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external objects, (concentrates) the visual power between the brows', and making the upward and downward life-breaths even, confines their movements within the nose, who restrains senses, mind, and understanding, whose highest goal is final emancipation, from whom desire, fear, and wrath have departed, is, indeed, for ever released from birth and death). He knowing me to be the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, the great Lord of all worlds, and the friend of all beings, attains tranquillity.
Chapter VI.
The Deity said : He who, regardless of the fruit of actions, performs the actions which ought to be performed, is the devotee and renouncer; not he who discards the (sacred) fires, nor he who performs no acts. Know, O son of Pandu ! that what is called renunciation is devotion ; for nobody becomes a devotee who has not renounced (all) fancies“. To the sage who wishes to rise to devotion, action is said to be a means, and, to him, when he has risen to devotion, tranquillity: is said to be a means. When one does not attach oneself to objects of sense, nor to action, renouncing all fancies, then one is said to have risen to devotion. (A man) should elevate his self by his selfo; he should not debase his self, for even (a man's) own self is his
' Cf. infra, p. 78. 'P. 57 and Kathopanishad, p. 167. • Which are required for ordinary religious rites • Which are the cause of desires; see supra, p. 50.
• Abandonment of distracting actions; means scil. to perfect koowledge, says Sridhar • 1.e. by means of a mind possessed of true discrimination.
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