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Talk 149 Verses 556-564

For the Man of Realisation, it matters not where, when or how his physical body drops.This aspect is explained through several examples like the moulting of the snake\u2019s skin, the leaves that fall from a tree, the role that an actor plays, the destruction of a flower or fruit - all of these do not affect the source they came from. The Jivanmukta, similarly, is unaffected by the condition of his body, having shed body identification completely.

In Verse 564 it is said that the stone, the tree, the straw, the grain, the husk, are all reduced to ashes when they are burnt, in the same way this whole universe, the body, mind, intellect, senses are all reduced to the Supreme Self when burned in the fire of knowledge. If one has not burnt the false identification, then when the body is physically burnt, the jivatma still continues and one will continue to take new bodies. But if the ignorance is destroyed with the fire of knowledge, then the cycle stops. All the three cycles will stop - the ignorance cycle, the karma cycle and the birth and death cycle stops. This is because the root cause, which is ignorance has been destroyed.

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