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egoistic notions). He who is possessed of devotion, abandoning the fruit of actions, attains the highest tranquillity. He who is without devotion, and attached to the fruit (of action), is tied down by (reason of his acting in consequence of (some) desire. The self-restrained, embodied (self) lies at case within the city of nine portals', renouncing all actions by the mind, not doing nor causing (anything) to be done. The Lord is not the cause of actions, or of the capacity of performing actions amongst men, or of the connexion of action and fruit. But nature only works. The Lord receives no one's sin, nor merit either. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, hence all creatures are deluded'. But to those who have destroyed that ignorance by knowledge of the self, (such) knowledge, like the sun, shows forth that supreme (principle). And those whose mind is (centred) on it, whose (very) self it is, who are thoroughly devoted to it, and whose final goal it is, go never to return, having their sins destroyed by knowledge. The wise look upon a Brahmana possessed of learning and humility, on a cow, an clephant, a dog, and a Svapaka, as alike. Even here, those have conquered the material world, whose mind rests in equability *; since Brahman is free from defects and equable, therefore they rest in
CC Pramopanishad, p. 203; Svetâsvatara, p. 332 ; Suua Nipata, psa. The Kathopanishad has eleven portals (p. 133). The nine are the eyes, nostrils, cars, mouth, and the two for excretions.
• As regards the Lord's relation to man's merit or sin.
• As manifestations of Brahman, though of different qualities and clanca As lo Svapéka, a very low caste, see Sutta Nipata, p. 36. • As stated in tbe preceding words.
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