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it. So did Vibhishana and others of the Rakshasa race.
Doubtless that Cognition, that Awareness, that All-Self-
Consciousness, may be gained by any who will really turn
to look for it; for the Self is verily everywhere and always,
therefore Here and Now.

Thou too, if thou searches! with the help of those four
helpful' friends, shalt certainly achieve it, and be happy
as the Jivan-muktas(1)—Hari and Hara and the great
Brahmarshis."

CHAPTER IX
Shama and the other Means

"Shama(2) leads to that high knowledge, and is itself in
turn perfected by it. Shama is indeed the Final Peace wherein
there is no error. They in whose hearts has bloomed the lotus
flower of Shama, they have indeed two lotus hearts, like Harp's
self. The wealth of the three worlds wins not such joys as
ever wait on him who owns the wealth of Shama. The moon
in all his glory gladdens not the hearts of men as does the
sight of him who has attained to perfect gentleness and is at
peace with all his fellow-beings. The enemies of such forget
their enmity at sight of him and are converted into friends.
Even the outcasts, even the abandoned, even the thieves and
murderers that may not trust another of their kind, place faith
implicitly in such a one when he approaches them. Even as
the beast of prey and bird of innocence^ good and bad alike,
have trust unquestioning in the mother, so even have all men,
of crooked ways or straight, trust suspicionless in him. The

(1) The 7oga Vdsishfha seems to use this word generally as
including all the stages of Makti in which, an Opadhi, a material sheath,
or vehicle, a body, however refined its substance, is maintained.

(2) Tranq.xtiliity, calmness, non-restlessneas of mind.