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Essentials of
stage. It is not the essential nature of the activities, but on the
Jiva to do
contrary to
retire from all sorts of
activities
and being
is the
inactivistic to be a knower and a seer very essence of it; and to work in ncy of the essential nature of the the very way to liberation.
In the view of the seer.
घने वस्त्रे यथात्मानं न घनं मन्यते तथा ।
घने स्वदेहेऽप्यात्मानं न घनं मन्यते बुधः ।। ६३ ।।
the congrue
Jiva is
to
It is an entire ignorance to think the body be soul, and this conception of the body and soul is as foolish and delusory as the view that putting on the thick and fat clothes and thinking that the body is accordingly fat and stout.
The seers have an acute and subtle sense of the distinction between body and soul and their peculiar natures.
जीर्णे वस्त्रे यथात्मानं न जीर्ण मन्खते तथा ।
जीर्णे स्वदेहेऽप्यात्मानं न जीर्ण मन्यते बुधः ।। ६४ ।।
