[Advaita-l] jIvanmukti and MahAbhAratha

[V Subrahmanian]

Recently we had occasion to look into the sulabhA-janaka samvAda in the
MahAbhArata.  By looking at several verses therein and the commentary of
NilakanTha we can conclude that the mahAbhAratha too talks of the Advaitic
jivan-mukta/mukti. Here is a sample verse:

http://rsvidyapeetha.ac.in/cgi-bin/maha/out-adhyaya1.cgi

तानि तानि तु सञ्चिन्त्य सङ्गस्थानान्यरिन्दम।
आत्मनाऽऽत्मनि सम्पश्येत्किमन्यन्मुक्तलक्षणम्॥ 12-320-132

तानीति संगस्थानानि  *स्त्र्यारीनि* आत्मन्येव संपश्येत् न तु बहिः आत्मक्रीड
आत्मरतिश्च यः स एव मुक्त इत्यर्थः । [नीलकण्ठः]

From the above verse and commentary we get to know that the Mahabharatha,
like the BhagavadgitA, is jIvanmukti-para.  It talks of mukta lakShaNam.
This one word in the commentary: स्त्र्यारीनि is not easily
comprehensible.  I request scholars to kindly explain the word.  One can
see the commentary on page no.373 of the pdf available at:
http://asi.nic.in/asi_books/8999.pdf.

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