VIVEKACIIUDAMANI 14I
intense darkness effectively vanishes be- fore the glow of the rising sun.
319. Darkness and the numerons evils that attend on it are not noticed when the sun rises. Similarly on the realisa- tion of the Bliss Absolute there is neither bondage nor the least trace of misery.
320. Causing the external and internal universes which are now perceived to vanish and meditating on the Reality, the Bliss Embodied, one should pass one's time watchfully, if there be any residue of Prarabdha work left.
[ Exiertial atid internal universes — the worlds of maUer and thought. The former exists outside of man, whereas the latter he himself creates by the power of thought.
Causing to vanish — through the eliminating
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