Panchratre Jayakhya Samhita

SR No.: 020424
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Orental Institute
Publication Year: 1967
Total Pages: 588
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 23 MB

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FOREWORD
tion of the two demons Madhu and Kaitabha in much the same form as obtained in the Purāņas. From the grease that came out from the bodies of these two demons the earth came into existence.1
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Soul and its Destiny.
Next is described the conception of Mokşa or emancipation as acknowledged by the Jayakhya. It lays down that emancipation is the true knowledge of the highest Brahman who is the author of the three stages of creation described above. Emancipation means no re-birth, or rather coalescence or merging in Brahman. In order to have no re-birth knowledge of Brahman is more than anything else necessary. The knowledge of Brahman is described as the realisation' of the knowledge of the sameness or the identity of self with Brahman, which is obtained by a continuous practice of meditation and austerities, and which is not in any way qualified by divine or any other kind of help. Two factors" are considered necessary for this realization of self with the highest Brahman, namely, Kriyă and Satta. The first consists in the rules of discipline and austerities, while the second consists in intense meditation through the practice of Yoga. Through these two agencies the knowledge of the identity of the self with Brahman is realised.
1. तदुद्भूतेन मेदेन परिपूर्णा वसुन्धरा ।
ततः प्रभृति कालाच्च मेदिनीति निरुच्यते ॥ 2. ज्ञानेन तदभिन्नेन परिज्ञातेन नारद ।
जायते ब्रह्मसंसक्तस्तस्माज्ज्ञानं समभ्यसेत् ॥ 3. तस्य ब्रह्मसमापत्तिर्याऽपुनर्भवता च सा । 4. ब्रह्माभिन्नात्ततो ज्ञानात् ब्रह्म संयुज्यते परम् | 5. ज्ञानं तु द्विविधं विद्धि सत्ताख्यं च क्रियात्मकम् । Ibid.
6. द्विविधं च क्रियाज्ञानं पूर्वं नियमलक्षणम् ।
यमाख्यं परमं चैव
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p. 30.
p. 32.
Ibid.
एवं क्रियाख्यात् सत्ताख्यं ज्ञानं प्राप्नोति मानवः । ब्रह्मण्यभिनं सत्ताख्याज्ज्ञानाज्ज्ञानं ततो भवेत् ॥ Ibid.