Jivanmuktiviveka 2.12.67
Jīvanmuktiviveka 2.12.67
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2.12.67
punaśca paradārādirdāridrayaṃ ca kuṭumbinaḥ |
pitrorduḥkhasya nāstyanto dhanī cendriyate tadā ||
and again, pursuing other men's wives, and poverty when he is a householder; / there is no end to the sorrow of the parents, and if he is wealthy, he may die.
2.12.67.p1
- (pañcadaśyāṃ 12.65 -67) iti ||
— (in the Pañcadaśī 12.65–67).
2.12.67.p2
yathā vidyādhanakrodhayoṣitputraviṣayāṇāṃ malinavāsanānāṃ vivekena pratīkārastathānyāsāmapi vāsanānāṃ yathāyogaṃ śāstraiḥ svayuktyā ca doṣaṃ vivicya pratīkāraṃ kuryāt | kṛte ca pratīkāre jīvanmuktilakṣaṇaṃ paramaṃ padaṃ labhyate | tadāha vasiṣṭhaḥ - vāsanānāṃ parityāge yadi yatnaṃ karoṣyalam |
tatte śithilatāṃ yānti sarvādhivyādhayaḥ kṣaṇāt | - (yogavāsiṣṭhe rāmāyaṇe upaśamaprakaraṇe 92.9) ||
Just as there is a remedy through discrimination for the impure latent impressions concerning learning, wealth, anger, women, and sons, so also for other latent impressions, discerning the fault appropriately by means of the scriptures and by one's own reasoning, one should apply a remedy. And when the remedy is applied, the supreme state characterized by liberation while living is obtained. Thus says Vasiṣṭha:
"If you make an effort toward the abandonment of latent impressions,
then all your mental anxieties and physical ailments will instantly become weakened." / — (in the Yogavāsiṣṭha Rāmāyaṇa, Upaśamaprakaraṇa 92.9).
2.12.67.p3
pauruṣeṇa prayatnena balātsantyajya vāsanāḥ |
sthitiṃ badhnāsi cettarhi padamāsādayasyalam ||
"If, abandoning latent impressions by force through human effort,
you establish steadfastness, then you will fully attain the state."
2.12.67.p4
- (tatraiva 92.3 -4) iti ||
— (in the same work, 92.3–4).
2.12.67.p5
nanvatra pauruṣaḥ prayatno nāma pūrvokto viṣayadoṣavivekaḥ | sa ca punaḥ punaḥ kriyamāṇo'pi prabalendriyavyavahāreṇābhibhūyate | taduktaṃ bhagavatā --yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ |
indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṃ manaḥ ||
Now, here 'human effort' means the discrimination of the faults of sense-objects mentioned before. And that, even though practiced repeatedly, is overcome by the activity of the powerful sense faculties. That was declared by the Blessed Lord:
"Even of the striving person who is wise, O son of Kuntī,
the turbulent senses forcibly carry away the mind."
2.12.67.p6
- (bhagavadgītāyāṃ 2.60) ||
— (in the Bhagavadgītā 2.60).
2.12.67.p7
indriyāṇāṃ hi caratāṃ yanmano'nuvidhīyate |
tadasya harati prajñāṃ vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi ||
"For whichever senses wandering about the mind conforms to,
that carries away its wisdom, as the wind carries away a boat on the water."
2.12.67.p8
- (tatraiva 2.67) iti ||
— (in the same work, 2.67).
2.12.67.p9
evaṃ tarhyatpannavivekarakṣārthamindriyāṇi niroddhavyāni | tadapi tatraivottaraślokābhyāṃ darśitam- tāni sarvāṇi saṃyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ |
vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā | - (tatraiva 2.61) ||
If so, then to protect the discrimination that has arisen, the senses must be restrained. That too is shown right there in the two subsequent verses:
"Restraining them all, being disciplined, he should sit intent on Me;
for he whose senses are under control, his wisdom is firmly established." — (in the same work, 2.61).
2.12.67.p10
tasmādyasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ |
indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā | - (tatraiva 2.68) iti ||
"Therefore, O mighty-armed one, he whose senses are restrained
on all sides from the sense-objects, his wisdom is firmly established." — (in the same work, 2.68).
2.12.67.p11
smṛtyantare'pi - na pāṇipādacapalo na netracapalo yatiḥ |
na ca vākcapalaścaivamiti śiṣṭasya lakṣaṇam ||
In another Smṛti also:
"Not fickle with hands and feet, not fickle with eyes, the renunciant
is also not fickle with speech—such is the mark of a well-behaved man."
2.12.67.c12
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etadevānyatra saṅgrahavivaraṇābhyāṃ spaṣṭīkṛtam- ajihvaḥ ṣaṇḍakaḥ paṅgurandho badhira eva ca |
mugdhaśca mucyate bhikṣuḥ ṣaḍbhiretairna saṃśayaḥ ||
This very point is clarified elsewhere by concise statement and elaboration:
"Tongueless, a eunuch, lame, blind, deaf,
and foolish—by these six the renunciant is liberated, there is no doubt."
2.12.67.p13
- (nāradaparivrājakopaniṣadi 3.62) ||
— (in the Nāradaparivrājakopaniṣad 3.62).
2.12.67.p14
(** na pāṇipādacapalo na netracapalo bhavet |
na cāṅgacapalo vipra (na ca vāgaṅgacapala) iti śiṣṭasya gocaraḥ ||
["One should not be fickle with hands and feet, one should not be fickle with eyes,
and not fickle with limbs, O brāhmaṇa—such is the conduct of the well-behaved."
2.12.67.p15
(vasiṣṭhasmṛtyāṃ 6.39) ||
(in the Vasiṣṭhasmṛti 6.39).
2.12.67.p16
na pāṇipādacapalo na netracapalo muniḥ |
na ca vāgaṅgacapala iti śiṣṭasya gocaraḥ ||
"The sage is not fickle with hands and feet, not fickle with eyes,
and not fickle with speech and limbs—such is the conduct of the well-behaved."
2.12.67.p17
(mahābhārate 14.45.18) na pāṇipādacapalo na netracapalo'nṛjuḥ |
na ca vāgaṅgacapalo na cāśiṣṭasya gocaraḥ ||
(in the Mahābhārata 14.45.18). "Not fickle with hands and feet, not fickle with eyes, not crooked,
and not fickle with speech and limbs, nor moving in the sphere of the ill-behaved."
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- Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text) — Sanskrit
- Critical edition (BORI, Bhīṣmaparvan 23–40) — Sanskrit
- Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Yājñavalkyopaniṣad — Sanskrit