Vivekachoodaamani

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293. All that you see is unreal, changing every minute. I cannot be

that. I am an unchangeable something. I am the knower of all these

changes. There is this awareness in me – that I am the knower of

everything. These things, the ego sense and other perceptions, cannot

know anything.

 

294. The real self is the witness of "I", even in deep sleep in the

absence of all knowledge; therefore it is eternal. The scripture says

it is never born and is ever existent. That is your real self which

is different from the manifested or unmanifested.

 

296. Therefore give up the sense of "I" in this heap of flesh and

bones etc and in that which thinks "I am the intellect – the ego".

And knowing that one, undivided consciousness that is beyond time and

space, as your own self, gain peace.

 

297. Again give up the sense of "I" in your family and lineage, in

your name and in your form. All these rest in this rotten corpse. And

the sense of "I" in the subtle body – the idea of doer and enjoyer –

that also give up and become one, universal whole – blissfulness

itself.

 

298. There are so many distractions for the individual which are the

cause of worldliness – but of them all, the first and the root is

egoism.