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16.7<br />

As long as there is desire--<br />

which is the absence of discrimination--<br />

there will be attachment and non-attachment.<br />

This is the cause of the world.<br />

16.8<br />

Indulgence creates attachment.<br />

Aversion creates abstinence.<br />

Like a child, the sage is free of both<br />

and thus lives on as a child.<br />

16.9<br />

One who is attached to the world<br />

thinks renouncing it will relieve his misery.<br />

One who is attached to nothing is free<br />

and does not feel miserable<br />

even in the world.<br />

16.10<br />

He who claims liberation as his own,<br />

as an attainment of a person,<br />

is neither enlightened nor a seeker.<br />

He suffers his own misery.<br />

16.11<br />

Though Hara, Hari<br />

or the lotus-born Brahma himself<br />

instruct you,<br />

until you know nothing<br />

you will never know Self.

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