|| तत्वबोध -- 12,13,14||

Then the student wants to know the sixth guNa of the six-fold qualities..

समाधानं किमं | चित्तैकाग्रता |TB-12|

So he asks what is samADhAnam? The guru says.."the one-pointedness of the mind". this is elaborated by SD as the ability of the student to stay focussed on WANTING TO END THE SAMSARAM.. he has no other goal.. nothing else is attractive.. he is done with power, passion, postion, money, titles, education, worldly pleasures and pain, etc.. without this one-pointedness, many a student just wander around in the forest of words.. they fail to understand what is important in life and what is not.. and more often than not, end up pursuing what is temporary and evanascent as opposed to what is permanent and real..

Then the Million dollar Q by the student..

मुमुक्षुत्वम किं | मोक्षो मे भूयादिदीच्छा | TB-13|

WHAT IS mumukshuthvam? many of us wander in the forest of samsAram without understnading what his term even means.. TB very clearly defines it as A DESIRE ON THE PART OF THE STUDENT THAT "LET MOKSHA HAPPEN TO ME." At this point he has heard the term moksham or liberation but has gone about it a million different ways.. but to ask a proper guru that question and tell him that "I WANT MIOKSHAM" actually will bring tears to the eyes of the guru. A STUDENT CAN NOT GIVE A GURU A BETTER GURU DAKSHINA THAN ASKING THIS QUESTION. PLEASE MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS ONE

Then the guru concludes the answers to student's question with the following brief statement..

ऍतत् साधन चतुष्टयम् | ततः तत्वविवेकस्य अधिकारिणः भवन्ति |TB-14|

He simply says that once a person has these 4-fold qualifications (1. understanding of what is eternal and non-eternal; 2. dispassion 3a. mind control/3b. organ control/3c. following what has to be done/3d. tolerance/3e. unshake-able faith/3f. one-pointedness in our pursuit; and finally 4. A DESIRE FOR LIBERATION..

Then and THEN ALONE, one becomes eligible for understanding the upanishadic teaching.

NONE of us has all of this in full measure, right? !!!