Shloka 7
Adhyaya 38 — Dattatreya on Non-Identification (Mamata) and the Path to Liberation
मत्प्रश्नादेव ते ज्ञानमुत्पन्नमिदमुत्तमम् ।
ममेति प्रत्ययो येन क्षिप्तः शाल्मलितूलवत् ॥
matpraśnādeva te jñānamutpannamidamuttamam |
mameti pratyayo yena kṣiptaḥ śālmalitūlavat ||
माझ्या केवळ प्रश्नामुळेच तुझ्यात हे उत्कृष्ट ज्ञान उत्पन्न झाले; ज्यामुळे ‘माझे’ ही भावना शाल्मलीच्या कापसासारखी उडवून टाकली गेली आहे.
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FAQs
Sincere inquiry and dialogue can precipitate insight; the teacher’s role is to provoke clarity, enabling the student to abandon possessive fixation.
Pedagogical passage within narrative; not a pancalakṣaṇa section.
The śālmali-cotton simile suggests that once insight dawns, the heavy-seeming ‘mine’ bond is revealed as insubstantial and dispersible.