** Janaka said:**
** 12.1 Becoming first intolerant of action, then of excessive speech, then of thought itself, I come to be here. **
STEPS LEADING TO WISDOM
Janaka narrates the stages of discipline. I want to know an idea of [S] Drik, the inmost thing. So I have to detach myself from the [S] Drishyam.
Intolerant: I don’t allow them[objects] to interfere with my knowledge of [S] Drik. Action, speech, thought, these are all [S] Drishyam.
12.2 Neither sounds nor other sense perceptions attract my attention. Even the Self is unperceived. The mind is free, undistracted, one-pointed. And here I am.
**12.3 Effort is required to concentrate a distracted mind superimposed with illusion. Knowing this, I remain here. **
**12.4 Nothing to reject, nothing to accept. No joy, no sorrow. Lord God I am here. **
When the thought of Brahman comes to me. Rejection or acceptance [are] possible when you see difference.
**12.5 The four stages of life, life without stages, meditation, renunciation, objects of mind— nothing but distractions. I am forever here. **
12.6 Doing and not-doing both arise from ignorance. I know this. And I am here.
When there is a sense of duality, then alone one can “give up”. An ignorant man only will think of giving up and shutting himself up.
When you have attained [S] jnanam you have nothing to “give up”. Everything is only Atman.
**12.7 Thinking of the unthinkable One unavoidably conjures thought. I choose no-thought and remain here. **
Exuberance of words and the man is only in the world of [S] Drishyam only.
12.8 Blessed is he who attains this by effort. Blessed is he who is such by nature.
By Nature: This [S] jnanam has been a part and parcel of his life. It is always with him.
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