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should be believed, and then that same indeed should be realised by one desirous of liberation.
22. I am in Karmic matter (and thought activity produced by it ) and in physical matter; or I (am) the Karmic and quasi-Karmic matter. So long as this understanding (goes on), indeed (the soul) till then is of perverse knowledge.
23. In (one's pure) soul or in non-soul, in whichever (of the two, the soul) is observed for the time being, in that same, liberation or bondage results (respectively) so (it) is briefly described by the Conquerors.
24. Whatever thought activity the soul produces, the same (soul) is the doer of that thought activity, from the real standpoint. From the practical standpoint (it is) the doer of material Karmas.
25, Other foreign substance, living, non-living, or mixed is I, I am it. I am of them ; and they are mine.
26. It was mine formerly, I was its in the past time. It will be mine again ; I also will be its.
27. Thus the wrong believer indulges in such perverse thought acitvity of soul, But a right believer, knowing the real standpoint, does not so indulges.
28. The soul whose intellect is deluded by wrong knowledge, and (which is) with many kinds of thought activity, says of the matter substance (whether it is) bound or not bound (with the soul): this is mine.
29. That the soul always possesses the characteristic of conscious attentiveness, is seen in the knowledge of the allknowing. Now can the soul be the matter, which thou say'st is thine ?
