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FIFTH CHAPTER
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1. When a man's immortal and clear mineded soul considers
the body (likened to a city) with eleven gates as mutable, he
does not come to grief at all, and one who, by his right know-
ledge, is thus'relieved of grief, he attains salvation on being set
free from the body.
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2. Residing in a pure body, the soul is called
hansa
(swan)
as it retains purity after discarding of impurities
i.e.,
vices; re-
siding in space, it is called
vasu;
sitting at the alter (of sacrifice),
it is called
hota
(sacrificer) and sitting in a body, it is called an
atithi
(guest, as it does not stick to one body but goes through
different wombs). He resides in the bodies of brave and great
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