Rişhi: Vāmadeva (RV
4.2.11)
chittim-achittim chinavad vi vidvān pŗşhţeva vīta vŗjinā cha
martān,
Let the
knower discriminate the Knowledge and the Ignorance, the straight
open levels and the crooked that shut in mortals.
He who would know the Truth should constantly
discriminate between the real and the unreal, between oneness and
division, between what leads to the Truth and what pushes away
from it. When one so discriminates and follows only the ways of
Knowledge, his path is straight, wide, open and free. But if one
were to choose the ways of Ignorance, his path becomes crooked,
devious, narrow and imprisoning.
To increase one's consciousness is to grow in
Knowledge; to persist in unconsciousness and sink into it is to
wallow in ignorance. One is the royal road to liberation, the
other is the way to stay in captivity.
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