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III] Emancipation 61 whatever one knows as this and this (neti lleti). In this infinite and true self there is no difference, no diversity, no meltm and tlmm. It is like an ocean in which all our phenomenal existence will dissolve like salt in water. "Just as a lump of salt when put in water will disappear in it and it cannot be taken out separately but in whatever portion of water we taste we find the salt, so, Maitrey., does this great reality infinite and limitless consisting onlyof pure intelligence manifesting itselfin all these (phenomenal existences) vanish in them and there is then no phenomenal know- ledge" (Brh. II. 4. 12). The true self manifests itself in all the processes of our phenomenal existences, but ultimately when it retires back to itself, it can no longer be found in them. I t is a state of absolute infinitude of pure intelligence, pure being, and pure blessedness.