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Cannot be displaced …243 With these acts Greed will lapse And a blissful calm Will come to pass …244 Without a taint And also deep Realisation will Slowly creep And the mind by itself Will be calm and neat …245 Then there is nothing to get Nothing to remember or forget And all will end And will regress21 …246 The mind and its extensions Are emotions and sensations Only a single sensation Will then remain …247 Thoughts will remain still and Reconciliation22 will distil …248 Some important points need to be emphasized before this chapter is concluded: a) The mention of old scriptures (Vedas), an advice to put the Vedas in the proper perspective, their obvious tendency to lay stress on afterlife (heaven and hell) and this (then) new idea called the ‘Upanishads’, together appear like the old and the new testament (to use Christian terminology). But this thought process, at least here in the second chapter, is pure psychology and scientific philosophy. It does not take recourse to a personal god, uses intelligence to describe a possible ‘core constituent’ of the universe and then explains human nature on this background and exhorts man towards action. b) In at least two original verses from the Geeta and the