" Means of Wisdom "

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Means of wisdom : (verses 8-13).

 
 

Therefore, the learned seeker who is striving to gain this liberation and who has renounced all his desires for pleasures in the external sense-objects, should duly approach a good and generous Master and must live attuned to the true significances of the words of the Master.

 
 
 

Having ascended the path of yoga through continuous and right discrimination, one should lift oneself from the ocean of change and finitude wherein one has come to be drowned.

 

May the wise and learned man give up all actions motivated by desires and start the practice of realization of the Self and thereby attain freedom from the bondage of birth and death.

 
 

Actions help to purify the mind but they do not, by themselves, contribute to the attainment of Reality. The attainment of the Realis brought about only by Self-Inquiry and not in the least by even ten million acts.

 
 

 

The fear and sorrow created by the delusory serpent in the rope can be ended only after fully ascertaining the truth of the rope through steady and balanced thinking.

 
 
 

Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge about our own Self. The firm experience of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advices of the wise.

*Breath regulation exercises.

 

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