Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Arunachalaramanaya
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Enquiring ‘to whom are these (four defects), karma (or action performed with a sense of doership), vibhakti (or absence of love for God), viyoga (or separation from God) and ajnana (or ignorance of the true nature of God)?’ is itself karma (the path of desireless action), bhakti (the path of devotion), yoga (the path of union) and jnana (the path of knowledge). (How?)
When one enquiries (thus), (the ego or individual ‘I’ will be found to be non-existent, and) without ‘I’ (the individual who has those four defects) they (the defects) never exist. (when the ego and all its defects are thus found to be ever non-existent, it will be realized that) remaining as the (defectless) Self, alone is the truth (that is, it will be realized that the truth is that we have never had any of those four defects, for we always exist and shine as the everdefectless Self).
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Note: The four defects, namely karma or action performed with a sense of doership, vibhakti or absence of love for God, viyoga or separation from God, and ajnana or ignorance of the true nature of God, all exist only for ‘I’, the ego or individual. But if one scrutinizes the nature of this individual ‘I’ by enquiring ‘Who am I?’, it will be found to be non-existent. When the ego is thus found to be nonexistent, all these four defects will also be found to be ever non-existent, because without the ego they can never stand, and thus the truth that we always remain as the everdefectless Self, will be revealed. Hence, since the aim of the four yogas, namely karma yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga and jnana yoga, is only to remove these four defects, and since when one enquires ‘Who am I, the individual for whom these defects exist?’ the truth is revealed that all these four defects are ever non-existent, by one’s enquiring thus one is truly fulfilling the aim of all the four yogas.
Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai - Ulladu Narpadu - Anubandham (Reality In Forty Verses - Supplement) - Verse 14, pg.110 (pdf)
Verse 10 of Upadesa Undiyar may also be referred to here.
