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 VIVEKACHUDAMANI I97

452. The arrow which Is shot at an object with the idea that it is a tiger, does not, when that object is perceived to be a cow, check itself, but pierces the object with full force.

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��453. The Prarabdha work is certainly too strong for the man of realisation, and is spent only by the actual experience of its fruit; w^hile the actions previously accumulated and those yet to come are destroyed by the fire of perfect Knowledge. But none of the three at all affects those who realising their identity with Brah- man are always living absorbed in that idea. They are verily the transcendent Brahman.

[ 27te Prdrahdha Knowledge — The argument

in the Srutis in support of Prarabdha being bind- ing on even the Jnani(as set forth in the first half of this Sloka as well as in Slokas. 445 and 451-2) is only a re-statement ( anuvada ) of the popular view. Strictly speaking, the Jnani him- self is not even aware of its existence. The real truth about it is given in the last half of this Sloka

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