Verse 34

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The form, and what lies past it· Verses 29–34

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The person who, held in check, recites with devotion this secret of the Bhagavan's births at evening and at dawn is released from the whole crowd of sorrows. This form belongs to the Bhagavan, who is himself without form, whose self is consciousness; it is put together within the self out of the strands of maya, the great principle and the rest. As a bank of cloud is laid upon the sky, or earthy dust upon the wind, so the unwise lay the state of being seen upon the seer. Beyond this is what is unmanifest, made up of strands not yet unfolded into their array; because its substance is neither seen nor heard, it is the living self, and it is what is born again.

When these two forms, the real and the unreal, laid upon the self by ignorance, are ruled out by one's own knowing, that is the seeing of Brahman. If that goddess maya comes to rest and the understanding grows clear, one knows oneself to be fulfilled indeed, and is magnified in one's own greatness.