Thus Spake Sri Rama

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The Atman is all-blissful. Why should you think that the miserable

Samsara (world) exists in such Atman? It is because of your ignorance

that you feel that sorrow exists in the Atman. With the dawn of

knowledge, this notion vanishes.

 

It is by delusion that you feel the existence of something that really

does not exists just as you imagine a snake in a rope. This imagination

or false notion that something unreal is real, is what is called

Adhyasa (super-imposition). The Atman which is Satchidananda (existence-

knoweldge-bliss) is untouched by such delusion.

 

Do you know how the Atman appears as being affected by happiness and

misery? Just as apiece of iron which is heated in fire appears to be

fire itself, the Atman when reflected in Buddhi, makes us feel that it

is affected by joys and sorrows. In facat, the Atman is unaffected.

 

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