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VICHAR MALA.
From a preponderance of good or bad, ignorant pers are subjected to re-birth, and that re-birth may take the bo of an animal, a flea, a tiger, or man; in short it may inclu whatever there is in the creation; hence it is said to be en less; and, the cause of that re-birth is desire, which like the wind, touches all objects, as a result of which, they are made to suffer pain incessantly in their respective bodies; which again are as many as there are things in the world.
Mind has now lost its fickleness and become tranquil. Jiva merges into Self,
And lives; the wise, devoid, of good and bad, Consider this vast creation with its infinite form to be U no other than he.
Like the vast limitless ocean, unbounded by any country resting in its own grandeur my Self abides in Brahma uninfluenced by (Maya) illusion whose nature it is to create what looks at first sight to be impossible. And those who are cntranced in its meshes are subjected to the whirling incessant circle of re-birth, now as a reptile, another time a bird or beast, next a man, or vegetable according to the predominance of good and bad works performed in the past life; these are, so to speak, so many waves in that calm and majestic bed of the ocean of Self. [In other words, the ignorant, for their conceit of the physical body and mistaking Self with it, creating him an agent and enjoyer, a doer of works and forgetting his real nature, are blended with ignorance taking the objective world for a reality and behaving accordingly All that tends to their re-birth. Jiva is produced out f reflex intelligence; from the professor's instruction, by the use of "That art Thou," the pupil's intellect and thought ar made unwavering like [the light of a lamp shut out from th wind] and that helps him to cognise Self, thus enabling im to rest in his own diguity; and in this manner knowing, him to be neither an agent nor enjoyer, he has no inclinatiofa either for good or bad.
