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seen, the ear and what can be heard, the nose and what can be smelled, the taste and what can be tasted, the skin and what can be touched, the voice and what can be spoken, the hands and what can be grasped, the feet and what can be walked, the mind and what can be perceived, intellect (buddhi) and what can be conceived, personality and what can be personified, thought and what can be thought, light and what can be lighted up, the Prâna and what is to be supported by it.
9. For he it is who sees, hears, smells, tastes, perceives, conceives, acts, he whose essence is knowledge 1, the person, and he dwells in the highest, indestructible Self, —
10. He who knows that indestructible being, obtains (what is) the highest and indestructible, he without a shadow, without a body, without colour, bright, yes, O friend, he who knows it, becomes all-knowing, becomes all. On this there is this Sloka :
11. He, O friend, who knows that indestructible being wherein the true knower, the vital spirits (prânas), together with all the powers (deva), and the elements rest, he, being all-knowing, has penetrated all.'
FIFTH QUESTION. 1. Then Saivya Satyakâma asked him: Sir, if some one among men should meditate here until death on the syllable Om, what would he obtain by it?'
2. He replied: 'O Satyakâma, the syllable Om (AUM) is the highest and also the other Brahman;
1 Buddhi and the rest are the instruments of knowledge, but there is the knower, the person, in the Highest Self.
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