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 70 VIVEKACHUDAMANI

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159. It is the foolish man who identi- fies himself with a mass of skin, flesh, fat, bones and filth, while the man of dis- crimination knows his own Self, the only Reality that there is, as distinct from the body.

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��160. The stupid man thinks he is the body, the book-learned man identifies himself with the mixture of body and soul, while the great man possessed of Realisa- tion due to discrimination, looks iipon the eternal Atman as his Self, and thinks, " I am Brahman."

[Three classes of people are distinguished in this Sloka, of whom the Advaitist is of course given the highest place.

Mixture of body a?id soul — The average man thinks he is both body and soul acting in unison.]

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