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Chapter IV<br />

Brahman as a Dam<br />

<strong>The</strong> self is a dam, a separating boundary, for keeping<br />

these worlds apart. This dam is not passed by day and<br />

night, by old age, death and grief, or by good and evil<br />

deeds. All evils turn back from It, for the World of<br />

Brahman is free from all evil.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore, having reached this dam, he who is blind<br />

ceases to be blind, he who is miserable ceases to be<br />

miserable, he who is afflicted with disease ceases to be<br />

afflicted. <strong>The</strong>refore, having reached this dam, the night<br />

becomes day; for the World of Brahman is lighted once<br />

for all.<br />

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That World of Brahman belongs to those who<br />

realize It by means of continence (brahmacharya)for<br />

them there is freedom in all the worlds.<br />

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