Aparokshanubhuti-03

Explanation of Verse No 2

"Indeed, those who are established in that Truth,(with) the Immediate Knowledge explain for those who want to attain Self-realization by their (own) effort should scrutinize (these) again and again."

For the most prepared aspirants, merely glancing through this teaching can be enough to trigger Self-realization, because their mind is already purified and ripe.

The text aims to serve as the immediate cause for Brahman-realization, and that is its central subject and purpose.

"Liberation (mokṣa) is the abiding in one's true nature (sva-svarūpa-avasthāna) through the removal of bondage,

which is in the form of the mistaken identification (abhimāna) with the non-Self body (anātma-deha), wrongly imagined (kalpita) as the Self due to ignorance (avidyā).”