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48. Identify self with the mind severing it entirely from speech and body, and cease to direct the mind to intercourse established through speech and body.
49. The world is all beautiful and worthy of confidence to those who regard body as atman; where can there be any place of confidence or of beauty to those who know their own self to be the real átman.
50. Keep not the mind longer than necessary on any business other than self-knowledge; you may, on occasions, engage your self in something, through speech and body, taking care not to lose yourself in the act.
51. That which is assured me by the senses is not the real light of my self; it shines to my infinite joy when after holding the senses under control I look for it within.
52. The beginner finds happiness in the objective and feels much pain in passing into the self; whereas one who has realized the Essence sees misery in the objective and all bliss in the self,
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