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process, ' Neti, Neti '—Brahman is not this, not
this, etc. ]
321. One should never be careless in one's steadfastness to Brahman. Bhagavan Sanatkumara, who is Brahma's son, has called inadvertence to be death itself.
[ Sa7mtkumara &c. — In the celebrated Sanat- sujata-Samvada (chapters 40-45, Udyoga Parva, Mahabharata) — the conversation between Sanat- kumara and King Dhritarashtra — there occur words like the following — ^^xK % ^^^Tt ^CfR— " I call inadvertence itself as death," ' &c.
Brahmd's son — and therefore a high authority on spiritual matters. ]
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��322. There is no greater danger for the J7ta7itn than carelessness about his own real natiire. From this comes delusion, thence egoism, this is followed by bondage, and then comes misery.
323. Finding even a wise man hanker- ing after sense-objects, oblivion torments
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