prāyaḥ paraṁ puruṣa te tv ajitendriyāṇāṁ
prāyaḥ paraṁ puruṣa te tv ajitendriyāṇāṁ
vārtā bhavanty uta na vātra tu dāmbhikānām
O Lord! Silence, vows, scriptural knowledge, austerity, reading the Vedas, following one’s dharma, living alone, japa and samādhi lead to liberation. But generally these items become a means of livelihood for persons who cannot control their senses. Or they become professions for imposters.
“Brāhmaṇas gain perfection by liberation, through practices for liberation such as observing silence.” O Lord! Paramātmā! What can I reveal to you? You know everything. There are ten famous causes of liberation mentioned. Rahaḥ means living alone. If they have uncontrolled senses however, their endeavors become means of livelihood for gaining sense enjoyment. The endeavor sometimes becomes the occupation of the imposter. However, it is not a set rule that all will become imposters.
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rūpe ime sad-asatī tava veda-sṛṣṭe
bījāṅkurāv iva na cānyad arūpakasya
yuktāḥ samakṣam ubhayatra vicakṣante tvāṁ
yogena vahnim iva dāruṣu nānyataḥ syāt
You, who possess no material form, have two forms, like a sprout and a seed, effect and cause, revealed in the Vedas. You are not different from either form. The wise seek you out directly in both forms by bhakti-yoga and no other method, just as fire is produced in wood by rubbing alone.
You cannot be attained by silence or other practices if they are without bhakti. Cause and effect, like seed and sprout, flowing from one to the other, the total and individual forms,[113] are your two forms. This universe as a total and as a part is not different from you (na anyat). You do not have a material form (arūpasya). Those with intelligence (yuktāḥ) search to attain you as both the whole and the part, since you are their final cause. They search by bhakti-yoga not by other processes like jñāna. Bhaktyāham ekayā grāhya: I am only achieved by bhakti. (SB 11.14.21) In the case of fire, it is revealed by rubbing (yogena).
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