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VICHAR MALA.
the dolls , with their three bodies, bands and feet, and orgwus, sensory and active, Brahma has no connection whatever, just as between fighting and wood there is none: and that connection is an imaginary creation of the ignorant. As owls conside, the sun to be dark and that does not affect his light, so is this attribution of the ignorant, of Brahma being subject to change, does no harm to It.
If the world is really non-existent how can knowledge of Brahma destroy it ?
Brahma is a gem priceless, With lustre unrivalled and endless. To say It to be wanting is not correct; So is the visibility of this world
As in a priceless gem its pure brilliance, and unrivalled lustre, is not distinct from it, and it is impossible to remove it ; so if the world is really wanting in Brahma how can it be destroyed ? If it be alleged, knowledge of Brahma causes its destruction as mentioned in the Vedanta then the question is whether destruction takes place in what is eternally removed ? As for instance, no snake exists in a rope,minde is eternally removed from it, yet it is of daily occurrence, and knowledge of a rope in all its parts causes the removal of themistaken snake.
Says Anath, how do you speak of Beginning, middle and end ? As if the sun were not to create the Distinction of night and day; there will be no day and
night.
Says Anathdasji. If naturally the world is non-existent in Brabma, how does it spring up, continue and be destroyed ? As
