Naishkarmyasiddhi Verse Appearing On Advaitin Home Page

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Namaste.

 

I have problem understanding the Naishkarmyasiddhi verse (quoted

below) appearing on our Home Page. Can Sunderji or other scholars

help by checking if the transliteration `pratyaktAsya' is right? I

can't figure out what it means and relate it to the translation

provided, i.e. " immediate self-awareness " . If it is a misprinting

for pratyakSasya, then I have no problem. But, then the meaning will

be entirely different demanding a correction to the translation. The

translation would then be " The true nature of the manifest is without

action, agency in action and fruits of action. " , which is

advaitically quite right and goes well with the second line of the

verse.

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pratyaktAsya svatorUpaM niShkriyAkArakAphalam.h .

advitIyaM tadiddhA dhiiH pratyagAtmeva lakShyate .. 3:71

 

" Immediate self-awareness is the intrinsic nature of the Self.

It is without action, the factors of action and the fruits of action.

It is without a second. This intellect ignited by it, as it were,

appears as the inner Self. "

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PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair