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VICILAR NALA,
Low that attachment is begotten is now being declared :
As froin wickedness of heart, a good man Is taken for bad, and from a defect Of sight a person discovers
From double vision-two moons in the sky.
It is similar to a wicked man taking a good man for bad, and like the sight of two moons in the heavens from double visiou-a particular disease of the eye.
Thcrcforc abandon conceit for the body, Though its chain is not subject to birth i. e., etornal; Through knowledgc, destroy phenomena. And there is no mistako about it.
Thus then, as attachment to the world is due to illusion caused by a defect (absence of discrimination), you are to abandon conceit for the body, and not to connect it with Self, as “I am thin. I am corpulent." Though for the presence of that conceit ever since a person has learnt to speak, it can be said to be without a beginning and therefore eternal, yet knowledge of Self destroys it certainly, hence you are to acquire it; and when once it has ceased, there can be no subsequent attachment for the world, even by mistake.
IIappiness of Brahma and Indra etc., Resemble caninc ordure; abstain from it. In carth there is happiness only in name, Show no regard for it even by mistake.
Happiness of Brahmâ, Indra and the other Devas should never be desired, for at best it is non-eternal and impermanent, and you are to avoid it as a person does a dog's excrement in his path. Moreover no happiness is present in the earth, io is only a name, just as one born blind was named “Lotus eyed” to no purpose. Therefore, pupil, you are to show no regard and pay no heed to the world even hy mistake
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