Sage Dattatreya
KING JANAKA said:
O Brahmin! Think over what you have now learnt, and you will realize. With the wisdom born of your realization, you will inhere as the Self and be eternally free.
DATTATREYA said:
After giving these instructions to Ashtavakra, Janaka sent him away. Ashtavakra reached his own place and put the lessons into practice. Very soon he became a jivanmukta (liberated while yet alive). Thus pure intelligence, free from objective knowledge, has been proved to exist; it can be felt on many occasions in ordinary life. However, it goes undetected because people are in the meshes of Maya and not conversant with it. Alertness alone will reveal it.
Why say so much about it? The long and short of it is this. Objective knowledge is gained by the mind; the mind cannot be objectified. Still it follows that there must be mind even in the absence of objects. Such pure mind entirely divested of all objective knowledge (or thoughts) is pure intelligence. Awareness is its nature. Therefore it is always realized, for no other knower beside itself can ever be admitted.
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