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335. When the external world is shut out, the mind is cheerful, and cheerfulness of the mind brings on the vision of the Paramâtman. When He is perfectly realised the chain of birth and death is broken. Hence the shutting out of the external world is the stepping-stone to Liberation.
कः पण्डितः सन्सदसद्विवेकी श्रुतिप्रमाणः परमार्थदर्शी । जानन्हि कुर्यादसतोऽवलम्बं
॥
wस्वपातहेतोः शिष्टवन्मुमुक्षुः ॥ ३३६ ॥
336. Where is the man who being learned, able to discriminate the real from the unreal, believing the Vedas as authority, having his eye on the Atman, the Supreme Reality, and being a seeker after Liberation,-will, like' a child, consciously have recourse to the unreal (the universe) which will cause his fall ?
[Like &c.-i. e., foolishly. ]
देहादिसंसक्तिमतो: न मुक्ति
मुक्तस्य देहाद्यभिमत्यभावः ।
सुप्तस्य नो जागरणं न जाग्रतः
स्वप्नस्तयोर्भिन्नगुणाश्रयत्वात् ॥ ३३७ ॥
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