Contents
Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya
(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)
|
|
Chapter 2
Sankhya Yoga
“If (in deliverance) Consciousness ceases to be, then does it mean that deliverance has no purpose? Saying thus do not confuse me with bewilderment; impart me, O Revered One!" Yajnyavalkya said, "Dear One, I do not speak to you any thing bewildering. In his presence, there is destruction of empirical knowledge (of the Mind) but not the Real Wisdom. When the empirical knowledge of the Mind is destroyed how could there be simultaneous destruction of the Real Self ?”. Essentially the Supreme Self is different from the manifest Creation and because manifestation is dependent upon on Creation, it is different. Since smell etc. are said to be due to presence of the Supreme Self the empirical experience of the self is said to be similar to the wisdom of the Supreme Lord. In (spiritual) experience nothing else is known; neither one's own self nor the Supreme Self, the how can there be human enterprise, and in its absence who will strive for (deliverance)? Therefore there is variance in the empirical knowledge in the presence of Sri Vishnu and all pleasures are enjoyed even in deliverance. It is not otherwise. When the self does not see anything as different from his own self, then he does not become separate even in the many manifestations. By their very nature Brahma and all others are different from the Lord, therefore distinct from the Lord. The Lord does not see any difference in them, there being no difference between the conscious and the non-conscious. There is no delusion regarding the knowledge of Lord's supremacy. When one attains this state of perception there is no separateness between the individual consciousness and the ultimate consciousness and there is no delusion ever regarding knowledge of the Lord's supreme position.
|
|
