Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Chapter-14: An Introduction

Chapter-14: Tranquillity 

Introduction 

This section consists of only four verses and can be considered as a sacred ‘Psalm on Peace’, wherein the infinite peace of the transcendental state is invoked and glorified. 

Mind is a thought flow. In a Liberated in life, there can be no desires, as he is experiencing in his own Self, the infinite fullness; and since he has no desires he has no thoughts, naturally, he becomes of an empty mind (śūnya cittaḥ). 

One whose mind is thus completely dissolved in the voiceless experience of the Infinite, is asleep to the world of objects and its enchantments. He is awake only to the spiritual world of this peaceful Self. 

Janaka concludes this section by declaring that such an awakened Man of Wisdom can be fully understood only by another, who like him, has experienced the same state of Pure Consciousness.
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