LalithA SahasranAma [737] muktirUpinI

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muktirUpinI : In the form of salvation.

 

By destruction of avidyA or by recovering the fifth state, one does

not obtain the supreme object of human desire [ie salvation], but it

should be said only when one remains in his own bliss, [the real]

salvation comes to join him. The Saura-sam [chap 14] says, "I will now

concisely declare the nature of salvation, by the knowledge of which

supreme salvation is attained by all embodied souls" It is said

knowledge is the means, then refuting that "the knowledge is not the

means, O learned, but is merely calling to remembrance,"

again "knowledge is neither effect nor substance, etc" refuting the

theory that salvation is neither substance, quality, action, nor

sAmAnya, etc [samavAya and abhAva]. "Hence the supreme salvation is

becoming the absolute Self"; thus establishing the real doctrine it

concludes, "Hence supreme salvation is of the nature of the Self, and

this was veiled by avidyA and again revealed by knowledge"

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.