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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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Brahman, the Absolute, the One without a second.
[The Atman is Knowledge Absolute, which admits. of no change, while the Buddhi or determinative faculty, being inert, is subject to change. So the confusion of the characteristics of the Self with those of Buddhi is solely due to superimposition. ]
सन्तु विकाराः प्रकृतेर्द शधा शतधा सहस्रधा वापि । किं मेऽसङ्गचितस्तैर्न घनः क्वचिदम्बरं स्पृशति ॥ ५११॥
511. Let there be changes in the Prakriti? in ten, hundred, or a thousand ways, what have I, the unattached Knowledge Absolute, got to do with them?-Never do the clouds touch the sky!
• [ IPrakriti-the Undifferentiated, described in Slokas. 108 and following. ] अन्यक्तादिस्थूलपर्यन्तमेत
द्विश्वं यत्राभासमात्र प्रतीतम् । व्योमप्रख्यं सूक्ष्ममाद्यन्तहीनं
ब्रह्माद्वतं यत्तदेवाहमस्मि ॥ ५१२॥ 512. I am verily that Brahman, the One without a second, which is like the sky, subtle, without beginning or end, in which the whole universe from the Undifferentiated down to the gross body, appears' merely as a shadow.
[ 'Appears &c.-to the ignorant. ]
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