158 VIVEKACHUDAMANI
lute, — and none else, who but dabble in second-hand talks. \_dabble talks. — Reading them from books etc.]
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��357. Following the diversity of the supervening conditions (Upadhis) a man is apt to think of himself as also full of diversity; but with the removal of these he is again his own self, the Immutable. Therefore the wise man should ever devote himself to the practice of Nirvikalpa Samadhi, for the dissolution of the Upadhis .
[When the rose is before the crystal, it also looks red, but when it is removed, the crystal again is transparent. ]
358. The man who is attached to the Real becomes the Real, through his one- pointed devotion. Just as the cockroach thinking intently on the bhrainara is transformed into a bhra,nara.
[ The reference is to the popular belief that the cockroach, through fright, does actually turn green
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