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VIVEKACUDAMANI
101. Blindness, weakness, and sharpness are conditions
of the eye, due merely to its fitness or defectiveness; so are
deafness, dumbness, etc. of the car and so forth-but never
of the Atman, the Knower.
उच्छ्वासनिःश्वासविजृम्भणक्षु-
त्प्रस्यन्दनाद्युत्क्रमणादिकाः क्रिया: ।
प्राणादिकर्माणि वदन्ति तज्ज्ञा:
प्राणस्य धर्मावशनापिपासे ॥ १०२ ॥
102. Inhalation and exhalation, yawning, sneezing,
secretion, leaving this body, etc., are called by experts
functions of Prāṇa and the rest, while hunger and thirst
are characteristics of Präna proper.
अन्तःकरणमेतेषु चक्षुरादिषु वर्ष्माणि ।
अहमित्यभिमानेन तिष्ठत्याभासतेजसा ॥ १०३ ॥
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103. The inner organ (mind) has its seat in the organs
such as the eye, as well as in the body, identifying with
them and endued with a reflection of the Atman.
अहंकारः स विज्ञेयः कर्ता भोक्ताभिमान्ययम् ।
सत्त्वादिगुणयोगेन चावस्थात्रयमश्नुते ॥ १०४ ॥
104. Know that it is cgoism which, identifying itself
with the body, becomes the doer or experiencer, and in
conjunction with the gunas such as the sattra, assumes
the three different states. 2
[1Gupas- The three component factors of Prakrti.
Different states-Those of waking etc.]
101. Blindness, weakness, and sharpness are conditions
of the eye, due merely to its fitness or defectiveness; so are
deafness, dumbness, etc. of the car and so forth-but never
of the Atman, the Knower.
उच्छ्वासनिःश्वासविजृम्भणक्षु-
त्प्रस्यन्दनाद्युत्क्रमणादिकाः क्रिया: ।
प्राणादिकर्माणि वदन्ति तज्ज्ञा:
प्राणस्य धर्मावशनापिपासे ॥ १०२ ॥
102. Inhalation and exhalation, yawning, sneezing,
secretion, leaving this body, etc., are called by experts
functions of Prāṇa and the rest, while hunger and thirst
are characteristics of Präna proper.
अन्तःकरणमेतेषु चक्षुरादिषु वर्ष्माणि ।
अहमित्यभिमानेन तिष्ठत्याभासतेजसा ॥ १०३ ॥
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103. The inner organ (mind) has its seat in the organs
such as the eye, as well as in the body, identifying with
them and endued with a reflection of the Atman.
अहंकारः स विज्ञेयः कर्ता भोक्ताभिमान्ययम् ।
सत्त्वादिगुणयोगेन चावस्थात्रयमश्नुते ॥ १०४ ॥
104. Know that it is cgoism which, identifying itself
with the body, becomes the doer or experiencer, and in
conjunction with the gunas such as the sattra, assumes
the three different states. 2
[1Gupas- The three component factors of Prakrti.
Different states-Those of waking etc.]