The Lord Brahma said that he becomes an emancipated person. He who knows Reality is a Parivrāt. Such a Parivrāt roams about alone. Through fear, he is like a terrified deer. He will not be opposed to going anywhere. Having given up all but his body, he will live like a bee, and without considering others as foreign to himself; ever meditating upon Reality, he attains liberation in himself. Such a Parivrāt will be without delusion, without action or causing others to act, being absolved from teacher, disciple, books, etc., and having abandoned all samsāra. Such a Parivrāt roams about thus—without wealth, being happy, able to get wealth (if wanted), having crossed jñāna and ajñāna as well as happiness and grief, being Self-effulgence, being fit to be known by the Veḍas, having known all, able to confer siḍḍhis and remaining himself as Brahman, the Lord. Such a Parivrāt attains the supreme abode of Vishṇu, from which a yogin that has gone to it does not return, and where the sun and the moon do not shine. He does not return. Such is Kaivalya. Such is the Upanishaḍ.

Footnotes

134:1 A higher being with the form of a horse but with a human head.

134:2 A higher being with a human form but with the head of a horse.

134:3 A semidivine serpent with a human face.

135:1 The four Brahmacharyas are: (1) Gāyaṭrī; (2) Prājāpaṭya; (3) Vaiḍika; (4) Naishtika.

135:2 The six Gṛhasṭhas are: (1) Vārṭāvṛtṭi; viz., Agriculture; (2) Sālinavṛṭṭi; (3) Yāyāvara; (4) Ghorasannyāsin; etc.

135:3 The four Vānaprasṭhas are: (1) Auḍumbara; (2) Vaikhānasa; (3) Samprakshāli; (4) Pourṇama.

135:4 They are Viveka, Vairagya, etc.

143:1 A celibate who has completed his first Āsrama.

145:1 Referring to the idea of the worm becoming the wasp, with the latter's frequent stinging.

153:1 The snake, or boa constrictor, is said to remain in one place only on account of its huge body, taking any food that may come to its mouth as it is lying there.

160:1 Probably "others" refer to the subdivisions of the dreaming; so also of other states.

161:1 With Hamsa, there is the inspiration, and with So’ham, there is the expiration.

165:1 The six human infirmities are hunger, thirst, grief, delusion, dotage, and death.

165:2 The six changes are birth, existence, growth, transformation, decrease, and annihilation.

165:3 "Ṭaṭ" has its two aspects of the word and its meaning which is Nirguṇa. In "Ṭvam" also there are two, viz., the disciple and the jīva.

168:1 The nineteen are the five organs of sense, the five organs of action, the five prāṇas, and the four of the mind.

170:1 The Sveṭāsvaṭara Upanishaḍ begins thus.

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