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144. It is from these two powers that
man's bondage has proceeded, — beguiled
by which he mistakes the body for the
Self and wanders (from body to body) .
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145. Of the tree of Samsara ignorance is the seed, the identification with the body is its sprout, attachment its tender leaves, work its water, the body its trunk, the vital forces its branches, the organs its twigs, the sense-objects its flowers, various miseries due to diverse works are its fruits, and the individual soul is the bird on it.
[ In tliis stanza Samsara or relative existence is likened to a tree, and the simile is brought out in detail. The appropriateness of the comparisons vrill be patent on reflection. It is this kind of Composition which shows Sankara not only to be a great philosopher but a true poet also. And such Slokas. as the reader will perceive, abound in this masterpiece of Vedantic literature.
S&ul is tht bird &'c. — Compare the beautiful
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