Sublime

That is me, and that is not me – renounce all such distinctions. Decide that your Self is everything! Have no other resolutions and be happy!

Malas Āṇava (sense of lack). Māyīya (sense of being separate). Kārma (sense of doership).

The highest state, complete and final, is sahaja samadhi, referred to briefly at the beginning of Chapter Two. This is pure uninterrupted Consciousness, transcending the mental and physical plane and yet with full awareness of the manifested world and full use of the mental and physical faculties, a state of perfect equilibrium, perfect harmony,

After the mind rejects objects, one after another, as transient and unreal, That which survives this elimination is Jnana.

A significant step in the descent of Śiva-Śakti into materiality is the casting of the veil of illusion known as Māyā, where the previously unlimited and expansive principle becomes contracted in time, space, intention, knowledge and action through the kañcukas (more on this soon). The kañcukas give rise to another set of differentiation. Without

To achieve this final state, unbreakable indifference to second and third person objects (vairāgya) and tremendous love to attend to ourself (svātma-bhakti) are required.

Svatantra is absolute freedom. Before we get too far, I want to clarify that svatantra doesn’t refer to how we may ordinarily think of freedom as nonconformity or rebellion against oppression or certain ways of thinking. Svatantra is much more fundamental—it is freedom from the sense of being a limited individual.

attending to the awareness ‘I’ by investigating ‘what is it?’ or ‘who is this I?’ alone is renouncing the five sheaths, discarding them, eliminating them, or negating them.