- न गच्छति विना पानं व्याधिरौषधशब्दतः ।
- विनाऽपरोक्षानुभवं ब्रह्मशब्दैर्न मुच्यते ॥६२॥
62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utter the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.
- अकृत्वा दृश्यविलयमज्ञात्वा तत्त्वमात्मनः ।
- ब्रह्मशब्दैः कुतो मुक्तिरुक्तिमात्रफलैर्नृणाम् ॥६३॥
63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the self, how is one to achieve liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman?—it would result merely in an effort of speech.
[Without causing . . . vanish.—By realising one's identity with Brahman, the one without a second, in Samadhi, one becomes the pure Chit (knowledge absolute), and the duality of subject and object vanishes altogether. Short of this, ignorance which is the cause of all evil is not destroyed.]
- अकृत्वा शत्रुसंहारमगत्वाखिलभूश्रियम् ।
- राजाहमिति शब्दान्नो राजा भवितुमर्हति ॥६४॥
64. Without killing one's enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendour of the entire surrounding region one cannot claim
