यत्रेमे सदसद्रूपे प्रतिषिद्धे स्वसंविदा ।
अविद्ययात्मनि कृते इति तद्ब्रह्मदर्शनम् ॥
yatreme sad-asad-rūpe pratiṣiddhe sva-saṁvidā |
avidyayātmani kṛte iti tad brahma-darśanam ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.3.33; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 3)
“That [vision] wherein the gross and subtle bodies are negated [i.e., understood to not be the self] through full knowledge of the self, such that they are [recognized to have been] superimposed upon the self by ignorance (avidyā) is vision (darśana) [i.e., direct experience (sākṣātkāra)] of Brahman.”
Commentary
jīvata evāvidyā-kalpita-māyā-kārya-sambandha-mithyātva-jñāpaka-jīva-svarūpa-sākṣātkāreṇa tādātmyāpanna-brahma-sākṣātkāro jīvan-mukti-viśeṣa ity arthaḥ |
(Excerpt from Prīti Sandarbha: 3)
“Direct perception (sākṣātkāra) of Brahman acquired through [perception of] a qualified sameness in nature (tādātmya) [i.e., an acquired, non-ontological oneness with Brahman] by means of a direct perception, verily while living, of the essential nature of the jīva that makes known the falsity of any relation with the effects of māyā fabricated out of ignorance (avidyā) is a specific type of jīvan-mukti.”