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VIVEKACIIUDAMAM 037

experiencing fruits of pasL actions, yet imtoiiched by them; though possessed of a body, yet without identification with it; though limited, yet omnipresent is lie.

545. Neither pleasure nor pain, nor good nor evil, ever touches this Knower of Brahman who always lives without the body-idea.

[ A reproduction of the sense of Chhandogya Vlil. xii. I. ]

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��546. Pleasure or pain, as well as good or evil, affects only him who has connec- tions with the gross body etc., and identi- fies himself with these. How can sfood or evil, or the effects thereof, touch the sage who has identified himself with the Reality and thereby shattered his bondage?

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