Sutras Sr No 3

 Path to Liberation

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Sometime back, I had blogged a pair of “sutras” (cogitative aphorisms) out of an impulse and which dwelt on the cause of our births, the goals, and the means that could be adopted to get there. The first traced the janma to “prarabdam” (literally the beginning, but more deeply a beginning of a chain of events based on a paradigm of “cause and effect”.)

The gist of these were, that life’s mission would be to attain ripened wisdom (“paripakkuam”) which will come thru only with guru krupa and prayers to Lord.

The third and the fourth ones, -the drafts of which were mailed but not blogged- were sent without a reference to these. On a re-visit I find that there is some continuity. The third goes beyond paripakkuam and talks about the journey towards that final beatitude, starting from humility, and eliminating all negative sentiments in the process. The fourth dwells on that “liberated” stage tracing the cycle of creation, protection and re-union. It is a bit of a surprise to me to realize that they are not totally unrelated.  

I decided therefore that I will blog these though one at a time. And while doing this I would prefer -unlike in the first two- some minimal amount of translations so as to (a) more precisely understand some of the words and context  (b) keep intact the beauty (!!) of the original Samskrit text and (c) not disturb the characteristic brevity of such sutras. Here I go with the third list titled “path to Liberation”.

Sutras Sr No 3 The path to liberation. (Moksha)

1. Budhi abhimanasya bheejam.  (Intellect is the root-cause of Pride)  

2. Abhimanah thyaktham yogyah (Pride being a negative sentiment qualifies for a discard)

3. Abhimana shoonyaath eva Vivekah (Zero Pride or Humility only can lead to Vivekam -The power of distinguishing between the visual world and the supreme spirit-)    

4. Vivekaath dehaabhimaana shoonyam, Moha Kshayam cha. (This leads to the stage of Zero affinity/passion for the physical body, and a withering away of the delusion of mind preventing discernment of truth)

5. Moha kshyaath thyaga bhaavam  (Thence to a state of detachment)

6. Thyagena moksham Mukthihi cha.  (From detachment final beatitude, &liberation)

7. Eshwara Anugrahena Eva Idham Sarvam. (All these possible only thru His Grace)

Ekalavya alias Vichu

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