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VIVEKACHUDAMANI.
[This and the next Sloka set forth what we are to avoid identifying ourselves with. We are the Pure Self, eternally free from all duality.]
माया मायाकार्य सर्व महदादिदेहपर्यन्तम् । असदिदमनात्मतत्वं विद्धि त्वं मरुमरीचिकाकल्पम् ॥ १२३ ॥
123. From Mahat? down to the gross body everything is the effect of Mâyâ: These and Mâyâ herself know thou to be non-Self and therefore unreal like the mirage in a desert.
[Mahat-Cosmic Intelligence. It is the first to proceed from Prakriti or Måyå. For the hierarchy vide Katha Upa. I. iii. 10-11.]
अथ ते संप्रवक्ष्यामि स्वरूप परमात्मनः। Om यविज्ञाय नरो बन्धान्मुक्तः कैवल्यमश्नुते ॥ १२४॥
124. Now I am going to tell thee of the real nature of the Paramâtman, realising which man is freed from bondage and attains Liberation.'
["Liberation : Kaivalya literally means extreme aloofness.]
अस्ति कश्चित्स्वयं नित्यमहंप्रत्ययलम्बनः । अवस्थात्रयसाक्षी सन्पञ्चकोशविलक्षणः ॥ १२५॥ 125. There is some Absolute Entity, the eternal substratum of the consciousness of egoism, the witness of the three states, and distinct from the five sheaths' or coverings:
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