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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.

Adi Shankara

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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Attachment Awakening Dreams World
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
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Bondage Consciousness Discrimination Freedom Recognition
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
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
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God Heart Mindset
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Reality Truth
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
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Consciousness Existence Nature
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
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Eyes Friendship Illusion People Proud Wealth World Yourself Youth

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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