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Verse 1010) bhavabandhavimuktaye: to be firmly established in samyagdarshana which is the meas for
the disentanglement from samsAra. "Brahma created the sense organs so as to go out. Hence a man sees only outward without training his eyes towards the antarAtman. A rare dhIra, desiring immortality, turning his eyes inward, saw the antarAtman, in the inner most recess of himself." A person is called dhIrah because he controls his 'dhIh' (the buddhi). When in midst of
the sthula and the suukshma, and one controls the buddhi, the control of the other sense
organs is self evident. By this is implied that one must be endowed with sAnti (mind
control) and other virtues (like sense control, detachment and enduring of opposites
without extraneous aids, and faith). Hence in respect of AtmAbhyAsa or practice of
mind-control, Sri VidyAranya SvAmin has enumerated the following as the means: (Always)
Thinking about it, speaking about it, conveying it to each other, being intent on it only
is said by the wise to be the mark of BrahmAbhyAsa. (Panchadasi) This means that without
involvement in any other activity, the words of the upanishads should be carefully
listened to when taught by a competent teacher, their meaning should be meditated on and
the same should be expounded to others. Ideas contrary to the nature should not clud the
understanding and there must be a continuous flow of accordant ideas. Such a mental
process is called by the wise as nididhyAsana. By this single minded process, giving up
all external stimuli, absolute detachment is attained by a person. |