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withoiit mind, changeless, and formless, — who am the Realisation of Bliss Absolute? The Sruti also mentions this in the pas- sage, " Not touched &c."

[ Sru^i &c. — Brihadaranyaka Upa., IV. iii. 22 — {In the state of profound sleep a man becomes) ■"■ Untouched by merits and untouched by demerits, for he is then beyond all the afflictions of the heart." It may be added here that the experience of the Sushupta state is cited in the Sruti merely as an illustration of the liberated state, which is the real state of the Atman, beyond all misery. Vide Sankara's commentary on the chapter. ]

504. If heat or cold, good or evil hap- pens to touch the shadow of a man's body, it affects not in the least the man him- self, who is distinct from the shadow.

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505. The properties of things manifested do not affect the Witness which is distinct from them, changeless, and indifferent, — as the properties of a room (do not affect) the lamp (that illumines it).

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