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Gurupoornima Retreat Sessions by Poojya Swamiji on Vivekachoodamani

In Vivekachudamani, Adi Shankaracharya unambiguously points out that ignorance is deeply embedded in man and it cannot be removed by any weapons or by any rituals. It can be destroyed only with the sharp mighty weapon of discrimination.

Foolish people think that they are the body. But learned people think that they are not the body, but something different from the body. But people graced by discrimination have the firm conviction and realization that: “I am the Self.”

What is the reality of the world? All the wakeful activities, interactions and impacts are wiped off in sleep. This leads to the inference that the world is not a continuing presence; it comes into expression only during wakefulness. So, the entire world is a mental creation and does not have an independent
existence.

Both in the case of the shadow of the body and the reflection in the mirror, one clearly knows that it is not real. In the dream also, one knows that it is only illusory and not real. In the case of the shadow, reflection and dream one does not develop a sense of identity with them. In the same manner, a seeker must not develop an identity with the body.

One aspiring for liberation must exterminate the desire for perishable objects, leave all secular and worldly activities, and with pure and assiduous application and spiritual pursuits, must wash off all Rajo guna propensities.

All the three states--wakefulness, sleep and dream—emerge and subside and are transitory. The ‘I’ is the unchanging substratum and witness of all the three states. It is the ever-present Self, the sentience, the indwelling presence, Consciousness, and it is to be known as dwelling in one’s own heart.

Shlokas chanted in the Session:
7:02 - विशुद्धसत्त्वस्य गुणाः प्रसादः स्वात्मानुभूतिः …Vivekachudamani 119
8:04 - नास्त्रैर्न शस्त्रैरनिलेन वन्हिना छेत्तुं न…Vivekachudamani 147
18:58 - देहोऽहमित्येव जडस्य बुद्धिः देहे च जीवे…Vivekachudamani 160
34:02 - सुषुप्तिकाले मनसि प्रलीने नैवास्ति किञ्चित्सकलप्रसिद्धेः….Vivekachudamani 171
43:38 - छायाशरीरे प्रतिबिम्बगात्रे यत्स्वप्नदेहे…Vivekachudamani 163
50:32 - मोक्षैकसक्त्या विषयेषु रागं निर्मूल्य…Vivekachudamani 182
1:03:58 - जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिषु स्फुटतरं योऽसौ समुज्जृम्भते….Vivekachudamani 217

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