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You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

Adi Shankara

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
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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Description Finding Mindset Treasure
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
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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Attachment Awakening Dreams World
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
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Experience Eyes Reality Scholar
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
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
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
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.
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Body Identify Live Reflection Shadow Yourself
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
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Consciousness Existence Nature
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
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
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
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Existence Imagination Manifestation Nature Ornament World
Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.
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Break Diversity Omnipresent Purity Space
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

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

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You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

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