Discourses on Vivekachoodamani by Br. Ved Chaitanya - Discourse 77 - Verses 344 to 349

00:17:54-Verse 344
ahaṃbuddhyaiva mohinyā yojayitvāvṛterbalāt |
vikṣepaśaktiḥ puruṣaṃ vikṣepayati tadguṇaiḥ || 344 ||
00:24:16-Verse 345
vikṣepaśaktivijayo viṣamo vidhātuṃ
niḥśeṣamāvaraṇaśaktinivṛttyabhāve |
dṛgdṛśyayoḥ sphuṭapayojalavadvibhāge
naśyettadāvaraṇamātmani ca svabhāvāt
niḥsaṃśayena bhavati pratibandhaśūnyo
vikṣepaṇaṃ nahiṃ tadā yadi cenmṛṣārthe || 345 ||
00:35:02-Verse 346
samyagvivekaḥ sphuṭabodhajanyo
vibhajya dṛgdṛśyapadārthatattvam |
chinatti māyākṛtamohabandhaṃ
yasmādvimuktastu punarna saṃsṛtiḥ || 346 ||
00:39:48-Verse 347
parāvaraikatvavivekavanhiḥ
dahatyavidyāgahanaṃ hyaśeṣam |
kiṃ syātpunaḥ saṃsaraṇasya bījaṃ
advaitabhāvaṃ samupeyuṣo'sya || 347 ||
00:55:13-Verse 348
āvaraṇasya nivṛttirbhavati hi samyakpadārthadarśanataḥ |
mithyājñānavināśastadvikṣepajanitaduḥkhanivṛttiḥ || 348 ||
00:59:56-Verse 349
etattritayaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ samyagrajjusvarūpavijñānāt |
tasmādvastusatattvaṃ jñātavyaṃ bandhamuktaye viduṣā || 349 ||
There are innumerable differences between humans and other beings, but it narrows down to one principle distinction. The humanly ability to discriminate. A lion can certainly tell a hunter from a prey; this discrimination is a primal urge that aids in survival. However, the boon of discriminating between the temporal world and the ever-present unchanging Truth, the Supreme, is exclusive to humans. A basic understanding of this, or even questioning the existence of this statement, is oftentimes the stepping stone to one's spiritual seeking.
Sri Adi Shankaracharya's Vivekachoodamani translated as 'the crest-jewel of discrimination' is an important introductory text that acquaints a seeker with the joys of Vedanta. It walks one through the importance and the process of subtler discrimination, that must lead to dispassion towards worldly objects of desire.
Chinmaya International Foundation and Chinmaya Mission Mattancherry present online discourses on Vivekachoodamani, with Br. Ved Chaitanya.
Br. Ved Chaitanya comes from a family steeped in the Chinmaya Mission. An electronics and telecommunication engineer from Pune, he withdrew from work in TCS to follow his heart. He received Brahmacharya Diksha in 2013. An impactful orator, cheerful, kind-hearted, and a scholarly student of Sanskrit and Vedanta, his particular interest lie in the application of Vedanta in daily life.
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Many pranams to your great mother Swamiji ji because she has given birth to such a devine soul. I remember Shankaracharya ji commenting that a person who is in this path liberates 7 past generations also. Pranams Swami ji