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thinking that will conduce to the well-being of the body, but these in turn throw him into a terrible bondage, and he has to abjure them wholly to attain his freedom, as the caterpillar has to cut through its cocoon. ) भतस्मिंस्तबुद्धिः प्रभवति विमूढस्य तमसा
विवेकाभावाद्वै स्फुरति भुजगे रज्जुधिषणा । ततोऽनर्थवातो निपतति समादातुरधिकस्ततो योऽसद्माहः स हि भवति बन्धः
शृणु सखे ॥ १३८॥ ___138. One who is overpowered by ignorance : mistakes a thing for what it is not: It is the absence of discrimination that causes one to mistake a snake for a rope and great dangers overtake him when he seizes it through that wrong notion. Hence, listen, my friend, it is the mistaking of transitory things as real that constitutes bondage.
['Discrimination-between what is real (viz. the Self) and what is not real (viz. the phenomenal world).] अखण्डनित्याद्वयबोधशक्तया
स्फुरन्तमात्मानमनन्तवैभवम् । समावृणोत्यावृतिशक्तिरेषा
तमोमयी राहुरिवार्कविम्बम् ॥ १३६ ॥ 139. This veiling power (Avriti), which preponderates in ignorance, covers the Self, whose
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