3o VIVEKACHUDAMANI
ideas Gi ' I ' and ' mine,' amidst the vaned enjoyment of results achieved by himself.
{^Binding Prafias — strictly speaking, it is
our attachment for these that binds us. ]
179. Man's transmigration is due to the evil of siiperimposition, and the bondage of superimposition is created by himself and none else. It is this that causes the misery of birth etc. for the man of non- discrimination who is tainted by Rajas and Tamas.
[ Superimpositio7i — This is the favourite theme of the Vedanta Philosophy, to explain how the ever-free Self came to be bound at all. The whole thing is a mistaken identit}^, a self-hypnotism, it says, and the way out of it lies in de-hypnotising ourselves. ]
180. Hence sages who have fathomed its secret have designated the mind alone as Avidya or Ignorance, by which alone the universe is moved to and fro, like masses of clouds by the wind.
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