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By knowledge of God, cessation of all bonds
With sorrows perishing, birth and death s
ceasing comes
By contemplating him, with body left behind,
All Lordship Pure Passionless is He". Mantra II,
How is this knowledge of God to be obtained ?
The next verse says,
This is to be known as ever surely settled in the (self,
soul) ; beyond this surely nought is knowable at all. When
one hath dwelt upon what tastes, what is tasted, and what doth
ordain, all hath been said. This is the three-fold Brahm (Sat,
Chit and Ananda) (Mantra 12)."
The unbelieving may ask,
do you say God is concealed in our soul, body, we do
not see it. No it is not these." The answer is given, illustra
ting it at the same time and explaining
in the next Mantra No. 13.
the mode of realization,
as the "Just (outer) form of fire, withdrawn into its source,
cannot be seen, yet there is no destruction of its subtle form,
once more indeed out of the upper and lower stick it can be
drawn, so both indeed are to be found, by means of the
word s power within the body."
This is more fully explained in the next Mantra.
s body taking for the lower stick and for the upper
One (the word), by meditation s friction well sustained, let me
behold the God, there lurking, as it
were."
In the next Mantra, several similes are heaped together to
illustrate the same subject.
oil in seeds, butter in cream, water in springs, and in
the fire sticks fire, so is that Self (Paramatma) found in the self
(jivatma) by him who seeks for Plim with truth and meditation.
The Self pervading all, as butter milk pervades, in meditation
and self-knowledge rooted, that Brahman, theme sublime of
sacred teaching, of sacred teaching theme sublime".
We will quote again Mantra 16 in part IV, relied on by