Vivekachoodaamani

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125. There is One – self existent, eternal, who is the base of all

belief that "I am" and who is the witness of the three states of

consciousness – jaagrat, svapna and sushupti – and who is separate

from the five sheaths.

 

135. Beyond all transformations of nature, pure intelligence is his

nature. Existence and non-existence come from him. Beyond all

specification such is the paramaatman who shines as witness in the

three states of jaagrat, svapna and sushupti.

 

136. "I am He". Know this by the purification of your heart. By the

controlled mind know thine own Self. Birth and death are the waves of

that shoreless ocean. Cross it safely, dwell in your real state as

Brahman.

 

137. This is the bondage of the individual – to take the non-self as

the self and from that bondage comes birth, death and myriads of

different sufferings due to ignorance – the ignorance by which one

takes this unreal body as real and nourishes it and tries to preserve

it by the objects of the senses as the silkworm preserves its cocoon.

 

147. Neither by weapons, nor by any scripture, nor by fire, nor by

water, nor by millions of different kinds of works, can this tree of

ignorance be hewn down. Only the great sword of discrimination can

cut down this maya and that sword should be whetted by the grace of

the Lord.