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and a moment later are coming into
perishing being
But the scer knows the mistry of the dreams and the death. He is fully aware that the events in dreams are illusory, and that, in waking life, the death of the soul with the body is also a fact based upon the ignorance, so the knower is not depressed and distressed at the sight of death for he has a clear idea that soul is not destroyed and that it is immortal, everlasting and eternal
What is tha mative. behind the
penance ?
अदुःखभावितं ज्ञानं क्षीयते दुःखसंनिधौ । तस्मात् यथावलं दुःखेरोत्मानं भावयेन्मुनिः ।।१०२।।
In this verse, one important point is illustrated that when one acquires the knowledge very easily, unlaboriously and without undergoing any penance such knowledge very easily disappears when it is confronted with some dilemma, some miserable occasion. Hence the
