This, moreover, is not a future joy.
It is one that frees from perturbation in this life, and gives relief from sorrow.

In the Ch[=a]ndogya (7.1.

3) a man in grief comes seeking this new knowledge of the universal Spirit; "For," says he, "I have heard it said that he who knows the Spirit passes beyond grief." So in the [=I]c[=a], though this is a late sectarian work, it is asked, "What sorrow can there be for him to whom Spirit alone has become all things ?' (7).

Again, "He that knows the joy of _brahma_, whence speech with mind turns away without apprehending it, fears not" (_T[=a]itt_.

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