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kadā vāpi: at any time. yadi paśyati: if he sees.
yadikşitam bhinnatayā pramādāt: whatever is seen as difference on account of inadvertence.
That itself becomes the source of fear for this negligent though intelligent person. Vide the śruti: dvitiyad vai bhayam bhavati (Brh.): "Verily from a second, there is fear". Also: sarvam tam parādāt yo'nyatratmanaḥ sarvam veda, ye'nyathāto viduḥ anyarājanaḥ te kṣayyalokā bhavanti (Brh.): "He who sees all this as other than the ātman is made to fall from the path making for spiritual excellence. They who understand differently are subject to other matters (who control them) and fall down into the worlds that make for decay."
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yfacqfa-urundfifore grùsa a: Falchufa greifa i उपैति दुःखोपरि दुःखजातं
निषिद्धकर्ता स मलिम्लुचो यथा ।। ३३२ ।। śrutismṛtinyāyaśatair niṣiddhe
drsye'tra yaḥ svātmamatim karoti 1 upaiti duḥkhopari duḥkhajatam
niṣiddhakarta sa malimluco yatha 11
He who sees or conceives Self in the perceived objects which are condemned by the śruti, the smṛtis and hundreds of reasonings experiences misery after misery like one with guilty conscience of having committed a prohibited act.
The śrutis like: neti neti (Brh.); neha nānāsti kiñcana; nātra kacana bhidāsti (Katha): "Not (this), not (this); there is not the least multiplicity here; there is not the least difference here', and the smrtis like: anadimat param brahma na sattannasaducyate (B.G.): "The Supreme Brahman is without beginning; it is not said to be sat (gross), nor asat (subtle)." These śrutis and smṛtis, and the hundreds of reasonings expounded in the context of the analysis of the five kośas have denied that anything from the body to the antaḥkaraṇa is the ātman. That being so, whoever identifies the atman with these prohibited things, viz. the body etc., is one who does a forbidden act, i.e., he is a sinner.
malimlucaḥ: (ordinarily, a thief); here malināntaḥkaraṇaḥ: one whose antaḥkarana has been fouled, one who is a fool not knowing what should be done. Even as one who is ignorant of what is to be done goes through a succession of griefs, he also is subject to
