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'''Uparati''', is a [[Sanskrit]] word and it literally means "cessation, quietism, stopping worldly action".<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&beginning=0+&tinput=+uparati&trans=Translate&direction=AU uparati] Sanskrit English Dictionary, Koeln University, Germany</ref> It is an important concept in Advaita Vedanta pursuit of [[moksha]] and refers to the ability to achieve "dispassion",<ref name=eliotdeutsch105>Eliot Deutsch (1980), Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction, University of Hawaii Press, {{ISBN|978-0824802714}}, pages 105-108</ref> and "discontinuation of religious ceremonies".<ref name=gthibaut>George Thibaut, {{Google books|2QswAAAAYAAJ|The Sacred Books of the East: The Vedanta-Sutras, Part 1|page=12}}, Oxford University Press, Editor: Max Muller, page 12 with footnote 1</ref><br />
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According to [[Adi Shankara]] Uparati or Uparama is the strict observance of one’s own [[Dharma]]. ''Sama'' is the restraining of the outgoing mental propensities i.e. the curbing of the mind from all objects other than hearing etc., and ''Dama'' is the restraining of the external sense-organs from all objects other than that. Uparati is ''Pratyahara'', the withdrawing of the Self ([[Vedantasara (of Sadananda)|Vedantasara]] [[Sanskrit prosody|Slokas]] 18-20). These essentials along with ''[[Titiksha]]'' i.e. endurance of pairs of opposites, ''[[Samadhana]]'' i.e. constant concentration of the mind, [[Śraddhā]] i.e. faith in the truths of [[Vedanta]], which are the six-fold inner-wealth <ref>{{cite book|title=Tattva-bodhah of Adi Shankara|author=Swami Tejomayananda|author-link=Swami Tejomayananda|year=2008|publisher=[[Chinmaya Mission]]|page=20|isbn=9788175971851|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JTlm-8YirIcC&q=uparati&pg=PA20 }}</ref> prepare one eager for liberation to gain the knowledge of [[Brahman]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vedantasara of Sadananda (translated by Swami Nikhilananda)|url=http://swamiji.com/Vedantasara-Sadananda.htm}}</ref> Effort is involved in inculcating [[Samatva (Equanimity)|Sama]] and [[Temperance (virtue)#Hinduism|Dama]] but the exercise of Uparati requires no efforts. In the state of Uparati, which is total renunciation of actions i.e. enjoined duties, one discovers an inner poise, silence or joy. The mind which is conditioned to fulfil duties is not free to pursue knowledge. It is through renunciation that a few seekers have attained immortality – not through rituals, progeny or wealth – "na karmana na prajya dhanena tyagenaike amrtatvamamasuh" – ''Kaivalya Upanishad'', 3. Immortality is the state when becoming and being are one.<ref>{{cite web|title=Uparati, the abidance of the mind and the sense organs|author=Swami Viditatmananda Saraswati|url= http://www.avgsatsang.org/hhsvs/pdf/Uparati.pdf}}</ref><br />
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Whereas the fruit of [[Vairagya]] is ''Bodha'' i.e. spiritual wisdom, the fruit of ''Bodha'' is ''Uparati''.<ref>{{cite book|title= The Theosophist - Adhyatma Upanishad of Shukla Yajurveda|year=2008|page=623|isbn=9788175971851|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JTlm-8YirIcC&q=uparati&pg=PA20}}</ref> The best Uparati (self-withdrawal) is that condition of the thought waves in which they are free from influences of external objects ([[Vivekachudamani]] [[Sanskrit prosody|Slokas]] 23).<ref>{{cite book|title=Vivekchoodamani|author=Swami Chinmayananda|author-link=Swami Chinmayananda|year=2006|publisher=Chinmaya Mission|page=37|isbn=9788175971400|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mArVw7yUkCsC&q=uparati&pg=PA37}}</ref> Uparati is the abstaining on principle from engaging in any acts and ceremonies enjoined by the [[Shastra]]s; otherwise, it is the state of the mind which is always engaged in ''Sravana'' and the rest, without ever diverging from them.<ref>{{cite book|title=Five Years of Thesophy|author=G.R.S.Mead|date=February 2007|publisher=Echo Library|page=210|isbn=9781406815283|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ4OyHZvU_sC&q=uparati&pg=PA210}}</ref><br />
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