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VIVEKACHUDAMANr 143

him tlirough the evil propensities oi the Biiddhi, as a woman does her doting" paramour.

[The memory of his sweetheart haunts the man and he is miserable.]

324. As sedge, even if removed, does V not stay away for a moment but covers the water again, so Maya or Nescience also coders even a wise man if he is averse to meditation on the Self.

[ The sedge has to be prevented from closing in> by means of a bamboo or some other thing. Meditation also is necessary to keep Nescience away. ]

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325. If the mind ever so slightly strays from the Ideal, and becomes outgoing, then it goes down and down, jiisl: as a play-ball inadvertently dropped on the staircase bounds down from one step to another. [Ideal — Brahman. Cf, IMundaka II. ii. 3-4.

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