So long as there is individuality, one is the enjoyer and doer.
But when individuality is given up, the Divine Will prevails and guides the course of events.
The individual is perceptible to others who cannot perceive divine force.
Restrictions and discipline are for other individuals.
Not for the liberated.
you are not. You are none of these.
Nor are you any of the qualities that pertain to these.
You are not the body, nor are you knowledge and ignorance.
You are chit, the real, which is like a crystal,
reflecting the qualities of whatever is placed before it,
and yet having no connection with it.
It is my inherent nature to enlighten you
when I find that you are ripe for it.’
that is the temple of refreshing grace,
inseparable from all that is, becoming pure consciousness
and obtaining the indestructible state whose nature is bliss,
listen as I explain to you the proper means:
May you live long,
winning in your heart
the reality that is devoid of all qualities!
May you attain the state of bliss-consciousness,
so that all the dense accumulation of ignorance disappears!
May you liberate yourself from bondage!’
Through his grace, he imparted to me the state of mauna,
the true knowledge in which bondage is abolished:
‘For that state, there is no thought,
o “I” sense,
no space, no time, no directions, no pairs of opposites,
nothing lost, no other, no words,
no phenomena of night and day,
no beginning, no end, no middle, no inner or outer.
Nothing is.’
‘When I say: “It is not, it is not”, this is not a state of nothingness.
It is pure identity.
It is the nature that eternally endures.
A state that cannot be expressed in words.
It is the swarupa which engulfs everything.
So that neither ‘I’ nor anything else appears.
As the day consumes the night, it consumes ignorance entirely.
Easily overcoming and swallowing up your personal consciousness,
it transforms your very self, here and now, into its own Self.
It is the state that distinguishes itself as 'self–luminous silence.’
‘Other than the nature that is its own Self,
it allows nothing else to arise.
Because there is no other consciousness.
Should anything attempt to arise there it will, like a camphor flame, vanish.
The knower, devoid of both knowledge and objects known, falls away,
without falling, since it still remains.
But who can tell of its greatness, and to whom?
By dint of becoming That, one exists only as That.
That alone will speak for itself.’
If we call it “That”, then the question will arise, “What is That?”
Therefore did Janaka and the other kings
and the rishis, foremost among whom is Suka,
lived happily, like bees intoxicated with honey,
entirely avoiding any mention of “That”.
Remain in this state.
’Thus did he speak.
Grant me the abundance of your grace
so that, in the nirvikalpa state of total tranquillity,
I may know and attain the condition of supreme bliss,
in accordance with your rule.
I shall not sleep or take up any other work until I attain this state.
(‘Akarabuvanam-Chidambara Rahasya’, vv. 18-23)
He who allows his mind to wander with the senses is an ignoramus, though he is learned.
See as a witness, without the burden of seeing.
See the world just as you see a drama.
See without attachment. Look within.
Look at the inner light unshaken by mental impressions.
Then, floods of conscious bliss shall come pouring in and around you from all directions.
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The state in which you are not,
that is nishtha
[Self-abidance].
Unwaveringly established in the Self = Nishtha
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[Allama replied:]
‘One who has eradicated as alien [to himself]the dense, fundamental illusion of egoity
and has, in full clarity, realised the Self –
such a one will be able to know Me also.
who remains attached to the perishable body?’
So proclaimed He who knows jnanis
who have realised the truth non-dually.
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Answer: Liberation is only delighting in the Self through tranquillity and without anxiety.
When this is attained, books are of no use.
One may know the jnana sastras, or take up good sanyasa,
or attempt to experience mauna samadhi,
but the indescribable bliss of liberation is only becoming the Self,
remaining without anxiety and experiencing bliss.
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part 16 Nitya Nivritta
That which is nitya nivritta [always removed, that is, never existing] need not be given any thought to.
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To remove the snake from the rope, it is not necessary to kill the snake. In the same way it is not necessary to kill the mind.
By understanding the complete non-existence of the mind, the mind will go away.
The experience that is without the seer and the seen,
that is without time and space,
is the real experience.
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In the same way, a jnani knows that the world [being only a dream] is never created.
Whatever is there is all his own Self, one and undivided.
Being 'aware of the Self' is the real meditation.
When the mind gives up its habit of choosing and deciding,
it turns towards its own real nature.
At that time it gets into the established state.
When the ego gets more powerful, entry into this state does not take place.
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You think that the world will be conquered by your power,
but when you turn inwards towards the Self,
you will know that a higher power is working everywhere.
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Even if we think that God is formless, that very thought about God itself is a form – a mere mental conception.
This is why Sri Bhagavan says in the second line of the third verse of Ashtakam,
‘If one tries to think of Your nature as formless,
he is like one who wanders throughout the world to see the sky’.
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