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What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

Adi Shankara

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
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Goal Human Knowledge Scripture Teaching Yourself
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
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Action Bond Ignorance Interest Remove
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
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Beyond Happiness Nature Sorrow Time
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
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Leadership Liberty Loud Scripture Speech Talk
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
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Awareness Future Identify Imagination Intellectual Mass Peace Present Thinking Yourself
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
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Ego Himself Human Knowledge Limitation
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
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Experience Eyes Reality Scholar
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
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Appearance Mother Reality Realize
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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Description Finding Mindset Treasure
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
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Desire Happiness Move Nature Sorrow
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
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Body Different Myself Need Purity Temple World
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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Breathe Grammar Yourself
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
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Achievement Attachment Attain Gold Illusion Loss Reality Yourself
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
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Consciousness Existence Nature
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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Attachment Awakening Dreams World
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self.
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Consciousness Dreams Existence State

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

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