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worse. Knowing this through discrimi- nation one should avoid the external ob- jects and constantly apply oneself to medi- tation on the Atman.
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��335. When the external world is shut out, the mind is cheerful; cheerfulness of the mind brings on the vision of the Paramatman. When He is perfectly real- ised the chain of birth and death is broken. Hence the shutting out of the external world is the stepping-stone to Libera- tion.
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��336. Where is the man who being learned, able to discriminate the real from the unreal, believing the Vedas as author- ity, realising the Atman, the Supreme Rea- lity, and being a seeker after Liberation, — will, like a child, consciously have recourse
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