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“You never identify yourself with the shadow 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.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
“Where renunciation and longing for liberation are weak, tranquillity and the other virtues are a mere appearance, like the mirage in the desert.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
“Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?”
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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.”
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“Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
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