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lame to the blind, so he who has realized ùtman never attributes the sight of âtman to the body.
93. Even conditions such as sleep, madness and the like are no cause of delusion to the enlightened, * whereas to that man who, on account of his mind not being cleared of dross, sees every condition as self, all is delusion out and out.
94 He who identifies body with self never finds liberation though full of all learning and ever awake; whereas he who knows the truth of self is ever liberated, though in sleep or madness.
95. Men put faith there where their intellect finds complete satisfaction, and their mind loses itself there where they put entire faith,
* The reading in the text anåtmadarslinâm must in this case be taken as natmadarslinân. This verse admits of two interpretations, and the one given here is preferable to the apparent interpretation inasmuch as following that interpretation we are compelled to violate either grammar or prosody.
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