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pleasures in the soft touch of cotton et cetera, and the harsh touch of a stone et cetera one should be victor over the sense of touch" For, a person whose senses have been subdued by purity of mind and then whose passions have been destroyed, soon reaches emancipation which has emperishable delight
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We are further told that this emancipation which is the realization of the supreme soul (Paramātman) within the individual soul, can be attained through equanimity10 (Samya) which destroys the dirt of love and hate, greed and anger, conceit and deceit and similar other passions And Śri Krsna proclaims in the Gita that even here the mortal plane has been conquered by those whose mind is established in equanimity
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105 इहैव तैर्जित सर्गो येपा साम्ये स्थित मन ।
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