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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
352. The wise man, discriminating thus the real and the unreal, ascertaining the Truth through his eye of illumination, and realising his own Self which is Knowledge Absolute, gets rid of the obstructions and directly attains Peace.
[Truth — The identity of Jiva and Brahman.
Obstructions — mentioned in Sloka 347.]
353. When the Atman — the One without a second — is realised by means of the Nirvikalpa Samadhi, then the heart's knot — viz., ignorance — is totally destroyed.
354. Such imaginations as 'Thou,' 'I' or 'This' take place through the defects of Buddhi. But when the Paramatman, the Absolute, one without a second, manifests Itself in Samadhi, all such imaginations are dissolved for him, through the