VIVEKACIIUDAMANI 20I
461. The attributing of Prarabdha to the body even is certainly a delusion. How can something that is superimposed (on another) have any existence, and how can that which is unreal have a birth? And how can that which has not been born at all, die ? So how can the Pra- rabdha exist for something that is unreal?
[ The body being an effect of Maya is unreal, and it is absurd to speak of Prarabdha as affecting this unreal body. ]
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462-3. " If the effects of ignorance are destroyed with their root by Knowledge, then how does the body live?" — it is to convince those fools who entertain a doubt like this, that the Srutis from a re- lative standpoint hypothesise the Pra- rabdha, but not for proving the reality of. the bodv etc. of the man of realisation.
464. There is only Brahman, the One without a second, infinite, without begin-
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