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89 As gold attains parity in fire, so also the high-souled one in calamity. Truly the time of calamity is a touch-stone for the golden character.
The adversity that befalls one, has surely to be undergone. It cannot be warded off by any kind of evil reflections. So one should suffer it with patience. Otherwise there would be increased the ties of karmas. (It does not denote not to remedy; proper correctives essentially deserve to be taken. ? .. Those (with the idea of super-imposition of their sell] who'identify their bodies with souls, do not realize their true nature-they do not know who I am. This world has forgotten its own self. Oh, of what sort this bewildering delusion of one's own self is !!
92 : Those who have firmly fixed their highest ideal, strive for self-realization. Self-realization leaves nothing to be attained. Real welfare cannot be achieved by one, who is not directed to the soul (3TICAEC) i. e. who does not work with a view to attain self-realization.
