Jnana Vahini - Post 6

Swami continues,

"Nirvikalpa samadhi gives full knowledge of Brahman, and that, in turn, results in Moksha or Liberation from birth and death. 

The mind must be attuned to the contemplation of Brahman; one must strive to tread the path of Brahman and live in Brahman, with Brahman. Atmajnana can be won only by the triple path of:-

- giving up Vasanas, 

- uprooting the mind and 

- the analysis of experience, to grasp the reality. 

1)   GIVING UP VASANAS.

Without these three, the Jnana of the Atma will not dawn. The Vasanas or instincts and impulses prod the mind on towards the sensory world and bind the individual to joy and misery. So, the Vasanas must be put down. 

This can be achieved by means of:-

1.    Discrimination (Viveka), 

2.  Meditation on the Atma (Atmachinthana), 

3.  Inquiry (Vicharana), 

4.  Control of the senses (Samam), 

5.   Control of the desires (Damam), 

6.  Renunciation (Vairagya) and such disciplines.

2)   UPROOTING THE MIND

The mind is a bundle of Vasanas; verily, the mind is the Jagath itself; it is all the world for the individual. While in deep sleep the mind does not function, and so the Jagath is practically non-existent for the individual. 

The Jagath is born, or 'enters the consciousness' and dies or 'disappears from the consciousness', according to the cognitive power of the mind. 

When therefore the mind is destroyed, the world too is destroyed and one is free, one is liberated; one attains Moksha.

(Author’s note- Everything about Mind and to some extent about vasanas, have been covered in the Manas Buddhi Chitta Ahankara - MBCA theme posts. 

Sankara's Guru's Guru - Sri Gaudapada wrote in Mandukya karika - "The universe never was created". 

This could be a shocking revelation, but Swami has mentioned the same thing above, when the mind is destroyed / transcended, this creation is also transcended as the creation itself is projection of mind and nothing else).

  

Love.