Competent Charioteer Leads to Emancipation
यस्तु विज्ञानवान्भवति समनस्कः सदा शुचिः ।
स तु तत्पदमाप्नोति यस्माद्भूयो न जायते ॥ ८॥
yastu vijñānavānbhavati samanaskaḥ sadā śuciḥ .
sa tu tatpadamāpnoti yasmādbhūyo na jāyate .. 8..
But if the buddhi, being related to a mind that is restrained, possesses discrimination and therefore always remains pure, then the embodied soul attains that goal from which he is not born again.
Commentary:
“Are the roads really many, or is it one?” is the question. The roads to the senses are many, but to the purified intellect it is one. The one road is Hiranyagarbha, or Vaishvanara, in whom everything gets combined and all roads meet. The diversified activities of the senses can stop only when the unity behind them is beheld, which is not possible without self-withdrawal through intelligence. The five roads merge into a single road. If five horses tied to the same chariot run in different directions, what will happen to the chariot? That is our case. On the other hand, if they all move in one direction, what will be their power! So he whose senses are controlled and whose intellect is purified, he does not come back.
Swami Vivekananda Says —
He who has discrimination, whose mind is always in the way to understand truth, who is always pure — he receives that truth, attaining which there is no rebirth.[Source]