Verse: 59, 60, 61, 62, 66, 69
Topics:
-Study of scriptures is the means, not the goal. The goal is spiritual liberation.
-Shravanam, Mananam, and Swanubhuti are discussed. Intellectual study of scriptures, by itself, is of no use. Spiritual journey starts with ideas from the scriptures. Deeper contemplation of these ideas is needed, which then provides one their own inner experience.
-Scriptures are of no use once the highest experience is realized. After achieving that state, one may still read scriptures because of their natural inclination to do so.
-Just like medicine removes the poison from a snake bite, spiritual knowledge is the only medicine for spiritual ignorance.
-Just belief does not give experience. Belief should become a deep conviction, which then turns into an experience.
-When one feels a great attraction for scriptures, it comes from some degree of their own experience.
-The spiritual bank balance is discussed. Fruits of spiritual practice are never lost. It even carries over across lives, where one is born with their past good samskaras. Even a little experience now, will become a real experience later.
-To treat spiritual ignorance, one has to practice seven disciplines, discussed previously in the Vivekachudamani.
-The first discipline is a sense of dispassion for things that are impermanent, Cause of unhappiness is assigning permanence to something that is inherently impermanent.