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Those whose mind and intellect are wholly merged in God, who remain
constantly established in identity with God and have finally become one
with God, reach the state of liberation from rebirth. He who with reason
firm and free from doubt, rejoices not on obtaining what is pleasant and
does not feel perturbed on meeting with the unpleasant, that knower of
Brahma lives eternally in identity with Brahma. The pleasures which are
born of sense-contacts are verily a source of suffering only though
appearing as enjoyable to worldly-minded people. They have a beginning
and an end. It is for this reason that a wise man does not indulge in
them. He, who is happy within himself, enjoys within himself the delight
of the soul, and even so is illumined by the inner light; such a person
identified with Brahma attains Brahma who is all Peace. The seer whose
sins have been wiped out, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge,
whose disciplined mind is firmly established in God and who is actively
engaged in the service of all beings, attains Brahma, who is all Peace.
To those wise men that are free from lust and anger, who have subdued
their mind and have realized God, Brahma, the abode of eternal peace, is
present all round.
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