198 VIVEKACHUDAMANI
and in Sloka 463, and reasons for this view are set forth in Sloka 454 et seq. We may add in passing that we have here the boldest pronounce- ment of the exahed status of a man of realisation, who is affected by nothing whatsoever in creation.]
454. For the sage who lives in his own Self as the Brahman devoid of the identi- fication with the limiting adjuncts — the One without a second, the question of the existence of Prarabdha work is meaning- less, like the question of a man who has awakened from sleep having any connec- tion with the objects seen in the dream- state.
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455. The man who has awakened from sleep never has any idea of ^I' or 'mine* with regard to his dream-body and the dream-objects that ministered to that body, but lives quite awake, as his own Self*
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