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The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self.

Adi Shankara

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
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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Attachment Awakening Dreams World
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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Breathe Grammar Yourself
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
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Consciousness Existence Nature
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
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
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
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
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
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
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Experience Eyes Reality Scholar
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
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
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
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
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

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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