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and hate in the ascetic, he should, at the very moment, fix bis mind on the quiet light of Self, and they are sure to disappear in no
time.
40. The silent ( ascetic) should, with the help of proper discrimanation, tear away the soul from that body whereon he stands attach. ed by love, and fix him-self on that which is yet higher ( viz the self) than that. Thus would disappear all such attachment.
41. Misery, arising from false knowledge of åtman, disappears on being replaced by real knowledge of Self. Those who do not bring themselves to realize the Self will nerer have extinguished (the fire of misery ), though they should pass through the severest penance.
42. He who identifies the Self with the body, hankers after a good make and heavenly enjoyments; whereas he who has realized the Self desires freedom from the body.
43. The former having fallen away from the self puts his self in the bondage (of karma',
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