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196. The Jivahood of the Atman, the Witness, which is beyond qualities and beyond activity, and which is realised within as Knowledge1 and Bliss Absolute-has been superimposed by the delusion of the Buddhi, and is not real. And because it is by nature an unreality, it ceases to exist when the delusion is gone.
[1Knowledge &c.-These are Its essence, and therefore can never depart from It, as heat from fire. ]
यावद्भ्रान्तिस्तावदेवास्य सत्ता मिथ्याज्ञानोज्जृम्भितस्य प्रमादात् ।
रज्ज्व सर्पो भ्रान्तिकालीन एव
भ्रान्तेर्ना नैव सर्पोऽपि तद्वत् ॥ १६७ ॥
197. It exists only so long as the delusion lasts, being caused by indiscrimination due to an illusion. The rope is supposed to be the snake only so long as the mistake lasts, and there is no more snake when the illusion has vanished. Similar is the case here.
अनादित्वमविद्यायाः कार्यस्यापि तथेष्यते ।
उत्पन्नायां तु विद्यायामाविद्यकमनाद्यपि ॥ १६८ ॥ प्रबोधे स्वमवत्सर्व सहमूलं विनश्यति ।
अनाद्यपीं नो नित्यं प्रागभाव इव स्फुटम् ॥ १६६ ॥
198-199. Avidya or Nescience and its effects are likewise considered as beginningless. But
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