■24^ VIVEKACHUDAM ANS
557. The sage who always lives in the Reality—^Brabman—as Infinite Bliss, the One without a second, does not depend. Mpou the customary considerations of place, time etc. for giving up this mass of skin, Sesh and filth.
[He may give up the body any Lime he pleases^ tor H has cerved its purpose„ ]
558,. For, the giving up of the body i& ?iot L-iberatio-u, nor that of the staff and water-bcwly. but Liberation consists in the; destruction of the heart's knot, which is
Nescience.
\ Staff and water -bowl—\}ci<s^ insignia ol a San- nyasin. Mere outward giving up is Kotbii:\g ; they mast have no place in the mind.
Heart's, knot — to bind as it were the Chit of Absolute Knowledge to the inert body. ]
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