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Summary:

Gaudapada Karika, CH3, V45: Meditative joy points to your nature – don't mistake the taste for totality.

Gaudapada Karika – CH3, Verse 45
Discrimination Keeps Away Attachment

न आस्वादयेत् सुखम् तत्र निःसङ्गः प्रज्ञया भवेत् । निश्चलम् निश्चलः चित्तः एकी-कुर्यात् प्रयत्नतः ॥४५॥
na āsvādayet sukham tatra niḥsaṅgaḥ prajñayā bhavet | niścalam niścalaḥ cittaḥ ekī-kuryāt prayatnataḥ ||45||

May one not get oneself fascinated by the joy in that state; may one be free from attachment by using discrimination. If the mind, being absorbed in atman, again is moving towards objects, may one see it is one with atman, with alertness.

Commentary:

The absorption in meditation is useful far as letting you know definitively you are more then the thought. But the flip side is it comes with joy which practitioner attempts to extend – mistaking it for ātmānanda.

Absolute is not experienceable like the world of duality. When absorption (or subtlety of mind) ends, atma remains to illumine that condition also. Thus think not, that thoughtlessness, sadness or any mind state displaces atma.

Affirmation to whatever happiness arises, “This is a taster of my nature. I am so much more then this”.

This ensures (a) you remove any ideas of what’s it like after dropping the body, (b) your discernment remains stronger then even the most desired state in the universe (which is the anandamaya-kosha) that all beings work to.

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Recorded 10 July, 2026