Vivekachudamani- Post 91

Conquer this great infatuation for your body , wife , children and so on. By conquering these, sages reach the supreme state of Lord Visnu. (86)

Explaining the great 'tragic death' of the seeker, Sankara pinpoints what exactly this death is. Infatuation with the body, no doubt, makes the seeker constantly search for more and more sense objects in the world outside, so that he may discover a greater fulfilment and happiness in life. 

The body here may be considered as indicating all the layers of man's gross as well as subtle personality. 

moham jahi; what type of mōham? mahāmr ̥ tyuṁ; mr ̥ tyu means physical death; mahā mr ̥ tyuḥ means spiritual death; so this mōha which is the cause of your spiritual death; that deha abhimana you give up. 

Then Sankara says; it is not enough that you give up the infatuation for your physical body; there are some people who are attached not only to their bodies; but through their body, they have attachment to the bodies of dear and near ones. So therefore, we include that also.

Wife (dara) is to be understood as not only the wedded partner in life. In philosophy, the word often indicates all those on whom you depend for your happiness and sons (suta) stand for all those who depend on you. 

In the world of mutual relationships, each individual is but a link, holding all the other parts of the chain in position. As an individual I exist in society looking up to people who make me happy and look after those who are looking up to me for their comforts. In the language of the spiritual Masters, 'wife and children' is an idiom that includes all these relationships. 

In the midst of all these webs of relationships an individual exists, maintaining different types of intimate attachments which have a knack of expanding their thralldom. Suffocated by these, he gets exhausted. This is the death of all spiritual aspirations of the seeker. 

Men of reflection (munayah) conquer this meaningless infatuation; victoriously rise, above the hungers of the flesh and come to experience the bliss of the supreme state. Here the word 'Visnu', the Tong strident' stands for the 'all-pervading'. 

Munayaḥ; jitva, having conquered the mōham, yānti; they will very easily attain viṣnoho paramapadam; the supreme abode of Viṣṇu. the supreme abode of Viṣṇu is the literal translation; 

Here, you will imagine a physical abode; but we do not want to mean that because it that is the physical abode, again it has got limitation; mortality, separation, etc. 

Therefore the word padam literally which means abode is translated as swarupam. Therefore paramam padam means paramam svarupam; the supreme nature of Viṣṇu, they will attain.

And what is the nature of Viṣṇu; Brahma svarupam. What is the nature of Shiva? Brahmasvarūpam. Therefore viṣnor paramam padam means they will attain Brahman nature and here also attaining Brahman nature means what already our nature is Brahman. 

It means discovering Brahman Nature. So Vishnor paramam padam yānti means that they will discover brahma svarupam; for them vaikunta is here and now. Kailasa is here and now.

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