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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
from it. The relation between the Atman and Buddhi is due to a false knowledge.
[ Super-imposed attributes : Just as a crystal placed near a red flower seems to appear as red; or when we look at a thing behind a curtain through an aperture, as the aperture becomes bigger and bigger we see more and more of the thing behind; but we erroneously think that the thing is growing, whereas, in reality, all the change takes place in the curtain only. Similarly we see the Atman through the covering of Prakriti or Nature, of which Buddhi, etc., are manifestations, and Nature which is continually changing, leads us to think that the Atman back of it is changing too, which is a mistake. ]
विनिवृत्तिर्भवेत्तस्य सम्यग्ज्ञानेन नान्यथा। ब्रह्मात्मैकत्वविज्ञानं सम्यग्ज्ञानं श्रुतेर्मतम् ॥ २०२॥
202. The cessation of that superimposition takes place through perfect knowledge, and by no other means. Perfect knowledge, according to the Srutis, consists in the realisation of the identity of the individual soul and Brahman.
तदात्मानात्मनोः सम्यग्विवेकेनैव सिध्यति । ततो विवेकः कर्तव्यः प्रत्यगात्मसदात्मनोः ॥२०३ ॥
203. This realisation is attained by a perfect discrimination between the Self and non-Self. Therefore one must strive for the discrimination between the individual soul and the eternal Self.
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