Verse 26
How nature falls away· Verses 21–26
श्रीभगवानुवाच ।अनिमित्तनिमित्तेन स्वधर्मेणामलात्मना ।तीव्रया मयि भक्त्या च श्रुतसम्भृतया चिरम्
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21Bhagavan said: By one's own duty done with no motive for its motive, with a spotless self, and by intense devotion to me long nourished on what has been heard; 22by the knowledge in which truth has been seen, by strong detachment, by yoga joined with austerity, and by intense absorption in the self, 23nature, being burned here day and night for the Person, slowly disappears, as the fire-stick that is the womb of fire is itself consumed. 24Her enjoyments enjoyed and then abandoned, and her faults constantly seen, she brings no ill upon the lord who stands in his own greatness. 25For as a dream carries much harm for one who is not awake, that same dream cannot delude the one who has awakened.
26So nature does no harm at any time to one who has known the truth, who joins his mind to me and takes his delight in the self.