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NINE UPANISHADS
as his father's representative and acquires all the virtues and
good deeds of his father. Now this is h!s (father's) other self
and when he (father) has done all that he had to do and be-
comes old and dies, he takes rebirth. This is said to be his
.third birth.
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5. The Rishi told that Vamdeva (sage) had said : "I, know
all the births _of the previous gods (sages). In my hundreds
of
births I, previous to my attaining knowledge of God, was
being held bound in, and protected by, different cages of bodies,
but now I, like a hawk breaking asunder and freed from the
snare, have, by virtue of the force of the knowledge of Supreme
Spirit, broken asunder the snare of bodies and emancipated".
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6. The said Vamdeva, knowing all previous births and
deaths and realising God thus, undoubtedly attained, after leav-
ing the body, supreme bliss in heaven, i.e., in the Supreme
Spirit, with all his desires fulfilled.