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ADVAITA BODHA DEEPIKA[LAMP OF NON-DUAL KNOWLEDGE][Originally

Sri Shankaracharya and other great Sages hadwritten several works like the commentary on the Vedanta Sutrasand thus furnished the methods for those engaged in Self enquiryto accomplish their purpose.From those, Sri Karapatra Swami later condensed thesalient

points

into

Sanskrit

verse

in

a

work

of

twelve

chapters,called Sri Advaita

Bodha Deepika.Still later, some great man seems to have translated thisinto Tamil prose. For some unknown reasons only some eightchapters

of

the

same

are

found

published.]THE MEANS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT1. To the question "How can there be samsara for theSupreme Self of Being-Knowledge-Bliss?", the sages answer"When unmanifest, the power of the Self is called Maya, andwhen manifest, the same is mind. This mode of Maya, theinscrutable Mind, is the sprout of samsara for the self".Disciple: Who has said that mind is indescribable?2-3. Master: Vasishta has said to Rama. In the non-dualConsciousness the bhava which, different from knowledge thatis real and different from insentience that is unreal, tending tocreate, projects the latencies as this thing and that thing, mixestogether the conscious and unconscious, and makes them appearunder the categories, "the sentient" and "the insentient", itselfof the nature of both the sentient and insentient; alwaysvacillating and changeful is mind. Therefore it is indescribable.4. Though itself unchanging, the Supreme Self associatedwith the wrongly superimposed mind, appears to be changeful.D.: How is that?M.: Just as a Brahmin who is drunk, behaves strangelywhen in the power of liquors, so too the Self though unchangedby nature, associated now with mind, appears changed as thejiva wallowing in this samsara. Hence, the Self 's samsara is notother than mind. The srutis say so.5. Mind being the samsara, must be investigated. Associatedwith mind which according to its modes assumes the shapes ofobjects, the man seems to undergo the same changes. This eternalsecret is disclosed in the Maitryiniya Upanishad. This also isconfirmed by our experience and by positive and negativeinduction.6-7. D.: How is it confirmed by our experience?M.: When in deep sleep the mind lies quiescent, the Selfremains without change and without samsara. When in dreamand waking, the mind manifests, the Self seems changed andcaught up in the samsara. Everyone knows it by experience. Itis evident from sruti, smriti, logic and experience that this samsarais nothing but mind itself. How can any one dispute this pointwhich is so obvious?

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