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PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISHADS
attaining this knowledge; it comes of itself; it is, in the view of the theistic Upanishads, a grace of God. He who has obtained this knowledge continues to live, for he must consume the fruits of his preceding life; but life with its temptations can no longer delude him. By the fire of knowledge his former works are "burnt" and no new works can arise. He knows that his body is not his body, his works are not his works; for he is the totality of the atman, the divine being, and when he dies, "his spirit does not wander any more, for Brahman is he, and into Brahman he is resolved".
"As rivers run and in the deep Lose name and form and disappear So goes, from name and form released, The wise man to the deity."
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