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Prays and Sensure cannot touch tne
knower.
अपमानादयस्तस्य विक्षेपो यस्य वेतसः । नापमानादयस्तस्य न क्षेपो यस्य वेतसः ।। ३८ ।।
The person who has been subdued by the love and lust of the body is prone to a deviation of Chitta and is engulfed by passions, desires, aversions etc; and who becomes unhappy for the love of body compells himself to take honour and dishonour of body as his own soul's.
The body is totally an alien thing to and contradictory to soul's nature; still the ignorant are fooled and take to soul whatever happens to body.
Once who has fully conqured and enslaved all his passions never takes honour and dishonour in the contact of his body and his soul, therefore he cannot be unhappy. Acharya says that desire and envy are the great enemies of human beings, and are the very cause of the
