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Chapter III<br />

<strong>The</strong> Serene Self and Satya Brahman<br />

"<strong>The</strong>se true desires are covered by what is false.<br />

Though they exist always, yet they have a covering<br />

which is false. Thus, whosoever belonging to the<br />

embodied creature has departed from this life, him he<br />

cannot see in this world with his eyes.<br />

2<br />

"Those of his fellows who belong to him here and those<br />

who are dead and whatever else there is which he wishes<br />

for and does not obtain-he finds all that by going in<br />

there (i.e. into his own Self). For there, indeed, lie those<br />

true desires of his, covered by what is false. "As people<br />

who do not know the spot where a treasure of gold has<br />

been hidden somewhere in the earth, walk over it again<br />

and again without finding it, so all these creatures day<br />

after day go into the World of Brahman and yet do not<br />

find it, because they are carried away by untruth.<br />

3<br />

"That Self abides in the heart. <strong>The</strong> etymological<br />

explanation of heart is this: This one (ayam) is in the<br />

heart (hridi); therefore It is called the heart (hridayam).<br />

He who knows this goes every day in deep sleep to<br />

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