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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
[ 'Supervening adjunct-e: g. water, in which the sun is reflected. It is the water that moves and with it the reflection, but never the sun, though ignorant people may think the sun is also moving. Similarly, all activity which belongs to the Buddhi under the reflection of the Atman, is erroneously attributed to the latter.
21 am &c.-This is how the ignorant man thinks and wails. ]
अले वापि स्थले वापि लुठत्वेष जडात्मकः ।
arg fafscà agãdzuffit au || 408 ||
509. Let this inert body drop down in water or on land, I am not touched by its properties, like the sky by the properties of the jar.
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[1Not touched &c.-Just as the sky seemingly enclosed in a jar is one with the infinite sky, and is always the same whether the jar is broken or not, similarly is the Atman always the same despite Its apparent relation to the body. ]
कर्तृत्वभोत्कृत्वखलत्वमत्तताजडत्वषद्धत्वविमुक्ततादयः । बुद्धेर्विकल्पा न तु सन्ति वस्तुतः
स्वस्मिन्परे ब्रह्मणि केवलेऽद्वये ॥ ५१० ॥
510. The passing states of the Buddhi such as agency, enjoyment, cunning, drunkenness, dullness, bondage, freedom and so on, never, in reality, in the Self, the Supreme
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