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 64 VIVEKACHUDAMANI

Slokas of the Mundaka Upanishad ( III. i. 1-2 ) — "ST ^'irr ^i^r ^m^ " &c. With the ripening of Knowledge the two birds coalesce into one, the Self alone remains, and life is known to be a dream. ]

146. Friend, this bondage of non-Self springs from ignorance, is self-caused, and is described as without beginning and end. It subjects one to the long train of miseries such as birth and death, disease and decrepitude and so forth.

[ Self-caused — not depending upon any other cause.

Wiihout end — Relatively speaking, that is. On the Realisation of the Self it disappears. ]

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��147. This bondage can be destroyed neither by weapons nor by wind, nor by fire, nor by millions of acts — by nothing except the grea^ sword of the Knowledge

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