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man's relative existence is simply the crea- tion of the mind, and has no objective reality.
'^Universal experience — The subject has been touched on already. See Sloka 121, ante. ]
172. Clouds are brought in by the wind and again driven away by the same agency. Similarly, man's bondage is caused by the mind and Liberation too is caused by that alone.
173. It (first) creates an attachment in man for the body and all other sense- objects, and binds him through that at- tachment like a beast b}^ means of ropes. Afterwards, the self -same mind creates in the individual an utter distaste for these sense-objects and frees him from the bondage.
[For the double meaning of the word Guna, see note on Sioka 76. ]
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