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Upanishads · Muktikā 2.10
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Devanāgarī
वासनाक्षयविज्ञानमनोनाशा महामते । समकालं चिराभ्यस्ता भवन्ति फलदा मताः
Transliteration (IAST)
vāsanākṣayavijñānamanonāśā mahāmate | samakālaṃ cirābhyastā bhavanti phaladā matāḥ
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SanskritIASTMeaning
वासना-क्षय-विज्ञान-vāsanā-kṣaya-vijñāna-exhaustion of habits, insight
मनः-नाशाः महा-मतेmanaḥ-nāśāḥ mahā-mateand destruction of mind, great-minded one
सम-कालं चिर-अभ्यस्ताःsama-kālaṃ cira-abhyastāḥat one time, long practiced
भवन्ति फल-दाः मताःbhavanti phala-dāḥ matāḥare held to be fruit-bearing
Translation
«Exhaustion of habits, insight, and destruction of mind, great-minded one — long practiced at one and the same time, are held to be fruit-bearing».
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Three things are named that must go together: vāsanā-kṣaya, vijñāna, and mano-nāśa — exhaustion of habits, insight, and destruction of mind. And the main point is said: sama-kālam, «at one and the same time». That is, they are not three stages following one another, but three sides of one work, and they must be done together.
This position is worth stating, for it explains the usual failure. A person takes up one: either weaning himself, or reading, or concentration; and each alone gives nothing — as the twelfth verse will say directly. The reason, I think, is understandable.
Weaning without understanding is violence: one weans not knowing why, and returns. Understanding without weaning is bookishness, spoken of at the second verse. And concentration without both is a technique, spoken of at Varāha.
The Vaishnava side holds this joining and has its own: for it śravaṇa, manana, and nididhyāsana — hearing, reflection, and assimilation — go together too, not in turn. Add the word cirābhyasta, «long practiced». It does not say «accomplished», but «long practiced»; that is, the fruit is promised not for completion but for duration, and this, I think, is more honest than any promise of quick success.