1.
My son! You may study many Shastras repeatedly, or listen to discourses upon them, but you will not attain a state of being nisankalpa (free of resolves) which is essential for you to be established in your swarup.
2.
You have discrimination. You may do bhoga (indulge in worldly pleasures), karmas, or Samadhi, but you will experience supreme sukha-shanti only when your mind is free of hoping to get anything (any action, feeling, or state).
3.
Everyone is dukhi because of the habit of the triad of karma, kaarana (instrument of action) and kartaa (the doer), but nobody understands this. A person whose antahkaran is pure gets the highest sukha-shanti merely by getting this teaching.
4.
The man who feels weary about even opening and closing his eyes (considering it to be a lapse in the feeling of being a sakshi if he accepts that he has any duties) is the most indolent person. Only he, and no other, has sukha.
5.
When a person gets free of the duality, ‘I did this and I did not do this’, he loses interest in the four prurushaartha (principal human achievements) of Dharma, Artha (wealth), Kama (fulfillment of desires) and Moksha.
6.
A virakta (person with renunciation) has an aversion to vishaya (objects of the senses), and a raagee (one who has worldly attachments) longs for them. However, a person who is free of the feeling of accepting and renouncing is neither a virakta nor a raagi.
7.
Avive`ka-dashaa (a state of lacking discrimination) is the refuge of desire. As long as it exists, the difference of what is to be given up and what is to be accepted remains. This is the shoot of the tree called the sansaara (interactive world).
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A person gets attached to pravritti (activity) and averse to nivritti (withdrawing from activity), but a person who has vivek remains free from duality, like a child, considering them with equal indifference.
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A person who has raaga wants to be free of dukha by giving up the sansara. However, a veetaraaga (one who has no attachments) has no dukha, so he does not feel weary of the world.
10.
A person who has the pride of being a Mukta (liberated soul) and also has mamataa (attachments) for his body, is neither a Yogi nor a Gnani. He is eligible only for dukha.
11.
Even if Shivaji, Bhagwan Vishnu, or Brahma were to give you a sermon, you cannot attain svaroopa-sthiti (the state of being established in your Self) unless and until you forget everything.