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doctrine." So it is indeed, Prajapati said but I shall explain the true Self further to you. "Live with me another thirty two years." He lived with him another thirty two years and then Prajapati said, "He who moves about happy in dreams, he is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahinan." Then Indra went away satisfied in his heart. But before he had returned to the gods, he saw this difficulty. Although it is true that that Self is not blind even if the body is blind, nor lame if the body is lame though it is true that that Self is not rendered faulty by the faults of the body, nor struck when the body is struck, nor lamed when the body is lamed, yet it is as if they stuck himn the Self in dreams as if they chased him. He becomes even conscious as it were, of pain and sheds tears in dreans. Therefore I see no good in this."
Taking fuel in his hands he went again as a pupil to Prajapati. Prajapati said: "Well Indra, you went away satisfied in your heart, what has brought you back?” Indra told him his difficulty. Then Prajapati said: “So it is indeed, Indra. But I shall explain the true Self further to you. Live with me another thirty two years." He lived with him another thirty two years. Then Prajapati said: "When a man being asleep, reposing and at perfect rest, sees no dreams, that is the Self, this is the inmortal the fearless, this Brahman." Indra wept away, quite
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