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If one has adopted [the teachings] with faith, but has not inquired into the Truth, then know that his human birth has gone in vain. ||26||
Inquiry and discrimination are the two destroyers of attachment. Therefore, one should subdue attachment, the enemy of spirituality, by these two. ||27||
Meaning: Inquiry and discrimination are the two destroyers of attachment. Therefore, one should subdue attachment, the enemy of spirituality, by these two. Attachment is the enemy of spirituality, wherever it enters, it destroys the culmination of spirituality. Therefore, to restrain this (attachment), one should adopt the inquiry into the Truth and the discrimination between the body and the soul, or the self and the other. By these two, one should expel the enemy of attachment from the house of the heart; or one should subdue it well and become absorbed in spirituality. ||27||
॥ Thus ends the chapter on the renunciation of attachment. ||
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