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the latter having fallen away from the body becomes liberated.
44. The deluded takes self to have all the three genders he finds in the objective, whereas the enlightened knows it as something indescribable, eternal, and beyond all speech.
45. The enlightened, though knowing the essence of Self, and though realizing it in the difference of body and self, experiences delusion at times, through the force of impressions surviving his previous condition. ×
46. The objective is all dead matter, the soul is ever invisible; there is no ground, therefore, either for pleasure or displeasure, and I stand entirely neutral in their midst.
47. The deluded deals in give and take with the objective, the knower of self deals similarly with the subjective, whereas one settled in the Absolute deals neither with the one nor the other.
× When he was only an objective soul (Bahirâtmá).
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