VIVEKACHUDAMANI 249
573. Hence this bondage and liberation are created by Maya, and are not in the Atman. Hov/ can {here be any id^a ot limitation with regard to the Supreme Truth, which is without parts, without activity, cahi:, unimpeachable, taintless, and One without a second, as there can be none with regard to the infinite sky?
574. There is neither death nor birth, neither bound nor striving for freedom,
neither seeker after liberation nor liberated
— this is the ultimate truth.
[This is a verbatim quotation from the Amrita- bindu Upanishad, Sloka 10. There is not much difftrence between ' Siiiihaka 'and ' Mumukshu.' So long as there is mind, there are all these dis- tinctiotis, but the mind itself is a creation of Avid V 4. Hence the highest truth is that in which the«e is no lelalivity. ]
575. I ha\e to-day repeatedly revealed to thee, as to cue's own son, this excel*
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