Sunday, January 8, 2012

MEANS TO LIBERATION[MOKSHA]---UPADESHA SAHASREE



ADI SHANKARA in this famous works says that means to liberation should be explained again and again untill it's firmly grasped by the shishya., who is a pure Brahmana disciple who is indifferent to to everything that is transitory and achievable through certain means, who has given up the desire for a son,for wealth and for this world and the next[regions of the fathers,and the gods] who has adopted the life of a wandering monk and is endowed with control over mind AND SENSES,WITH COMPASSION ETC, AS WELL AS THE QUALITIES OF A DISCIPLE WELL KNOWN IN SCRIPTURES, AND WHO HAS APPROACHED THE TEACHER IN THE PRESCRIBED MANNER, AND BEEN EXAMINED IN RESPECT OF HIS CASTE, PROFESSION, CONDUCT, LEARNING, AND PARENTAGE.

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