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Continuing tatva bodha phala shruti..

तनुं त्यजतु वा काश्यां श्वपचस्य गृहेऽथ वा ज्ञानसंप्राप्तिसमये मुक्ताऽसौ विगताशयः इति स्मृतेश्च |TB-77|

मुक्ताऽसौ विगताशयः mukta asau vigatAshaya: = our wiseman, who has shed his self ignorance.. has NO ABODE any more.. actually all abodes have left him...

ज्ञानसंप्राप्तिसमये gnyAna samprApti samaye = At the very INSTANT of gaining (FIRM) gnyAnam (same as getting rid of self ignorance)



त्यजतु tyajatu = (IT DOES NOT MATTER) If the wiseman casts off तनुं tanum = his body

वा काश्यां vAkAshyAm = in kAshi or the holy place Banares

गृहेऽथ वा gRhE atha vA = or let that place be the house of

श्वपचस्य shva pachasya = a person (chanDAla who eats dog meat)

इति स्मृतेश्च iti smRte: cha = so is the declatation by smRti also..

Here SDS jokingly remarked.." I do not know exactly which smRti it is.." then he added.."If we do not know something we gurus simply say it is from either bRhadAraNyaka upanishat or it is from mahAbhAratam" and laughed his heart off..

Then he added amidst laughter..

"These two granthas are so big most of us can never verify or refute that statement.. that is how gurus get away with it.."

Having said that I want to exactly write this very last official post directly from a tatvabodha book SDS gave me when he guided me in my vedAntic study..

Every single post I have written so far are from many many lectures of the ArSha vidyA papamparA nurtured by SDS.. Swami paramArthAnanda has been and incredible help assuring the correctness of many of my expressions here.

Once I started writing I never thought about the next thought that had to be distilled in these posts.. I let SDS flow though me..

After I write SDS explanation of this very last statement verbatim from that book, I would be summing the entire TB with the most of the gems from the knowledge SDS has imparted to me..

So at this point let me conclude my write up temporarily and give you all a taste of SDS writings.. I seek his blessings in all humility that I can muster..


SDS explanation of the last statement, TB-77

This is so, also because of smRti statement.. "Let him castoff the body at kAshi or at the house of a dog eater." This one (wiseman), who has no particular place, is liberated even at the time of gaining knolwedge.

The jIvanmukta does not come back. He has no need to take birth in another body, in any other form, because he has no karma to exhaust. He is free from the cycle of repeated births and deaths. He can leave his body whenever he likes. It can be the most sacred place or in the most detestable.

shruti says, and smRti also, "It does not affect him where he dies."

The 3-fold karmas are only in the name of jIva. The jIva, who is under the spell of mAyA (ignorance) becomes jIvanmukta when he realizes (his mistake) and 'becomes "bramhan (his svarUpam).

He is released from all bondage and with them go fear and sorrow. When the CAUSE goes the EFFECT goes. The jIva was bound to these karmas. The effects of prArabdha will still continue so he must live through this life and exhaust the prArabdha.

There is a lot of difference between jIva and jIvanmukta. For the jIvanmukta the problem of incompleteness is solved. He knows he is free from all limitations. The wiseman is awakened to his limitless self. That is the real result. He can not come back.

If bondage is real, it would be a lasting thing and there would be no release from it. Bondage is mithyA. The struggle proves it is not essential to my nature. The CAUSE is born of IGNORANCE. The EFFECT can only be removed by KNOWLEDGE. Bound by karma, the jIva will keep coming back. There is NO other way of release except by knowledge. THERE ARE MANY METHODS TO STEADY THE MIND (YOGA SHASTRA) BUT ONLY ONE WAY FOR RELEASE.

Unless you operate a Means of Knowledge (a pramANam), knowledge is not there (pramA gnyAnam). vedAnta is the teaching for gaining knowledge. When knowedge is gained, ignorance goes and can not come back.


Ignorance has no beginning, it can go, but can NOT come back.

(My endless namaskArams to SDS.. )

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