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6. ATMANUSHASANA
ATMANUSHASANA is, as the very name indicates, a discourse on the Divinity in man. Each and every one of the 270 verses is an exhortation in language simple, persuasive, penetrating, forceful, and effective to the Atman, the I, the Ego, the Self, to separate its own Self from the nonAtman, the non-I, the non-Ego, the non-Self. This supreme separation is the complete victory of the Soul over Sin, Sorrow, and Death. It is Mokṣa, Freedom, or Liberation -absolute, perfect, eternal, and everlasting.
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