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[ 'Suzerainty &c.-Because the realisation of the Self, the One without a second, is the real independence, for it is everlasting Bliss, which there is nobody to dispute. ]
आशां छिन्धि विषोपमेषु विषयेष्वेवैव मृत्योः कृतिस्त्यक्ता जातिकुलाश्रमेष्वभिमतिं मुञ्चातिदूरात्क्रियाः । देहादावसति त्यजात्मधिषणां प्रज्ञां कुरुष्वात्मनि त्वं द्रष्टास्यमनोऽसि निर्द्वयपरं ब्राह्मसि यद्वस्तुतः ॥ ३७७ ॥
377. Sever thy craving for sense-objects which are like poison, for it is the very image of death, and giving up thy pride of caste, family and Worder of life, fling actions to a distance. Give up thy identification with such unreal things as the body and the rest, and fix thy mind on the Atman. For thou art really the Witness, the Brahman, unshackled by the mind, the One without a second, and Supreme.
लक्ष्ये ब्रह्मणि मानसं दृढतरं संस्थाप्य बाह्येन्द्रियं स्वस्थाने विनिवेश्य निश्चलतनुश्चोपेक्ष्य देहस्थितिम् । ब्रह्मात्मैक्यमुपेत्य तन्मयतया चाखण्डवृत्याऽनिशं ब्रह्मानन्दरसं पिबात्मनि मुदा शून्यैः किमन्यैभृशम् ॥ ३७८ ॥
378. Fixing the mind firmly on the Ideal, Brahman, and restraining' the external organs in their respective centres; with the body held
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