ahaá¹ brahma paraá¹ dhÄma
brahmÄhaá¹ paramaá¹ padam
evaá¹ samÄ«ká¹£ya cÄtmÄnam
Ätmany ÄdhÄya niá¹£kale
daÅ›antaá¹ taká¹£akaá¹ pÄde
lelihÄnaá¹ viá¹£Änanaiḥ
na drakṣyasi śarīraṠca
viÅ›vaá¹ ca pá¹›thag Ätmanaḥ

 aham - I; brahma - the Absolute Truth; param - supreme; dhÄma - the abode; brahma - the Absolute Truth; aham - I; paramam - the supreme; padam - destination; evam - thus; samÄ«ká¹£ya - considering; ca - and; ÄtmÄnam - yourself; Ätmani - in the Supreme Self; ÄdhÄya - placing; niá¹£kale - which is free from material designation; daÅ›antam - biting; taká¹£akam - Taká¹£aka; pÄde - upon your foot; lelihÄnam - the snake, licking his lips; viá¹£a-Änanaiḥ - with his mouth full of poison; na draká¹£yasi - you will not even notice; Å›arÄ«ram - your body; ca - and; viÅ›vam - the entire material world; ca - and; pá¹›thak - separate; Ätmanaḥ - from the self.


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You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me.†Thus resigning yourself to the Supreme Soul, who is free from all material misidentifications, you will not even notice the snake-bird Takṣaka when he approaches with his poison-filled fangs and bites your foot. Nor will you see your dying body or the material world around you, because you will have realized yourself to be separate from them.

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