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UTHURVU-VED.
Those wise men who, abandoning all desires, revere
the devotee who has acquired a knowledge of the
supreme exaltation of God, on whom the whole universe
rests, and who is perfect and illuminates everywhere,
will never be subjected to further birth.
He who, contemplating the various effects of objects
visible or invisible, feels a desire to obtain them, shall
be born again with those feelings : but the man satisfied
.with a knowledge of and faith in God, blessed by a
total destruction of ignorance, forsakes all such desires
even during his life.
A knowledge of God, the prime Object, is not acquir-
able from study of the Veds, nor through retentive
memory, nor yet by continual hearing of spiritual
instruction : but he who seeks to obtain a knowledge of
God is gifted with it, God rendering himself conspicuous
to him.
No man deficient in faith or discretion can obtain
a knowledge of God; nor can even he who possesses
wisdom mingled with the desire of fruition, gain it:
but the soul of a wise man who, through firm belief,
prudence, and pure understanding, not biassed by
worldly desire, seeks for knowledge, will be absorbed
into God.
The saints who, wise and firm, were satisfied solely
with a knowledge of God, assured of the soul's divine
origin, exempt from passion, and possessed of tran-
quillity of mind, having found God the omnipresent
everywhere, have after death been absorbed into him;
even as limited extension within a jar is fry its destruction
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Those wise men who, abandoning all desires, revere
the devotee who has acquired a knowledge of the
supreme exaltation of God, on whom the whole universe
rests, and who is perfect and illuminates everywhere,
will never be subjected to further birth.
He who, contemplating the various effects of objects
visible or invisible, feels a desire to obtain them, shall
be born again with those feelings : but the man satisfied
.with a knowledge of and faith in God, blessed by a
total destruction of ignorance, forsakes all such desires
even during his life.
A knowledge of God, the prime Object, is not acquir-
able from study of the Veds, nor through retentive
memory, nor yet by continual hearing of spiritual
instruction : but he who seeks to obtain a knowledge of
God is gifted with it, God rendering himself conspicuous
to him.
No man deficient in faith or discretion can obtain
a knowledge of God; nor can even he who possesses
wisdom mingled with the desire of fruition, gain it:
but the soul of a wise man who, through firm belief,
prudence, and pure understanding, not biassed by
worldly desire, seeks for knowledge, will be absorbed
into God.
The saints who, wise and firm, were satisfied solely
with a knowledge of God, assured of the soul's divine
origin, exempt from passion, and possessed of tran-
quillity of mind, having found God the omnipresent
everywhere, have after death been absorbed into him;
even as limited extension within a jar is fry its destruction
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