References from : Astavakra Samhita : Commentator Swami Nityaswarupananda ji, Advaita Ashram, Kolkata. Edition October 2010.
Introduction pages :
a. ….. Reason is a helpful guide up to a certain limit.
b. Vedanta fully utilizes the resources of reason, it at the same time corrects and supplements the results attained by that means by supra intellectual organon, which does not contradict the findings of reason but supplements them by its positive discoveries. The discoveries of this super rational intuition satisfies the demands of reason in full……………..
c. Undisciplined reason has its idiosyncrasies which lead to clash and conflict and so it stands in need of being checked by a corrective, and this is supplied by the suprarational power of intuition in man. ……
d. We feel miserable because we do not realize the freedom that is ours and through ignorance feel that we are in bondage……
e. In reality the self is always free. Freedom is not attained but simply realized and discovered. The impediments to self-realization and freedom are our preoccupation with the objective world, which inevitably leads to conflict of interests and consequently to feud, jealousy, revenge and moral depravity…….
f. To get rid of these barriers of separation and obsessions fostered by the possessive instinct it is necessary to cultivate an attitude of detachment and to culture the moral virtues of charity, forgiveness, sincerity and love of truth…..
g. The moral discipline liberates the mind from the octopus of sense objects, and diverts it inwards. The inward diversion of the mind will enable the aspirant to realize his independence and detachment from the network of relations which constitute the phenomenal world. So long as the mind sees another self, there is bondage……
h. The ego is consciousness limited and distorted by the mind, as the light is distorted by a prism….
i. Craving for the objects of the senses, it is declared, lasts only so long as there is ignorance of the beauty of the self……
j. The mind and the ego are primarily responsible for bondage…..
k. The recognition of values and the ethical and intellectual disciplines are valid only provisionally, that is to say, in the lower plane of reality, where the influences of AVIDYA are in force. But when the AVIDYA is destroyed, together with its satellites, there is no experience of a second entity even on the phenomenal plane. In other words the phenomenal world disappears with the cessation of its cause…..
Introduction pages :
a. ….. Reason is a helpful guide up to a certain limit.
b. Vedanta fully utilizes the resources of reason, it at the same time corrects and supplements the results attained by that means by supra intellectual organon, which does not contradict the findings of reason but supplements them by its positive discoveries. The discoveries of this super rational intuition satisfies the demands of reason in full……………..
c. Undisciplined reason has its idiosyncrasies which lead to clash and conflict and so it stands in need of being checked by a corrective, and this is supplied by the suprarational power of intuition in man. ……
d. We feel miserable because we do not realize the freedom that is ours and through ignorance feel that we are in bondage……
e. In reality the self is always free. Freedom is not attained but simply realized and discovered. The impediments to self-realization and freedom are our preoccupation with the objective world, which inevitably leads to conflict of interests and consequently to feud, jealousy, revenge and moral depravity…….
f. To get rid of these barriers of separation and obsessions fostered by the possessive instinct it is necessary to cultivate an attitude of detachment and to culture the moral virtues of charity, forgiveness, sincerity and love of truth…..
g. The moral discipline liberates the mind from the octopus of sense objects, and diverts it inwards. The inward diversion of the mind will enable the aspirant to realize his independence and detachment from the network of relations which constitute the phenomenal world. So long as the mind sees another self, there is bondage……
h. The ego is consciousness limited and distorted by the mind, as the light is distorted by a prism….
i. Craving for the objects of the senses, it is declared, lasts only so long as there is ignorance of the beauty of the self……
j. The mind and the ego are primarily responsible for bondage…..
k. The recognition of values and the ethical and intellectual disciplines are valid only provisionally, that is to say, in the lower plane of reality, where the influences of AVIDYA are in force. But when the AVIDYA is destroyed, together with its satellites, there is no experience of a second entity even on the phenomenal plane. In other words the phenomenal world disappears with the cessation of its cause…..
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