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knowing this thou wilt attain the con- summation of thy life.

292. That which is real and thy own primeval Essence, that Knowledge, and Bliss Absolute, the One without a second, which is beyond form and activity — at- taining That one should cease to identify oneself with one's false bodies, like an actor giving up his assumed mask.

[ liaise bodies — the gross, subtle and causal bodies, which are superimpositions upon the Atman.

Like a?t actor etc. — When the actor has played his part, he is simply a man. So the man of reali- sation is one with Brahman, his real Essence. ]

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