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A saattvika (having lofty tendencies) person can obtain enlightenment even with a brief elucidation, but a person who lacks this quality remains trapped in moha (deluded thinking) even if he tries all his life to understand the ultimate Truth.
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When vishaya (sense objects) lose their appeal, that is Moksha. To take pleasure in sense objects is bondage. This is the sum of vignana. Know this, and do what you want.
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Tattvabodha (knowledge of the Tattva) makes a speaker stop speaking, makes an intelligent person inanimate, and makes a hard-working person indolent. Therefore, anyone who desires bhoga should give it up.
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Neither are you the body, nor does the body belong to you. You are not the karta, nor are you the bhokta. You are the sakshee (witness) that remains unaffected. Be happy; free of expectations.
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Raaga-dve`sha (attachment-aversion) are the dharma (intrinsic nature) of the mana (emotional mind), and the mana was never yours, anyway. You are free of doubts and distortions; you are the essence of Gnan. Live happily
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Be happy in the knowledge that you are in everything, and all things are in you. Be free of worldly attachments. (Where there is a feeling of an aadhaara – a support – and aadhe`ya – the supported, the Atma is like the rope that is seen; like the snake perceived in a coiled rope due to faulty understanding.)
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O, you are the essence of chit (consciousness) that is the substratum in which this vishva (world) is seen, like waves in the sea. There is no doubt about this, so be vijvara (free of all worries).
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My son! Have shraddhaa (faith), have shraddha. Make no mistake about this. Your shuddha swarup is beyond Prakriti (the laws of Nature); it is only pure Gnan. It is the tat-pada (the status of ‘That’, meaning the Brahman). You are the Atma (free of the impositions of Ishwara and the jeeva).
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This body is created in the guna – the tendencies – of sanskaara (subtle subconscious impressions), vasanas, indreeyas, vrittis, and the praana (life spirit); and it is this that comes and goes (in this world). The Atma neither comes nor goes (it is not born, and it does not die). So, why do you grieve for the body?
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Whether this de`ha (body) survives this kalpa (eon), or dies today, you are the chit-svaroopa (form of consciousness). How can you be harmed by what happens to the body?
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You are the infinite ocean and the world is like a small wave in it. It may rise up naturally, or not rise up at all. The movement of the water does not affect you in any way.
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My son, you are the chit-swarup. This world is not separate from you. That being the case, who, where, and why will any feeling arise, about anything being worth accepting or giving up?
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You are the chidaakaasha (the space that is consciousness). You are indestructible, tranquil, and unsullied. There is no janma (birth) in you, no karma, and no ahankaara (pride) in you.
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Whatever you see is an object that is a form of your own Self. Are ornaments like bangles, armlets and anklets separate from the gold they are made of?
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Let go of the decision, ‘I am this, I am that, I am not that’. Everything is the Atma. Know this for certain, and be free of resolves. Be sukhi.
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This world seems real because of your agnan about your own swarup. You alone are the paramaartha (highest truth). There is no sansaaree jeeva (Atma attached to a body that interacts in this world) and no asansaaree (the Ishwara who is not of the interactive world), that is separate from you.
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‘This world is only a bhraanti (mistaken understanding). Actually, nothing exists.’ Once a person reaches this conclusion, all his desires are destroyed; he is only a sfoorana (pulsation). He experiences liberation from worldly existence.
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Only one existed and only one will exist, in the ocean of this world. You have neither bondage nor Moksha. You are fulfilled. Live happily in this world.
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You are the chit-swarup. Don’t agitate your chitta (mind) with resolves and dilemmas. Rise above them, and remain tranquil. Be established and happy in your Atma, which is the swarup of anand.
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Don’t do dhyaana (meditation) anywhere, of anyone. Don’t focus on anything in your heart. You are the nitya (eternal), mukta (free) Atma. What will you achieve by thinking?