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Further to message 10331 posted by Alan:

D. : How does mere life or death here [at Arunachala] confer mukti? It is difficult to understand.

M. : Darsanad Abhrasadasi jananat Kamalalaye, Kasyantu maranam muktih smaranad Arunachale.

'To see Chidambaram, to be born in Tiruvarur, to die in Benares, or merely to

think of Arunachala, is to be assured of Liberation.'

Jananat Kamalalaye means, 'by being born in Kamalalaya'. What is it? It is the Heart.

Similarly, Abhrasadasi­­­Seat of Consciousness. Again, Kasi is the Light of

Realisation. Remembering Arunachala completes the verse. It must also be

understood in the same sense.

(Talk; 473)

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"ekam sat vipraa bahudhaa vadanti

That which exists is One; sages call it by various names."