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knowing this thou wilt attain the con- summation of thy life.
292. That which is real and thy own primeval Essence, that Knowledge, and Bliss Absolute, the One without a second, which is beyond form and activity — at- taining That one should cease to identify oneself with one's false bodies, like an actor giving up his assumed mask.
[ liaise bodies — the gross, subtle and causal bodies, which are superimpositions upon the Atman.
Like a?t actor etc. — When the actor has played his part, he is simply a man. So the man of reali- sation is one with Brahman, his real Essence. ]
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��293. This objective universe is absolute- 1^ ly unreal ; neither is Egoism a reality, for it is observed to be momentary. How cau the perception that I know all, be
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