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(spiritual) health, so as to liberate thyself from the round of re-births. 25. Thou, that perceiveth thyself in thy Self, art the embodiment of intuitive perception and cognition, and sheer purity itself. The aspirant, capable of achieving concentration, can easily attain Samādhi (spiritual communion with the Self), howsoever or wheresoever he may be placed.
26. My soul is ever one, eternal, purged of all impurities, and essentially knowing by nature. All other things are outside it, are the results of their own operations, and are noneternal.
27. When the Self is not indentical with even the body (it houses), how can it be identical with the offspring, spouse or friend? When the skin is removed from the body, how would the pores remain in the latter? 28. In this wilderness of mundane existence, the emboided soul, on account of its association with external objects (other than the self), becomes subject to numerous and various kinds of sufferings. Hence, those desirous of attaining spiritual liberation should shun such contact in thought, word, and deed.
29. Thou would better free thyself from all the trammels of sceptical thinking, which is the cause of throwing thee into the wilderness of samsāra (round of births and deaths), and by realising thy Self as a separate and distinct entity, be transformed (gradually) into the Highest Self-the very Godhood.
30. The Self has reaped here (in this life) the fruit, good or bad, of its own past actions (karman); if a person were to suffer from actions of another or others, then the deeds committed by one self (one's own karman) would have no meaning
