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Kärika LXIII Nature by herself binds herself by means of seven
forms; and by means of one form, she Nature binds and releases herself causes deliverance for the benefit of the by means of her Spirit. own developments
“Nature binds herself by means of seven forms"; i. c. by Virtue and other dispositions (all properties of the Will ) except wisdom For the benefit of the Spirit in the shape of Experience and Final Release, she releases herself by herself, by means of one form', i.e. by wisdom—by discrimination. That is to say, she does not again bring about the experience or emancipation of that same Spirit.
Objection —“We have understood all this; what then ?".
Kārikā LXIV Thus it is that from the practice of truth follows The form and
wisdom in the form,-"I am not, naught character of dis- is mine, and not-I"-which is complete, wisdom
pure on account of the absence of error, and absolute.
criminative
(265) The term "truth" stands for the knowledge of Truth.-From the practice of the knowledge of truth, in the formal manner described, through a long course of repeated, uninterrupted and devoted exercise,--there follows the wisdom, inanifesting the distinction of Spirit from Matter. All practice brings about the knowledge of the same object to which the practice perlains; so in the present case practice pertaining to Truth results in the direct perception of Truth. It is for this reason of its leading to Truth that the wisdom is called ' pure.'