[Advaita-l] source of a sloka or quotation

K Kathirasan brahmasatyam at gmail.com
Wed May 9 02:39:54 EDT 2018


Namaste

Apart from these texts, there is also a variant found in the Vijnanabhairava Tantra:

yatra yatra mano yati bahye vabhyantare'pi va / 
tatra tatra Sivavastha vyapakatvat kva yasyati // 116 

Kathirasan K




> On 9 May 2018, at 2:14 PM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Namaste Subbu ji , Durga ji
> It's interesting to see it figure in Chanakya Neeti. Is there any material
> about moxa puruShArtha in this work?
> 
> It's a beautiful verse which embodies the advaitic vision that viGYAnam is
> more than just an experience which merely arises in seated meditation;
> rather, it's well assimilated self-knowledge which pervades all vRttis
> which arise in the antaHkaraNam.
> 
> This verse figures in shrI bhArati tIrtha's dRg-dRshya-viveka which is a
> text which borrows extensively from  shruti viz., the
> saraswatI-rAhasyopaniShat which has a somewhat similar verse -
> एतैः समाधिभिः षड्भिर्नयेत्कालं निरन्तरम ।
> देहाभिमाने गलिते विज्ञाते परमात्मनि ।
> यत्र यत्र मनो याति तत्र तत्र परामृतम् ॥ ३१॥
> (सरस्वतीरहस्योपनिषदि)
> May one always invest one's time in the practice of these six different
> types of samAdhi meditation. When the identification with the body (thus)
> drops off and the paramAtman is known, (then) wherever the mind moves,
> there is the ('experience' of) parAmRtaM.
> 
> It's instructive to see how the practice and accomplishment of various
> types of samAdhi is endorsed and encouraged by such shruti vAkyas and then
> there is also transcendence of any specific seated vedantic meditation
> practices - yatra yatra mano yAti etc..
> 
> This nuance is sometimes glossed over by many people who critique or
> disparage samAdhi-abhyAsa since they may not have the necessary antaHkaraNa
> shuddhi needed to accomplish the vedantic samAdhis described in the
> upaniShad.
> 
> 
> Om
> Raghav
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed 9 May, 2018, 6:50 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 9 May 2018, 00:44 Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hari Om,
>>> Namaste.
>>> 
>>> यत्र यत्र मनोयथि तत्र तत्र समधिभिः
>>> (yatra yatra manoyathi tatra tatra samadhibhiH)
>>> 
>>> Please let me know  the source of above quotation or sloka?
>>> 
>> 
>> It is in Chanakya neeti 13th Chapter:
>> 
>> देहाभिमानगलिते ज्ञानेन परमात्मनः ।
>> यत्र यत्र मनो याति तत्र तत्र समाधयः ।।१३।।
>> 
>> When the body identification is gone, wherever the mind goes, that is every
>> thought,  can be a samadhi experience.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Subbu
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks and regards
>>> -- durga prasad
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