What knowledge (or consciousness) is shining as the form of the pure and motionless ‘I’ (the real Self) in the Heart lotus – know that, that knowledge which is ‘I’ (the adjunctless and thought-free self-consciousness) alone will bestow liberation, the state of Self, by destroying ‘I’ (the ego).
Ulladu Narpadu - Anubandham (Reality in Forty Verses - Supplement), V. 9
Note :
As said in the previous verse, verse 8, that which exists and shines in the heart as ‘I’ is Brahman or Self. This verse further defines that ‘I’, which is the real first person consciousness, as being amala or devoid of adjuncts, which are impurities, and achala or devoid of thoughts, which are movements of the mind. On the other hand, when this first person consciousness which rises mixed with adjuncts in the form of the thought ‘I am this body’, it is the ego the cause of bondage. Therefore liberation, which is the real state of Self, is the state and in which one abides as the Self alone, having destroyed the rising ego.
The teaching given in this verse is that liberation, which is the destruction of the ego, will be attained only when one keenly scrutinizes and knows the true nature of the consciousness which exists and shines within one as ‘I’, the adjunctless and thought free knowledge of one’s own existence. Thus in this verse Sri Bhagavan clearly reveals that, of the two paths mentioned in the previous verse, verse 8, the path of scrutinizing and knowing the true nature of the consciousness ‘I’ alone will bestow liberation, which is the state of self-abidance.
This verse is adapted from verse 46 of Devikalottara – Jnanachara-Vichara-Padalam, while verse 25 of Anubandham is adapted from verse 47 of the same work. Soon after composing these two verses, Sri Bhagavan translated all of the eighty-five verses of the Jnanachara-Vichara-Padalam into Tamil verses, and while doing so He made fresh translations of verses 46 and 47. The following is the fresh translation of verse 46: which means,
“what consciousness (chit) is (shining as) the form of ‘I’ (the real Self) in the Heart-lotus and is pure (nirmala) and motionless (nischala) – know that, that consciousness alone will bestow the bliss of liberation (mukti-sukham) by destroying the rising ego.”
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