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meditation ? What is the use of offering lamps in this matter, of making food offerings ? What is the use of chanting a litany of Mantras ? What is the use of going on a pilgrimage or retiring to a penancegrove ? Can Moksa be attained by bathing in water ? Oh, you give up the wrong, worthless practices. Abandon such useless activities.
१२ तसु परिआणहों अण्णु ण को-वि अवरें गण्णे सव्वु-वि सो-वि । सो-वि पढिज्जइ सो-वि गुणिज्जइ सत्थ-पुराणेहिँ वक्खाणिज्जइ ॥ [तं परिजानीत अवर: न कः अपि अपरे गणने सर्वंः अपि सः अपि । सः अपि पठ्यते सः अपि गुण्यते शास्त्र-पुराणेषु व्याख्यायते ॥]
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Know Him. There is nobody else (to be known). In every other deliberation it is He who is one and all. It is He who is studied, it is He who is repeatedly recited. It is He who is described in the religio-philosophical works (scriptures) and the Puranas.
णाहि स दिट्ठि ज ताउ(?)ण लक्खइ एत्थु-वि वर-गुरु-पाआ पेक्खइ । जइ गुरु-वुत्तउँ हिअएँ पईसइ णिच्छिउ हत्थहिँ ठविअउ दीसइ । सरहु भणइ जगु वाहिउ आलें णिअ-सहावु णउ लक्खिउ बालें ॥ [नहि सा दृष्टिः या तद(?) न लक्षयति अत्र अपि वर-गुरु-पादौ प्रेक्ष्यते । यदि गुरु-उक्तं हृदये प्रविशति निश्चितं हस्ते स्थापितं दृश्यते ॥ सरह: भणति जगत् प्रतारितं अलीकेन निज-स्वभावः नहि लक्षित: बालेन ॥)
13 That is not the (right) vision which does not perceive Him. In this matter one should look at (i.e. resort to ) the feet of the Revered Guru. If what is said by the Guru enters the heart, He is certainly seen as if He is in one's palm. Saraha
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