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sires he' has in bin practically. Because begging for his deadly meal, and satisfying his hunger with whatever he gets and the scantiest strip-all these help him to do away with all desire of enjoyment, for he has literally minimized it; such a doctrine is maintajned in scveral works; and taking that for his guide, he lcctures to his pupil on the three different grades 'of indifference :--of the ignorant, emancipated and a theosophist. Guru.
From what you say, after knowledge What harın there can be for desire of enjoyment ? For relation of material well-being,
Destroys intellect and rains knowledge of Self. Pupil. What you say, about there being no harm following after knowledge has arisen from hearing the precepts on the transcendental phrase "That art Thou," yet for a person shewing an inclination for material comforts, is improper. Because the intellect for discrimination of Self and not-Self gets clouded from material attachment and desire of enjoyment, and from an absence of that discrimination, the mind iɛ apt to entertain doubts.
When Self is known to be indestructible, Undecaying, secondless, and infinite; There can be no attachment for the world. Listen to it, and know it to be true.
Pupil, from the hearing of the Hanscendental phrases, when a person comes to know Self (idividuated) is young, indestructible, infinite, secondless, his predilection for world and its goods is removed ; just as a milchty emperor never feels any. desire for becoming the chief of a ew villages. If it be said, mind can never rest without resting or an object, then fix it constantly on the consideration of the Reality Brahma, -that will steady it.
