Sunday, September 25, 2022

Bhakti Ratnakara Chapter 5: The Determination of Lord. Sloka 9.

 

tvām ātmāna para matvā param ātmānam eva ca
ātmā punar bahir m
gya aho 'jña-janatājñatā (BhP_10.14.027)


nanu paramātmajñānenājñānakto bandho nivartate ātmatayā jñānādi te ko:'yamāgraha ityāśakya yadadhyāsādātmana pararūpāsphūrti: tadapavādena tatraiva jñāna yuktam itīmamartha vismayenākrośannivāha |

advaya tvāmātmānam para dehādim ātmani dehādimadhyasya | para dehādimātmāna matvā dehādāvātmānamadhyasya | atra naṣṭa ātmā bahirmgya iti citra na hi ghe naṣṭa vastu vane mgyate ||9||


paramātmā-jñānate ajñāna nibarttaa |

ātmāra sbarūpa jñāna kisaka lāgaa ||139

hena yadi bolā śunā ihāra uttara |

bhailā parabuddhi ātmā abhyāsata [adhyāsata?] yāra ||

tāke dūra karibāka kailo io jñāna |

nāhi ajña dekhā io lokara samāna ||140

tumisi kewala ātmā prabhu nārāẏaa |

tomāta karile parabuddhi ajñajana ||

michā para-dehādika ātmā kari māne |

hiāta harāilā tumi tāhāka najāne ||141

bicāriā phuraa ātmāka bāhirata |

āścaryya ajñāna āti dekhā kenamata ||

 


 

‘Let through knowledge of paramatma ignorance dissipate;

why do you need to have this knowledge of atma’s true form?’ [139]

If you speak like this, then listen to its answer.

He whose mind has become affected by “other” due to wrongly identifying atma;
in order to remove that only, I have told this knowledge.

Look how supremely ignorant this person is! [140]

Only you are the atma, O Shelter of All Beings!

And it is you this ignorant one has come to view as “other!”

He regards false body, etc.—the (real) “other—”as his soul!

But he does not know you who is lost in his own heart! [141]

He roams about searching for atma outside!

Look, what kind of extremely surprising ignorance!

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