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Ho by whom there has been shaving of the thoughts, he has achloved the cutting of samsara.
136. How will the Self b3 accomplished of him who remains all-pormea. ted by the Peacefui Being ?
How (is accomplished) the elimination of merlts (and demerits) of him, o friend, who wishes (thia) for (tho sako of) the supremo goal ? 137. Ho who is far removed from coming and going (in the samsara), Sovereign in tho throe worlds,
He has been made a god in the Ganges supposedly) venerable, according to the point of view) ho is endowed with knowledge, devold of knowledge. 138. Through merlt, there accrues great power; through power, prido, through pride, delusion of understanding:
and, through delusion of understanding, boil. let us not have merit ! 139. On whom shall I concentrate ? before whom shall I bend? Whom shall I deciaro touchable (or) untouchable and shall I (receive or) avoid ?
O dear, o friend, with whom shall I engago a quarrel? Wherever I contemplale, there is (only) tho Self, 140. If one has aager in the mind and there 18 a quarrel, then, an immaculato ablution shall be made
Wherever I contemplate, there, there is no one, I do not belong to any ono nor docs any one belong to me, 141. You have been bowed to, o noble Jlna, as long as you have not been recognized within one's body;
If you have been recognized within the body, who bows to whom ?
142. Imaginations and indecisions (continue) -though one does not mako karmans which create happiness and unhappiness -
as long as Perfaction whose very nature is the Soif does not radiato within the hoart.
143. "Ho és possessed", people say "he is possessed !" Possessed (though you are said to bo), don't be shaken,
[V.1.X:) proceed to the great City of Perfection, having disrupted deiaslon, 144. If the Imperishablo (vow of) not killing is concelyed, not the smallest misconduct is done.
Write these in your thoughts, fix your mind on thom, and aleop with. ont preoccupation, having stretchod your feet.
145. Why babble and prattie abundantly? the body is not the Self:
