Acharya Sankara's Viveka Chudamani(Crest Jewel of Wisdom)
Meditation - the Techniques(379-383)
Meditation - the Techniques(379-383)
- Fixing the mind firmly on Brahman, the point of concentration, restraining the sense-organs in their respective centres, holding the body steady and giving up all thought for its maintenance, attaining identity with Brahman and being One with It, continuously drink the Bliss of Brahman to your own Self.(379)
- Having renounced all thought of the not-Self, which is evil and productive of misery, think of the Self, the Bliss Absolute, which conduces to liberation(380)
- Eternally shines this Atman, the Self-effulgent Witness of all things, which has the intellect for its seat. Making this Atman which is distinct from the unreal,your point of contemplation,meditate upon It as your own Self, eliminating all other thoughts(381)
- Contemplating continuously upon this Atman, with no intervention of any other thought, one must distinctly realise It as one's own Real Self(382)
- By strengthening one's identification with this Self, and by renouncing all identifications with ego etc. One must live with no concern for them, as if they were trifleslike a broken pot or the like(383)
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