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Chapter 15
As a deluded person, perceives the world clearly, so does an undeluded great soul, perceive God clearly. He, who accepts the existence of the world, is deluded, while he who accepts it as kaleidoscopic, is undeluded. The undeluded one, is not affected by pleasure and pain, and he, who remains the same, in pleasure and pain is fit, for attaining Immortality (GIta 2/15). Therefore, here in this verse, the Lord has laid emphasis two times, on the renouncement of delusion, by using the expression 'Nirmanamohah', and also the term Amudhah'.
Delusion can be of two kinds--(1) inclination to the world, rather than to God, (2) not to know the reality about God. In this verse, the expression 'Nirmanamohah' stands for, freedom from delusion of the world, while the term 'Amudhah'[1] stands for true knowledge about God.
God, Who has been mentioned by the expression 'Urdhvamulam' (root above), in the first verse, Who has been called, the Supreme Goal, which should be sought in the fourth verse, and Who has been glorified in the sixth verse, the same supreme abode has been called here, 'Avyayam padam' (the Eternal Goal). Strivers who have become totally free from evils, such as honour, delusion and attachment etc., attain the Eternal Goal, from where, there is no return.
In fact, Eternal Goal, is naturally ever-attained by every human being but a man does not realize this fact as he has turned his eye away from that Goal (God). This can be explained by an illustration. When our train stops at a station, an other train suddenly starts moving, our eye being on the moving train we feel as if our train has started moving. But we come to know the reality, when we look out at the station. Similarly, when a person is attached to the world, he fords himself moving (kaleidoscopic). But, when he looks at the self, he realizes that he (the self), is the same (uniform), it is not kaleidoscopic.
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