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purified' of all adjuncts, which is free from duality, and concerns itself only with Pure Intelligence, is called illumination. He who has this perfectly steady is called the man of steady illumination.
[ 1Purified &c.-eliminating the accidental adjuncts and meditating on the common substratum, Brahman the Absolute. See Sloka 241. )
यस्य स्थिता भवेत्प्रज्ञा यस्यानन्दो निरन्तरः। प्रपञ्चो विस्मृतप्रायः स जीवन्मुक्तः इष्यते ॥ ४२८ ॥
428. He whose illumination is steady, who has constant bliss, who has almost forgotten the phenomenal universe, is accepted as a man liberated in this very life.
लीनधीरपि जागति जाप्रद्धर्मविवर्जितः। बोधो निर्वासनो यस्य स जीवन्मुक्त इष्यते ॥ ४२६ ॥
429. He who, even having his mind merged in Brahman; is nevertheless quite alert, but free at the same time from the characteristics of the waking state, and whose realisation is free from desires, is accepted as a man liberated-in-life.
[ 'Is &c.-i. e., never deviates from the ideal life of a Jnâni.
2 Characteristics &c.-that is, cognising the objective world through the senses, and being attached to it, like the ignorant man. ]
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