A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors.

  • Śaṅkarācārya
Date:
1888
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Credit: A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •STbtfH'iJR: DIRECT COGNITION OF THE UNITY OF JIVA AND BRAHMA. BY S’rimat S’ankaracliarya with notes TRANSLATED BY MANILAL NABUBHAI DVIVEDI F.T.S. n ’ n / 1. I* bow to S’ri Harif—to Is’var—the highest happi- ness, the best instructor, the all-pervading, the one cause (material instrumental as well as final) of the Universe. aTTfrWffflrPf I %ifm 11%: II '< II 2. Hence forward is expounded the course of realising the Invisible, for the easy acquisition of final absolution (from the bonds forged by ignorance-avidyd); let those only who have sufficiently prepared themselves for being initiated into the secrets of this Science, by every effort frequently meditate upon the truths herein inculcated. * The ego—the as’uddha jlva (6th principle) as it were contemplates upon Ishwar—Brahma—the creator and yet —the destroyer of all avidyd— igno- rance, i. e. tries to realise its primal identity with Brahma. t He who by the light of knowledge takes away, melts away all aridy a— the common substratum of the three States of sleep, dream and waking.