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Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

Adi Shankara

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
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God Heart Mindset
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
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
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Experience Eyes Reality Scholar
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
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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Description Finding Mindset Treasure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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