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Chapter 13
Appendix:- As in the sky sometimes there is light of the sun, sometimes it is dark, sometimes there is a cloud of smoke, sometimes the sky is overcast, sometimes there is lightning and thundering, sometimes it rains, sometimes it hails and sometimes different kinds of sounds are produced, but the sky does not undergo any change; it remains the same - untainted, unaffected and immutable. Similarly in the omnipresent Entity sometimes there is new creation and final annihilation, sometimes there is creation and annihilation, sometimes there is birth and death, sometimes there is famine, sometimes there is flood, sometimes there is an earthquake, sometimes there is a terrifying war but there is no difference in that Entity. There may be a lot of topsytmvydom but that Entity ever remains the same - untainted and immutable. This immutability is natural while modifications (attachment) are unnatural and assumed. A person may be bound or liberated, he may be sinful or virtuous, this immutable Entity prevails equally in both of them.
As the Ganges flows continuously but the bedrock, over which it flows, ever remains fixed. Sometimes the water of the Ganges is pure and clean, sometimes it is mixed with dust; sometimes water is lessened while sometimes it is in flood, sometimes the water becomes warm, sometimes it is cool; sometimes the speedy flow of water causes sound, sometimes it becomes calm. But the bedrock remains as if is, it does not undergo any change. Similarly sometimes there are fish in water, sometimes creatures such as snakes etc., come flowing, sometimes planks or beams come swimming, sometimes flowers appear flowing, sometimes rubbish, filth and dung etc., appear flowing, sometimes a dead body seems floating and sometimes a living person comes swimming. They all appear and disappear but the foundation stone remains the same fixed, unaffected and immutable. Similarly space, time, objects, persons, actions, states, circumstances and incidents etc., are continuously changing but the Self (divine Entity) ever remains immovable. All changes and destmction occur in space and time etc., but not in the self.
Yah pasyati sa pasyati:- This expression in the fifth verse of the fifth chapter has been used about the means and here in this verse it has been used for the end (perfection). The same fact will be pointed out ahead in the sixteenth verse of the eighteenth chapter by the negative inference that he who looks upon the pure Self as the doer, that man of perverse understanding, does not see right—'na sa pasyati durmatih'.
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