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58. Fools do not know me till I explain myself to them, but even on explanation there is scant chance of their at all koowing the reality. Hence it is useless to trouble myself about explaining anything to them.
59. I am not that * whom I wish to enlighten, and that which I am can not be grasped by another, † whence there remains nothing which I can explain to others.
60. The deluded, with the internal light all obscured, find satisfaction in the world without; the enlightened feeling no curiosity whatever for external things find supreme peace within.
61. The body knows neither pleasure nor pain; fools, nevertheless, continue to attach all sense of bliss or sorrow to that dead mass,
62.. As long as the knower regards the triad body, speech, and mind, as his self, so long does there exist for him the world of
* Viz the body. it Because-átman is ever self cognizable.
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