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reasonings, experiences' misery after misery, like a thief, for he does something forbidden.
[ Experiences &c.—The thief is punished for stealing with imprisonment, etc., and the man who identifies himself with the not-Self, suffers infinite miseries. ] सत्याभिसंधानरतो विमुक्तो
महत्त्वमात्मीयमुपैति नित्यम् । FARF terararaat AziE
se dederat atent: ll 332 11 332. He who has devoted himself to meditation on the Reality (Brahman) and is free from Nescience, attains to the eternal glory of the Atman. But he who dwells on the unreal (the universe), is destroyed. That this is so is evidenced in the case of one who is not a thief and one who is a thief.
One &c.—The allusion is to the hot-axe test applied in ancient times to persons charged with theft, etc. An axe would be made red-hot and the accused person would be asked to hold it in his hand. If his hand was not burnt, it was a proof that he was innocent, but if it was burnt, he would be convicted and subjected to the usual punishments. The Chhậndogya Upanishad VI. xvi. makes use of such a parable, to which the present Sloka refers. ] यतिरसदनुसन्धि बन्धहेतुं विहाय
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