrimination
to be like the two wings of a bird in the case of an aspirant.
Unless both are there, none can, with the help of either
one, reach the creeper of liberation that grows, as it were,
on the top of an edifice.
[ Mukti has been compared to a creeper growing on the top of a
lofty building, a temple for instance, since it is inaccessible to the ordinary
man.]
अत्यन्तवैराग्यवतः समाधिः
समाहितस्यैव दृढप्रबोध: ।
प्रबुद्धतत्त्वस्य हि बन्धमुक्ति-
मुक्तात्मनो नित्यसुखानुभूतिः ॥ ३७५ ॥
375. The extremely dispassionate man alone has Sama
dhi, and the man of Samadhi alone gets steady realization;
the man who has realized the Truth is alone free from
bondage, and only the free soul experiences eternal Bliss.
वैराग्यान्न परं सुखस्य जनकं पश्यामि वश्यात्मन-
स्तच्चेच्छुद्धतरात्मबोधसहितं स्वाराज्यसाम्राज्यधुक् ।
एतद्द्वारमजनमुक्तियुवतेयंस्मात्त्वमस्मात्परं
सर्वत्रास्पृहया सदात्मनि सदा प्रज्ञां कुरु श्रेयसे ॥३७६॥
376. For the man of self-control I do not find any
better instrument of happiness than dispassion, and if that
is coupled with a highly pure realization of the Self, it
conduces to the suzerainty of absolute Independence; and
since this is the gateway to the damsel of everlasting libera-
tion, therefore for thy welfare, be dispassionate both inter-