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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
450. The sky is not affected by the smell of liquor
merely through its connection with the jar; similarly, the
Ātman is not, through Its connection with the limitations,
affected by the properties thereof.
[The Atman, like the sky, is always unattached, though the ignorant
man superimposes connection with external things on It. ]
169
ज्ञानोदयात्पुरारब्धं कर्मज्ञानान्न नश्यति ।
अदत्वा स्वफलं लक्ष्यमुद्दिश्योत्सृष्टबाणवत् ॥ ४५१ ॥
451. The work which has fashioned this body prior
to the dawning of knowledge, is not destroyed by that
knowledge without yielding its fruits, like the arrow shot
at an object.
व्याघ्रबुद्धया विनिर्मुक्तो बाणः पश्चात्तु गोमतो ।
न तिष्ठति छिनत्येव लक्ष्यं वेगेन निर्भरम् ॥ ४५२ ॥
452. The arrow which is shot at an object with the
idea that it is a tiger, does not, when that object is perceived
to be a cow, check itself, but pierces the object with full
force.
प्रारब्धं बलवत्तरं खलु विदां भोगेन तस्य क्षय:
सम्यग्ज्ञान हुताशनेन विलयः प्राक्संचितागामिनाम् ।
ब्रह्मात्मैक्यमवेक्ष्य तन्मयतया ये सर्वदा संस्थिता-
स्तेषां तत्त्रितयं नहि क्वचिदपि ब्रह्मैव ते निर्गुणम्
॥ ४५३ ॥
453. Prārabdhal work is certainly very strong for the
man of realization, and is spent only by the actual experi-
450. The sky is not affected by the smell of liquor
merely through its connection with the jar; similarly, the
Ātman is not, through Its connection with the limitations,
affected by the properties thereof.
[The Atman, like the sky, is always unattached, though the ignorant
man superimposes connection with external things on It. ]
169
ज्ञानोदयात्पुरारब्धं कर्मज्ञानान्न नश्यति ।
अदत्वा स्वफलं लक्ष्यमुद्दिश्योत्सृष्टबाणवत् ॥ ४५१ ॥
451. The work which has fashioned this body prior
to the dawning of knowledge, is not destroyed by that
knowledge without yielding its fruits, like the arrow shot
at an object.
व्याघ्रबुद्धया विनिर्मुक्तो बाणः पश्चात्तु गोमतो ।
न तिष्ठति छिनत्येव लक्ष्यं वेगेन निर्भरम् ॥ ४५२ ॥
452. The arrow which is shot at an object with the
idea that it is a tiger, does not, when that object is perceived
to be a cow, check itself, but pierces the object with full
force.
प्रारब्धं बलवत्तरं खलु विदां भोगेन तस्य क्षय:
सम्यग्ज्ञान हुताशनेन विलयः प्राक्संचितागामिनाम् ।
ब्रह्मात्मैक्यमवेक्ष्य तन्मयतया ये सर्वदा संस्थिता-
स्तेषां तत्त्रितयं नहि क्वचिदपि ब्रह्मैव ते निर्गुणम्
॥ ४५३ ॥
453. Prārabdhal work is certainly very strong for the
man of realization, and is spent only by the actual experi-