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IS always the same whether the jar is broken or not, similarly is the Atman always the same despite Its apparent relation to the body. ]

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510. The passing states of the Buddhi such as agentship, enjoyment, cunning, drunkenness, dullness, bondage, freedom and so on, are never, in reality, in the Self, the Supreme Brahman, the Absolute, the One without a second.

[ The Atman is Knowledge Absolute, which admits of no change, while the Buddhi or determi- native faculty, being inert, is subject to change. So the confusion of the characteristics of the Self \vith those of Buddhi is solely due to super- imposition. ]

511. Let there be changes in Prakriti in ten, hundred, or a thousand ways, what have I — the unattached Knowledge Abso- lute — got to do with them? — Never do the clouds touch the sky !

[Prakri/i — the Undifferentiated, described in Slokas io8 and following. ]

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