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 34 VIVEKACHUDAMANI

79. Those seekers after liberation wlicf- have got only an apparent dispassiont (Vairagya) and are trying to cross the ocean of Samsara (relative existence), the shark of hankering catches by the throat and violently snatching away drowns-them.

half-way.

[ Snatching away — from the pursuit of Brahma- ]nana. ]

80. He who has killed the shark known, as sense-object with the sword of mature dispassion, crosses the ocean of Sanlsa;:aj, free from all obstacles.

[ Dispassion — Vairagya. ]

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��81 . Know that death quickly overtakes^ the stupid man who walks along the dread- ful ways of sense-pleasure, whereas one who vt^alks in accordance with the in- structions of a well-wishing and worthy Guru, as also his own reasoning, achieyas. his end— know this to be true.

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