Kaivalya Pada

Meaning · English — Khemarato Bhikkhu

Altered states of consciousness can come from *samādhi*, austerities, prayer, herbs or naturally.

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Diversity and change are nature's bounty.

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Like a farmer, nature picks and chooses, but doesn't directly cause.

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Beings are created by conceit alone.

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The one *citta* is diversified by its various activities.

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Of these, only the meditation-born is fruitless.

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The karma of [such] a *yogi* is neither white nor black; [but] for others is threefold,

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the fruition of which corresponds to the tendency on display at that time.

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The uniformity between [subconscious] activity and memory ensures the correspondence [of cause and effect] despite distance in time, space, and rebirths

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which are without beginning, being based on never-ending desires.

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Because of the connection between cause and effect, basis and support, [it follows that] if one goes, the other must too.

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So, past and future do exist, in their own way.

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Gross or subtle, [things] are [merely] composed of sense-impressions.

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The “that-ness” of an object is [merely the perception of] homogeneous change.

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Materialism and idealism are two, divergent paths [for describing reality].

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If an object were [merely] the construction of a single consciousness, how could it be measured? [If not objective,] what could it be?

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[Yet,] an object can only be known if it excites the *citta*.

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The [idea of an] unchanging “self” arises from continuously knowing this whirling *citta*.

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[But] it cannot see itself as an object.

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Never cognizing both [seer and seen] simultaneously,

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[the best it can do] is to see a previous mind moment by becoming aware of awareness's impact on memory and mental activity.

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Unmoving awareness assumes the shape of the particular conscious experience.

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Any object inflames the *citta* with the seer and the seen.

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Activity combines that object with others, along with the countless underlying tendencies.

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[Directly] seeing this distinction between “being a Self” and “[the process of] becoming” is the counter-whirling.

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The *citta* then inclines towards detachment and is therefore borne onwards towards liberation.

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Activity is a gap in our attention.

Meaning · English — Khemarato Bhikkhu

Calming [all activity] is as described for the *kilesas*.

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Ever intent yet aloof through the second attainment of detachment, [the meditator eventually attains] the “Dharma Cloud” *samādhi*.

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This is a break from the *kilesas* and from *karma*.

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When the imperfection covering “the all” is removed that which remains to be known is little.

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Their purposes served, sense-contact and the sequences of change end.

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“A sequence” [because] an end to change is attainable.

Meaning · English

Kaivalya — liberation — is the involution of the gunas, devoid now of any purpose for the Self; or it is the abidance of the Power of pure Consciousness in its own nature. Thus.