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I have learned concentration of mind from the maker of
arrows.
The serpent has no home. It roams in solitude. So do I.
Narayana draws in the whole creation at the end of the Kalpa
and becomes one, the resort of all.
By Kala Sakti, the thread, Mahat, first comes out and the uni-
verse is again brought into manifestation. The spider brings the
thread out of himself, spreads out the web and devours it himself,
(There is a kind of wasp, which catches a particular insect and
carries it into a hole. It is supposed that the insect assumes the
form of the wasp through fear.) When either through affection,
hatred, or fear, a man throws his whole heart upon some object and
the mind holds it fast, he attains the form of that object I have
learned this from the wasp.
Tlrus I have learned from my Gurus, My own body is also my
Guru. I have learned from it dispassion and discrimination. The
body is born only to die. Constant misery is its lot. I know the
truths, by a discriminative study of the body. Still I regard it as not
mine and so I feel no attachment for it (The body belongs to the
dogs and jackals who devour it after death. Sridhara^}
What does not a man do for the enjoyment of the body but
it comes to an end after all, having created the germs of another body.
The possessor of the body is now drawn away by this sense,
now by that sense, now by this action now by that action. The senses
suck his very life blood, even as the many wives of one husband.
The Lord created vegetable and animal bodies. But he was
not satisfied with them. For the human body only has the power to
perceive Brahman.
Therefore after many births, when the human body is once
attained, one should strive promptly for his supreme bliss.
Yadu heard these words of wisdom, and he gave up all at-
tachments.
ATMA A REFUTATION OF THE SCHOOL OF JAIMINI,
SKANDHA XL CHAP. 10.
Sri Krishna continued:
(Self-study is the first stage. It leads to the power of discri-
mination. Without self study no progress is possible. Therefore
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