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means of right knowledge are present, and does not depend upon either place, or time, or (internal) purity.

[Means hwwledge — Realisation, to which

direct perception, inference etc. are subordinate aids. ]

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��532. The consciousness that I am Deva- datta is independent of circumstances; similar is the case with the realisation of this knower of Brahman that he is Brah- man.

533. What indeed can manifest That

whose lustre, like the sun, causes the

whole universe — unsubstantial, unreal, in-

■significant — to appear at all ?

[An echo of the famous Sruti passage — " He shining, everything else shines, through His light all this is manifest."]

534. What, forsooth, can illumine that Eternal Subject by which the Vedas and

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