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The liberated (Jiva) though dwelling in the body does not
dwell in it as it were, even like one aroused from dream. (The
awakened man remembers his dream body, but realises it as unreal,
So the liberated Jiva looks upon his body as unreal or a temporary
halting station, not a part of his own self). The ignorant identifies
himself with the body, like the man in dream.
The senses perceive the objects of the senses. The Gunas
perceive the Gunas. The wise (Jiva) does not identify self with these.
He is therefore not distracted.
The ignorant, however, while dwelling in this body brought
about by prior Karma, in which the senses act, thinks that he is the
doer and becomes thus bound down.
The wise one sees with disgust that the actions of others bind
him. Sleeping, sitting, walking or bathing, seeing, touching, smelling,
eating or hearing, the wise (Jiva) does not bind himself like the ignor-
ant, for in those acts, he realises that the Gunas (senses) perceive (and
not his self). He dwells in the body, but is not attached to it, like
the Akasa, the sun and the air. (Space is in all things,'Jut the things
form no part of space. The sun becomes reflected in water, but is
not attached to water. The air moves about all around, but does
not become attached to any thing). By the force of dispassion, the
vision becomes clear. All doubts are removed. And the wise (Jiva)
rises as it were from sleep, and withdraws himself from the diversities
(of body and other material objects).
The Jiva whose Pranas, Indriyas, Manas and Buddhi function
without the promptings of self-centred desires is freed from the attri-
butes of the body though dwelling in the body.
Whether injured by others or adored the liberated Jiva is not
affected in the least. He neither praises nor blames others for their
good or bad deeds or words. He knows no merits nor demerits. He
looks on all with an equal eye. He does not do anything, he does
not say anything, he does not think on any thing, good or bad. He is
self-entranced and moves like a sense-less being (Jada).
If a man well- versed in the Vedas is not fixed in the Supreme,
his labour becomes fruitless like that of a man who keeps a breeding
cow that bears no calf. A cow that does not give milk, an unchaste
wife, a body that is under the control of others, an undutiful son,
wealth that is not given to the deserving and words that do not
relate to me: he only keeps these whose lot is misery.
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