SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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152 A CHAPTER FROM THE KURAL.
NOTE.
Yoga is a means and not an end. Till Yoga merges into knowledge,
no real knowledge is gained. Even the highest Yoga is no good, unless the
final goal
is reached from whence there is no rettirn. The attainment of
Yoga is really difficult, but this is not all. One can subdue his passions and
desires, and control his senses, but unless he has the Vision pure,"
The
only Truth, then this attainment will be only for a time, and the man
will again be a prey to his senses. To meet this special Buddhist view
that the attainment of mere extinction of all desires is Nirvana, and that
there is no such thing as Brahma-Nirvana, is the special object of the
next couplet.
4. gOUyeSCT/ sULUJgiUa &6V3T(jjV2jL
Five-fold perception gained, what benefits accrue
To them whose spirit lacks perception of the True.
PARIMELALAGAR S
COMMENTARY.
Five-fold perception is the Manas. By gained is meant,
the controlling of the manas and concentrating of it in Darana.
As training of this alone is not sufficient, the author says there
is no benefit, and he brings out by the
.a-ii,
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how difficult a feat
even this attainment of Dftrana is. By these two couplets, the
greatness of Pathijnana is explained by pointing out that with
out this attainment, no Moksha is possible. (And the nature of
this Pathijnana is
the subject of the next couplet).
6TuQurr(Trj&r CT^^SSTSO^D^ ^/ro^sp LDuQun
Whatever thing, of whatsoever kind it be,
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Tis wisdom s part in each the real thing to see.
PARIMELALAGAR S
COMMENTARY.
That is, one must perceive the truth immanent in every
thing, after getting rid of our ordinary notions of them. In the
phrase "(o&n&Q&fLcwosr tt
iuiT^syr<s<SLL QfujLDiTiB^Sff(^Q<frT&S(J^i^Qun0Dfl) t
the words may mean ordinarily the name of king Seraman of a
particular description, but they may mean more particularly