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VIYEKACIIUDAMANI 209

481. My mind has vanished, and all its activities have melted, by realising the identitv of the Brahman and the self; I do not know either this or not- this; nor what or how much the boundless Bliss (of Samadhi) is!

[ This or not-this—2\\ relative ideas, that is. \Vhat or hoiv much &c. — The Bliss experienced in Samadhi is inexpressible and immeasurable. ] /

482. The majesty of the ocean of Su- preme Brahman, replete with the current of the nectar-like Bliss of the Self, is verily impossible to express in speech, nor can it be conceived by the mind, — in an infinitesimal fraction of which mv mind melted like a hailstone getting merged in the ocean, and is now satisfied by that Essence of Bliss.

[ Infinitesivial fr action : Lit. a particle of whose part's part. The Avyaktam or Unmanifest is a part of Brahman (through Upadhi or superimposed limitations ); the Sutratman or the Cosmic Mind is, again, part of that; while the Virat or the Being who considers himself as the Cosmic

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