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strong intoxication, I was formerly led to think the objective alone to be my self, and did not really know the true nature of the soul within. *
17. Thus giving up all thought of the objective, one should give up every idea about the subjective also;-this is the shortest Yoga, the light of the Absolute Soul
18. For, the formos I perceive can never know, that which knows can never be seen in any form; there remains therefore none to whom I can speak.
19. That others should prove my self, or ( that I should prove the self of others, is all nothing short of madness, for I am always beyond thought and beyond speech.f
* This is supposed to be the stream of thonght in the mind of one who, leaving the objective, has become a subjective soul.
† Verses 18 and 19 explain how and why all thought of the objective as also of the subjective should be given up. Verse 20 explains the real nature of the soul, the real self.
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