Verse 44

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The gate of the Ganga· Verses 39–44

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So a full disgust with it all was born in him from one moment's company with the good, and freed of every tie he went to the gate of the Ganga. Sitting there in the house of the god, holding to yoga, drawing back the whole troop of his senses, he joined his mind to the self. Then, parting his self from the strands by settling into the self, he joined it to the Bhagavan's dwelling, to Brahman, whose being is direct knowing. When his understanding had come to rest in that, he saw the men standing before him. Knowing them for the ones he had seen before, the twice-born bowed his head. Leaving his body at the ford in the Ganga, right after that sight, he took at once the form of those who stand at the Bhagavan's side.

With the servants of the great Person the brahmin went by the sky, mounting a golden car, to where the lord of Sri is.