Constitutes What Is Spoken Of As Heart-Tie No Man Who Has Not Been Initiated

 - Into Truth By a Guru and the Scriptures can distinguish the real conscious Self of pure Bliss -veiled as he is by ajnana - from the linga sarira 

- a product of the subtle elements sukshma bhutas and endued with the attributes of agency and the like He looks upon the two as forming one entity

- and when he wishes to describe his own nature in full he says 'I am the agent' By a realisation of the Reality thsi heart tie-up is broken; 

- the two constituents are distinguished from each other. Against this view one may perhaps urge that even he who knows of the Reality is found to speak of himself as

- the agent as he ever did before. In reply we say that though he speaks of himself in this fashion, it is not exactly in the same manner as he did before

- Accordingly in his commentary on the Sariraka-mimamsa the Blessed Bhashyakara says as follows. "He who has known the Self to be one  with Brahman

- Is not a samsarin (a man of the world) as before he was. He who on the other hand is a samsarin as he was before has not known the Self as one with Brahman

- In the Upadesa-Sahasri also he says "Whoever though knowing Atman cherishes thoughts of accepting and avoiding he is not be it known fit for moksha

- He is indeed discarded by Brahman. As to the knower of the Self speaking of himself "I am the agent" he can do so by intellectually distinguishing the Conscious self from the linga sarira; for In his view