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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
 
287. Shunning from a safe distance the body which
has come from impurities of the parents and itself consists
of flesh and impurities-as one does an outcast-be thou
Brahman and realize the consummation of thy life.
 
['Shunning-That is, giving up all identification with the body
which is very impure.].
 
घटाकाशं महाकाश इवात्मानं परात्मनि ।
विलाप्याखण्डभावेन तूष्णीं भव सदा मुने ॥ २८८ ॥
 
288. Merging the finite soul in the Supreme Self, like
the space enclosed by a jar in the infinite space, by means
of meditation on their identity, always keep quiet, O sage.
 
स्वप्रकाशमधिष्ठानं स्वयंभूय सदात्मना ।
ब्रह्माण्डमपि पिण्डाण्डं त्यज्यतां मलभाण्डवत् । २८९ ॥
Bitrlikte
 
289. Becoming thyself the self-effulgent Brahman, the
substratum of all phenomena-as that Reality, give upl
both the macrocosm and the microcosm, like two filthy
receptacles.
 
tinct
 
[1Give up etc. - Cease to care for the whole universe, which is other
 
than the Self, before whose majesty it pales into insignificance.]
• चिदात्मनि सदानन्दे देहारूढामहंघियम् ।
 
निवेश्य लिङ्गमुत्सृज्य केवलो भव सर्वदा ॥ २९० ॥
 
290. Transferring the identification now rooted in the
body to the Atman, the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Abso-
lute, and discarding the subtle body, be thou ever alone,
independent.
 
["'Discarding-Ceasing to identify thyself with.]