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Uddhava said:
Lord of Yoga, what thou sayest for my final bliss is n com-
plete renunciation of all worldly attachments It seems to me how-
ever that the giving up of desires is not possible for those th.it have
their mind filled with the object world, unless they are completely
devoted to Thee.
I have not yet got over the sense of " I " and " Mine." Tell
me how I can easily follow out Thy teachings."
Sri Krishna replied:
Generally those men that are skilful in discrimination rescue
self from worldly desires by means of self, (i. e. they may do so, even
without the help of a Guru, by means of self discrimination.) Self
is the instructor of self, specially in man (Purusha.) (Even in ani-
mals, preserving instincts proceed from self. So self is the instructor
Sridhara.} "For it is self that finds out final bliss by direct percep-
tion and by inference. Wise men, well versed in Sankhya and Yoga,
look upon Me as Purusha pervading all beings, and possessing all
po.vers. (This is according to Sridhara, the direct perception by
which final bliss is attained. The word Purusha here has something'
like the sense of a Monad in Theosophical literature. The passage
quoted by Sridhara from the (Jpanishads to illustrate the idea of
Purusha also shews this.) There are man)' habitations created for life
manifestation, some, with one, two, three or four feet, some with many
feet and some with no foot. Of these, however, that of man (Pourushi)
is dear to me. For in this form of Man those that are fixed in medita-
tion truly find me out, the Lord, though beyond all objects of percep-
tion, by the indications of perceived attributes as well as by inferences
from the same. (Indications. Buddhi, Manas and others, the
perceived attributes, are in their nature manifestless. The manifesta-
tion is not possible except through one that is self manifest.
Therefore Buddhi and others point to Him.
Inferences. Whenever there is an instrument, there is some
one to use it. Buddhi and others are instruments. There is therefore
one who guides these. Stidhara.} In this matter of self instruction,
hear the story of an Ava-dhuta (an ascetic who renounces all worldly
attachments and connections.)
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