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on the approching dissolution of the body, and the consequent separation from friends etc.
77. He who knows átman as atman looks upon change of bodily condition as having nothing to do with the Self; and stands as fearless as one exchanging one cloth for another.
78. He wakes on the plane of self who sleeps on the plane of experience ; he who wakes on the plane of experience sleeps on the plane of self.
79. He becomes the Immutable who seeing the self within, and the body and its likes without, acquires firm conviction of their natural opposition.
80. To him who has just obtained sight of atman, the world appears as if it were mad or intoxicated ; but the realization of atman having ripened into full conviction, he looks upon the world as upon a piece of wood or stone.
81. Though hearing it affirmed that
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