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of seeing it, but he knows, that there is only one being, Brahman, the Atman, his own Self, and he verifies it by his deeds of pure disinterested morality. And so he expects his end, as the potter expects the end of the twirling of his wheel, after the vessel is ready. And then, for him, when death comes, no more Samsâra: enters into
न तस्य प्रणा उत्क्रामन्ति । ब्रह्म एव सन् ब्रह्म अप्यीति! He brahman, like the streams into the ocean:
यथा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रे अस्तं गच्छन्ति नामरूपे विहाय ।
तथ विद्वान् नामरूपाद्विमुक्त: परास्परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम् । ।
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he leaves behind him nâma and rûpam, he leaves behind him individuality, but he does not leave behind him his Âtman, his Self. It is not the falling of the drop into the infinite ocean, it is the whole ocean, becoming free from the fetters of ice, returning from its frozen state to that what it is really and has never ceased to be, to its own all- pervading, eternal, all-mighty nature.
And so the Vedânta, in its pure and unfalsified form, ist he strongest support of pure morality, is the greatest consolation in the sufferings of life and death, Indians, keep to it!
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