132 VIVEKACHUDAMANI
>( 297. Cease to identify thyself with family, lineage, name and form which per- tain to the body, which is like a rotten corpse (to a Jnanin) . Similarly giving up the ideas that thon art the agent and so forth, which are attributes of the subtle body, be thou the Essence of Bliss Abso- lute.
[ Rotten corpse — The body appears as living only through the erroneous identification of the Buddhi^ and when that ceases on realisation, the body is nothing but a putrid corpse, to be shunned.
Attributes of the subtle body. The Jnani must realise his identity with the Atman alone. ]
298. Other obstacles are also observed to exist for men, which lead to transmigra- tion. The root of them, for the above reasons, is the first modification of Nes- cience they call Egoism.
[ Other obstacles— ~s\iq\\ as desires etc. For the above reasojis — because but for Egoism, which is a product of nescience, there would not be any false identification, and therefore no serious . trouble. J
cJf^vT ^^m^THT gf^^rTlT f^gWT IR^S.11
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