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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
glories are infinite and which manifests Itself through the power of knowledge, indivisible, eternal, and one without a second,-as Râhu1 does the orb of the sun.
[As Rahu &c. The reference is to the solar eclipse. In Indian mythology the sun is supposed to be periodically overpowered by a demon named Râhu. ]
तिरोभूते स्वात्मन्यमलतरतेजोवति पुमाननात्मानं मोहादहमिति शरीरं कलयति । ततः कामक्रोधप्रभृतिभिरमुं बन्धनगुणैः
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परं विक्षेपाख्या रजस उरुशक्तिर्व्यथयति ॥ १४० ॥
140. When his own Self, endowed with the purest splendour, is hidden from view, a man through ignorance falsely identifies himself with this body, which is non-Self. And then the great power of Rajas called the projecting power, sorely afflicts him through the binding fetters of lust, anger, etc.
[ ' Projecting power — See note 1 on Sloka III. ] महामोहप्राहप्रसनगलितात्मावगमनो
धियो नानावस्थां स्वयमभिनयंस्तद्गुणतया । अपारे संसारे विषयविषपूरे जलनिधौ
निमज्ज्योन्मज्ज्यायं भ्रमति कुमतिः कुत्सितगतिः ॥ १४१ ॥
141. The man of perverted intellect, having his Self-knowledge swallowed up by the shark of
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