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PART ONE
II
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Being, but the very Self of all beings. Yet he worships
Him externally, because it stimulates Divine love, which
in turn rouses the Atman - consciousness and experience
of unity. Vedanta never deprecates such devotion and
worship.
If there is any vein of criticism in this passage, it is
directed towards those who worship minor deities for the
satisfaction of desires, and those who worship an extra-
cosmic God without caring to understand the metaphysical
truth about Him as declared in the Vedanta.)
zpiRm
11k 4-
41sT, IR) Ruik
I
* zdkcAsita ti
(49: People) ;met with mind zr/. what
9.
riga
do
not comprehend by which Ad: the mind Berg is
cognized (0 so nfiq: the sages) sag: say, (a NIT
fqk ; arc [ Krk 41$: ] a-mu% ff).
6. That which cannot be comprehended by the mind
but by which the mind is cognized,' know that alone to
be Brahman, and not this that people worship here.
[NOTES—1
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Cognizes the mind.
—
Mind
comprehends
the world, and the Self comprehends the mind. Mind
receives all the images of objects from the senses, and
carries them to the Self, as it were, and when the Self
cognizes them, then alone the comprehension of the
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