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How to Withdraw From the Sense-Objects
One should identify himself with Me and abandon the mind which is attached to sense-objects by dwelling on them constantly, as well as sense-objects themselves which influence the mind through cravings, Vasanas and desires.
Wakefulness, dream and sleep, are the three states of the mind caused by the Gunas. The Self is beyond all these states. It is distinct from them, as It is conclusively known and proved to be their witness.
The bondage caused by the mind imparts the actions of the Gunas to the Jiva. Therefore, being fixed on Me, the fourth [1] which is beyond the three states, one should get over the bondage of mind. Then it is possible to abandon those Gunas or objects and their thoughts.
This bondage of Jiva is caused by Ahamkara, egoism or the sense of ‘I-ness,’ which is the cause of all evils. One should abandon egoism and give up all thoughts of mind and of the connections caused by the mind and identification with the mind, by resting on the Turiya or the transcendent.
So long as the idea of diversity or manifoldness is not destroyed by reasoning, man is really ignorant, sleeping while he is waking, just as he is wakeful in dreams.
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