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( 57 ) acquired [ .e., then there is nothing left to be given up, and nothing to be acquired ].
73. Victory to this Effulgence of pure Intelligence, in the splendour of whose allembracing knowledge the three worlds appear as a small object floating in an ocean, who, free from all kinds of affections, always retains his own nature, who having drunk to his satisfaction at the jogous stream of his own glory, is engaged in the enjoyment of undying bliss and who is like one blaze of supreme, unwavering brilliance. Sri Amitgati Acharya :
74. O my divine Soul! I have destroyed my sense of attachment for everything else but thee; may my mind be always at equilibrium, in pleasure and pain, among friends and foes, in gain and in loss, at home and abroad.
75. May that God of gods be enshrined in my heart who is the object of contemplation on the part of assemblies of ascetic-saints, who is adored by devas and kings of men, and whose glory is sung in the Vedas, Puranas and Scriptures.
76. He whose nature consists in knowledge and perception, who is blissfulness itself, who is free from all kinds of worldly imperfections, who is to be known by means of pure self-contemplation, and who is regarded as the Greatest
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