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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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421. Being unruffled by earthly troubles is the result in question of knowledge. How can a man who did various loathsome deeds during the state of delusion, commit the same afterwards, possessed of discrimination ?
[ Earthly-lit. visible, i. e., those experienced in this life, as opposed to the invisible ones, i. e., those which are to be experienced hereafter. ]
विद्याफलं स्यादसतो निवृत्तिः
प्रवृत्तिरज्ञानफलं तदीक्षितम् । तज्ज्ञाज्ञयोर्यन्मृगतृष्णिकादौ
नोचेद्विदां दृष्टफलं किमस्मात् ॥ ४२२॥ 422. The result of knowledge should be the turning away from unreal things, while attachment to these is the result of ignorance. This is observed in the case of one who knows a mirage and things of that sort, and one who does not. Otherwise, what other tangible result do the knowers of Brahman obtain ?
[ 'One who &c.—The man who knows the mirage laughs at the illusion and passes by, but the ignorant man runs after it, mistaking it for water. To the sage the world appears no doubt, but he knows it to be unreal and is not lured by it. Not so the man of the world. ]
अज्ञानहृदयग्रन्थेविनाशो यद्यशेषतः। अनिच्छोर्विषयः किं नु प्रवृत्तः कारणं स्वतः ॥ ४२३ ॥
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