Chapter 4 - Textual Examination of the Text

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) bhāvito vivekakhyātirūpo hānopāyaḥ (the means to release- knowledge of the difference- has been perfected). It is the knowledge which arises in the knower of the difference, who has attained conviction that the right vision is established in truth. This is the fourth aspect of knowledge. These four are freedoms of insight which are effected by action i.e., kāryavimukti. The other three are considered as freeing of mind i.e., cittavimukti. Here Vivaraṇakāra has added 'prajñā' in front of the term cittavimukti; thus it becomes prajñācittavimukti.³ .304 5) caritādhikārā buddhiguṇā giriśikharakūṭacyutā iva grāvāṇo niravasthānāḥ svakāraṇe pralayābhimukhāḥ saha tenāstam gacchanti (having fulfilled its purpose, guṇas of the intelligence merge in their own primary cause (into the sense of I) along with mind. It is like the stones falling from the peaks of mountains without a support rushing towards dissolution). 6) na caiṣām pratipralinānāṃ punarastyutpādaḥ prayojanābhāvāt (there is no more appearance of these gunas which have merged completely, because of absence of a purpose for puruṣa). 7) etasyāmavasthāyām guṇsambandhātītaḥ svarūpamātrajyotiḥ puruṣaḥ kevali śuddhaḥ (In this state, purusa, having go beyond 244