Forty Verses, V. 18

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To those who do not know and to those who do,

the world is real. But to those who do not know,

Reality is bounded by the world; while to those

who know, Reality shines formless as the ground

of this world. Such is the difference between them.

 

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Swaminathan

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To the ignorant and for the wise, the world exists,

The ignorant regard the world alone as real

For the wise, the formless source of the seen,

is real, complete.

 

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S.S. Cohen

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To those who have realised the Self and to those

who have not, the world is real. To the latter its

reality is confined to the spatial measurements

of the world, whereas to the former it is formless,

and shines as the substratum of the world.

This is the difference between the two.

 

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A.R. Natarajan

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