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duced from anger; it certainly does not reside in knowledge and perception.
20. Those who have acquired the true faith know that attachment' and aversion with their progeny, anger and the like, arise in consequence of the karma-born influence of matter on the soul; I may be conscious of anger et cetera, but they are not my natural states, as I am only pure knowledge by
nature.
21. That self-conscious soul which should be known through discrimination and intellect, 1 myself am that; all feelings and states other than my own self-consciousness are not me: this is to be known.
Sri Pujyapada Swâmi :
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The wise think that whatever is perceivable by the senses is devoid of knowledge, because it is devoid of consciousness, and the soul that knows is not perceived through the senses, then whom should one talk to? [Therefore one should become engaged in the contemplation of one's own soul in silence.]
23. That which never longs for the undesirable not-self, that which never loses hold on the splendour appertaining to its own self, and that which fully knows all things in all ways, that very self which is to be known by the self himself I am. What the Paramâtman (God) is that I am;
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