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�SSQ VrVEKACMUDAMANI

lent and profound secret, which k the in- most piirport of all Vedanta — the crest of the Vedas — -considering thee an aspirant after liberation, purged of the taints of this Iron Age, and of a mind free Irora •desires.

[ Secret — The discrimination between the Real .and unreal, which is hidden from the vulgar man. The teacher's address is finished here. ]

576. Hearing these words of the Guru, the disciple out of reverence prostrated liimself before him, and with his permis- vsiou went his way, freed from bondage.

577. And the Guru, with his mind ^steeped in the ocean of Existence and Bliss Absolute, roamed, verily purifying the whole world, — ^all differentiating ideas banished from his mind.

578. Thtis by wav of a dialocnie between jthe teacher and the disciple, has the na-

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