VIVEKACHUDAMAM 33
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��11 . Sense-objects are more virulent in their evil effects than the poison of the cobra even. Poison kills one who takes it, but those others kill one vvho even looks at them through the eyes.
\Looksat them eyes. — The mention of the
eyes here is only typical, and implies the other sense-organs also ; contact with the external world by any organ, is intended. ]
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78. He who is free from the terrible fetters of the hankering for the sense- objects so very difficult to get rid of, is alone fit for liberation, and none else. — even though he be versed in all the six Shastras.
[ Six Shastras. — The six schools of Indian philosophy are meant. Mere book-learning with- out ^h^Jieart^sj^earning for emancipationywill net produce any effect. ]
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