Vivekachoodaamani

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345. When the appearances cannot distract you anymore, then comes the

sure knowledge of the atman. And what is the cause? Complete

discrimination of the real and the unreal is the cause of that

settled knowledge – understanding the separateness of the seer and

seen. That breaks the bondage caused by maya from which, if one is

once free, bondage never comes again.

 

349. Like the union of the fire with the iron, by the union of the

reality with intellect, all these appearances comes into existence.

Their actions are unreal as we have seen in these three states – in

dream, in error and in imagination.

 

350. So all these changes of nature, from egoism, down to body, are

unreal because of their transient nature. But the seer, the self, is

always unchanging and therefore the real – the atman.

 

351. Eternal, one without a second, indivisible consciousness, the

witness of the intellect, separate from the manifested and

unmanifested, the subject of "I", the ever blissful – that is the

supreme.

 

353. When one sees his own self in samaadhi, which is the Self of

all, then all the knots of the heart are rent asunder once and for

all.