Guhagita 5.6 to 5.43 in english

Courtesy: Sri.P.R.Kannan

GUHAGITA

 *अथ पञ्चमोऽध्यायः* 

Chapter Five

 *मायामोहजालम्* 

Web of Delusion of Maya

बद्धो मुक्त इति व्याख्या गुणतो नैव वस्तुतः ।

गुणस्तु मायामूलत्वात् न ते मोक्षो न बन्धनम् ॥ ५.६॥

The explanation of bound and freed is conditioned; not real. The condition is rooted in Maya; there is neither liberation, nor bondage for you in reality. (5.6)

वक्ष्ये शृणु समासेन सर्वसाधनमुत्तमम् ।

व्यावहारिकलोकानां उद्धारार्थं हिडिम्भक ॥ ५.७॥

Hidimbha, I shall tell you in brief the best of all means for the uplift of all the worlds experienced in practice. (5.7)

आत्मरूपैव चेन्मुक्तिः नित्यप्राप्ता हि सात्मनः ।

नित्यप्राप्तस्य चाप्राप्तिः विभ्रमः खलु देहिनाम् ॥ ५.११॥

For one, who has Atma in himself, Liberation is ever attained, if Liberation is in the form of Atma alone. For embodied persons, to consider something which is ever attained as not attained is much delusion indeed. (5.11)

अपरा सा परा मुक्तिः आत्मरूपैव चेन्मतम् ।

तथापि मुक्तिः प्राप्या वा नाप्राप्या वाऽऽत्मना भवेत् ॥ ५.१४॥

If the other alternative of the highest Liberation is accepted to be in the form of Atma alone, then also Liberation is attainable, or not unattainable, as Atma is ever present. (5.14)

From here onwards the arguments relating to the second alternative of Mukti, Liberation being something not ever-possessed, or, in other words, something to be attained afresh, are taken up in detail.

स सम्बन्धश्च साध्यो वा नित्यो वा साध्य एव चेत् ।

अनित्यस्स तु सम्बन्धो भवेन्नित्यो न सर्वदा ॥ ५.१६॥

If that relationship (between Atma and the new found Liberation) is attainable, and if attainable, if we question whether it is eternal, we find that that relationship is not eternal; it can never be eternal. (5.16)

साध्यत्वाख्यस्तु धर्मश्च नैवाभावाश्रयो भवेत् ।

नित्यो यदि स सम्बन्धः तर्हि सम्बन्धसञ्ज्ञिता ॥ ५.१८॥

The quality called attainability cannot be dependent on non-existence. If the relationship is eternal, then only it can be called relationship. (5.18)

तथापि नित्यप्राप्ताया मुक्तेः प्राप्तिस्तु पूर्ववत् ॥ ५.१९॥

Mukti, Liberation is certainly ever attained. For the keen seeker of Liberation, it is Atma. Even so, attaining Mukti, which is ever attained, is as earlier. (5.19)

The means of getting rid of delusion of the world and attaining the eternal state, which is our real, ever-present state, has been discussed earlier.

विज्ञानेनैव नान्येन सत्यमुक्तं चिदात्मकम् ।

अप्राप्तप्राप्तिरूपाय मुक्तेरैक्यं भवेद्यदि ॥ ५.२०॥

तन्न युक्तं द्वयोरैक्यं न सिद्ध्यति कदाचन ।

भिन्नयोः भेदनाशे वा मुक्तिर्भेदे स्थितेऽथवा ॥ ५.२१॥

भेदनाशे तयोरैक्यं घटते नात्र संशयः ।

भेदे सति भवेदैक्यं इति चेत् तन्न सङ्गतम् ॥ ५.२२॥

It is truly said that Atma, which is Awareness, is to be attained through direct experience, not through any other means. If Mukti happens in the form of attaining something not available now with the aspirant and if the aspirant's old and new states are identical, that is not logical; the identity of the two states is not possible. Mukti can happen if the distinction between two distinct states is annihilated and identity is established; no doubt. If the distinction continues and yet if identity is said to have been established, it is not logical. (5.20, 21, 22)

अप्राप्यायास्तु मुक्तेश्च नास्त्यपेक्षा हि साधने ।

साधने सति सा मुक्तिः अप्राप्यैव सदा खलु ॥ ५.२४॥

If Mukti is unattainable, it does not depend on means. Even if means are present, that Mukti will continue to remain unattainable only. (5.24)

सर्वं त्यक्त्वैव मनसा येन त्यजसि तत्त्यज ।

स्वयमेव स्वयं साक्षात् किं वक्तव्यमतः परम् ॥ ५.४३॥

Having discarded everything mentally, also discard that by which you discarded them. You are directly the Self; what more is to be said? (5.43)

Here the second reference in the context of what is to be discarded is actually the mind. With the mind in action, you first discard everything; then discard the base, that is, the mind itself. This is the teaching. Unless mind is destroyed, real Gnana does not dawn.

इति कलिसन्तारक श्रीगुहगीतायां ब्रह्मविद्यायां

अद्वैतशास्त्रे भिक्षुरूपिगुहहिडिम्भसंवादे

मायामोहजालं नाम पञ्चमोऽध्यायः ॥ ५॥

Thus ends Chapter Five titled 'Mayamohajalam', Web of Delusion of Maya, in Sri GUHAGITA, in the Liberator from Kali, in Brahmavidya, in Advaitashastra, in the dialogue between Guha in the form of Bhikshu and Hidimbha.