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The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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consisting of objects and the idea of coming in contact<br />

with them, though such objects do not exist.<br />

88<br />

<strong>The</strong> wise recognize another state, in which there exist<br />

neither objects nor ideas regarding them. This state is<br />

beyond all empirical experiences. <strong>The</strong>y describe the<br />

three: knowledge, the objects of knowledge i.e. the three<br />

states and the supremely knowable i.e. Ultimate Reality.<br />

89<br />

Having known knowledge and the threefold<br />

knowable, one after another, the knower, endowed<br />

with supreme intellect, attains in this very life and<br />

everywhere, the state of omniscience.<br />

90<br />

One should be conversant, at the very outset, with four<br />

things. <strong>The</strong>se are as follows: the things to be avoided,<br />

the goal to be realized, the disciplines to be cultivated<br />

and the tendencies to be rendered ineffective. Of these<br />

four, all except the goal to be realized i.e. the Supreme<br />

Reality exist only as products of the imagination.<br />

91<br />

All Atmans (Dharmas) are to be known, by their very<br />

nature, to be beginningless and unattached like akasa.<br />

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