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The desirous and the aspirant for renunciation want to hear this spiritual science. ||174||
This science, by the analogy of the branch and the moon, only shows the direction, but indirect knowledge does not remove doubts about direct objects. ||175||
Meaning: This science, by the analogy of the branch and the moon, only shows the direction, but indirect knowledge does not remove doubts about direct objects. ||175||
Just as, even though there is knowledge of whiteness in the conch shell, due to a defect, there is the perception of yellowness, similarly, even though there is knowledge of the scriptures, due to the influence of false perception, there is the perception of bondage in the soul. ||176||
Meaning: Just as, even though there is knowledge of whiteness in the conch shell, due to a defect, there is the perception of yellowness, similarly, even though there is knowledge of the scriptures, due to the influence of false perception, there is the perception of bondage in the soul. ||176||
Those who, having heard, contemplated, and remembered, experience it directly, do not have the perception of bondage, their soul, free from bondage, shines. ||177||
Meaning: Those who, having heard, contemplated, and remembered, experience it directly, do not have the perception of bondage, their soul, free from bondage, shines. ||177||
Liberation of substance is the destruction of karmic substances, not the characteristic of the soul. Liberation of essence is its cause, the soul is endowed with the three jewels. ||178||
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