Jivanmuktiviveka 1.64.p2

1.64.p2

vidheyātmatvaṃ vaśīkṛtamanastvam | prasādo nairmalyaṃ bandharāhityam | samādhyabhyāsayuktastadvāsanābalād vyutthānadaśāyāmindriyairvyavaharannapi prasādaṃ samyakprāpnoti | tadetatkiṃ vrajetetipraśnottaram | uparitanenāpi bahunā granthena sthitaprajñaḥ prapañcitaḥ |
nanu prajñāyāḥ sthityutpattibhyāṃ prāgapi sādhanatvena rāgadveṣādirāhityamapekṣitam |
bāḍham; tathāpyasti viśeṣaḥ, sa ca śreyomārgakārairdarśitaḥ- vidyāsthitaye prāgye sādhanabhūtāḥ prayatnaniṣpādyāḥ |
lakṣaṇabhūtāstu punaḥ svabhāvataste sthitāḥ sthitaprajñe ||

Being one whose self is self-controlled means having a mind brought under control. Serenity is purity, freedom from bondage. Endowed with the practice of absorption, by the force of its latent impressions, even while engaging with the senses in the state of waking consciousness, he fully attains serenity. This is the answer to the question: "How does he move?" By the extensive subsequent text as well, the person of steady wisdom is elaborated. / [Objection:] Surely, freedom from attachment, hatred, and the like is required as a spiritual practice even before the establishment and the arising of wisdom? / True; nonetheless, there is a distinction, and it has been shown by the authors of the Śreyomārga: / "Those which prior [to knowledge] were spiritual practices to be accomplished by effort for the establishment of wisdom, / those very ones, again, abide naturally as marks in the person of steady wisdom."