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ever independent and free), liberation must come without any effort whatever. If not, liberation is realized through concentration. Those who are centred in the self are never affected by any misery or evil.
101. The soul is not destroyed with the destruction of all that may be seen in dream; the same applies to waking experience; and even the suggestion that the first is true because it is all delusion, applies equally to the second.
102. Contemplation on gnosis alone unaccompanied with any suffering, fails, under pressure of calamity or misery; the silent one should, therefore, contemplate upon àtman while accustoming himself to sufferings of
This refers to the chârvákas and the Sankhyas respectively. The former regard consciousness (chit) as the result of mere organization; the latter regard it as an independent and ever liberated principle in mature, witnessing the action of its co-ordinate, matter. In the one case liberation comes with death, in the other it is not to come but always is; and either way personal effort has no place.
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