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 190 VIVEKACHUDAMANI

[ ' / and mine ' — that * I ' am fair or ' I ' am stout &c., or that this body is ' mine.'

Shadoiv — See Sloka 413.]

432. Not dwelling on the past, taking no thought for the future and looking with indifference upon the present, are characteristics of one liberated-in-life.

433. Looking everywhere with an eye of equality in this world full of elements possessing merits and demerits, and dis- tinct by nature from one another, — is a

characteristic of one liberated-in-life.

[ Looki?ig &€. — The world is so full of diversity, yet the man of Realisation looks behind, and sees the one Brahman in everything.

Nature — preponderance of one or other of the three Gunas. ]

434. When things pleasant or painful present themselves, to remain unruffled in mind in both cases, through sameness of attitude, is a characteristic of one liberated- in-life.

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