VIVEKACHUDAMANI 2^1
means of right knowledge are present, and does not depend upon either place, or time, or (internal) purity.
[Means hwwledge — Realisation, to which
direct perception, inference etc. are subordinate aids. ]
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��532. The consciousness that I am Deva- datta is independent of circumstances; similar is the case with the realisation of this knower of Brahman that he is Brah- man.
533. What indeed can manifest That
whose lustre, like the sun, causes the
whole universe — unsubstantial, unreal, in-
■significant — to appear at all ?
[An echo of the famous Sruti passage — " He shining, everything else shines, through His light all this is manifest."]
534. What, forsooth, can illumine that Eternal Subject by which the Vedas and
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