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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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Self, the truly wise man thereafter remains alone, as Atman, the eternal, pure Knowledge and Bliss.
[ 'All this--the objective universe--the non-Self. 2 Root-i. e., Nescience. ] प्रारब्धसूत्रप्रथितं शरीरं
प्रयातु वा तिष्ठतु गोरिव सक्। न तत्पुनः पश्यति तत्ववेत्ता
ऽऽनन्दात्मनि ब्रह्मणि लीनवृत्तिः॥४१६ ॥ 416. The knower of Truth does no more care whether this body, spun out by the threads of Prârabdha work, falls or remains,-like the garland' on a cow,--for his mind-functions are at rest in the Brahman, the Essence of Bliss.
[ Garland &C.-As a cow is supremely unconcerned about the garland put on her neck by somebody, so the man of realisation has got nothing to do with the body. ]
अखण्डानन्दमात्मानं विज्ञाय स्वस्वरूपतः। किमिच्छन् कस्य वा हेतोदेहं पुष्णाति तत्ववित् ॥४१७॥
417. Realising the Atman, the Infinite Bliss, as his very Self, with what' object, or for whom, should the knower of Truth cherish the body?
FiWith what &c.-A reproduction of the sense of Brihadaranyaka IV. iv. 12. He never thinks of himself as the Bhokta the enjoyer, or Jiva.
Cherish-like men of the world. ]
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