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2Calm &c.-The reference is to Brihadaranyaka Upa. IV. iv. 23. ]
भारूढशक्तेरहमो विनाशः
कर्तुन शक्यः सहसापि पण्डितैः ।
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342. Even wise men cannot suddenly destroy egoism after it has once become strong, barring those who are perfectly calm through the Nirvikalpa Samâdhi.1 Desires are verily the effect of innumerable births.
['Nirvikalpa Samadhi-the highest kind of Samâdhi in which all relative ideas are transcended and the Atman is realised as It is. The term has been already explained. ]
अहंबुद्धैयव मोहिन्या योजयित्वाऽऽवृतेर्बलात् । विक्षेपशक्तिः पुरुषं विक्षेपयति तद्गुणः ॥ ३४३ ॥
343. The Projecting Power, through the aid of the Veiling Power, connects a man with the syren of an egoistic idea and distracts him through the attributes' of that.
[The Veiling and Projecting Powers of Prakriti or Mâyâ have been already dealt with. See Slokas III and 113.
1Attributes &c.-such ideas as, 'I am the doer' and so forth. ]
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