[Advaita-l] Shankara Digvijaya Sara - part 10

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l wrote:

> The use of the simile of monsoon flashes of lightning for the (vedantic)
> yogis striving for liberation and the autumnal sky with the sun shining
> without obstruction as a simile for apratibandhaka or paripakva GYAnam,
> reads so well.
>
> I observed that in the shloka 57 below,  there is a mention of
> samsAramuktyai samarcati, implying presumably, the stage where some Sadhana
> is still being resorted to for liberation.  This would correlate with the
> stage just immediately prior to the paripakva GYAnam -  which is synonymous
> with liberation per se. And hence the flashes of understanding but unsteady
> nevertheless.
>
> Also the next shloka 58 employing the memorable autumn Sun simile, talks of
> the paripakva GYAnam which is now sahaja and no more comparable to the the
> yogis who get flashes of understanding but are not yet liberated.
>

Yes. As Brahman pervades all, everyone is capable of Jnana and many even 
not doing any sadhana at all have had glimpses of it.  But the hard part 
is to make it steady.  However Advaita Vedanta promises us that it is not 
impossible if we try.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>