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"The very ideas we think we know to be true are the same ones that keep us trapped and prevent realisation occurring."
---Tom Das, Liberation and Non-Duality
The Realised will not say that the world, which has no existence, is real.
Nothing such as a world exists.
The world found to be ever non-existent, even as an appearance.
The world only appears to exist due to ignorance [of the] mind
The world appears only in the mind, it is false, and it does not exist in the clear sight of Self
---from verses 23, 28, 87, 35
selected as recorded by Sri Murugana
on The World is Not Real, from Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, commentary Tom Das
36. O worldly-minded man who is unable to understand the wise reasoning and the teachings of Sages about the Supreme Knowledge, if properly scrutinised, this big universe of delusion is seen to be nothing but the illusive play of the mental tendencies within you.
like a dream, the world is merely a projection of the mind and is unreal
84. All that is perceived by the mind was already within the heart. Know that all perceptions are a reproduction of past tendencies now being projected outside [through the five senses].
55. The appearance of this world, like the illusory appearance of a dream, is merely mental
87. So is the world found to be ever non-existent, even as an appearance.
"The highest goal is gained by those who know That which the ego-mind false, treacherous can never know,
The sole true Being with no beginning and no end, no change, no cause, no parallel, no other."
source, with all 1,282 stanzas
Guru Vachaku Kovai, Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections, He minds your indifference." - Paramahansa Yogananda
“ This physical body has come into being by food, is sustained by food, and dies without food. This physical body that is a modification of food is as though a shield that covers the Atma, the true Self that is ever pure.
This pack of dermis, epidermis, flesh, blood, bone and excrement does not deserve to be the Self.”
—Shankara’s Vivekachudamani. Verse 156.
~ Translation by Swami Dayananda Saraswati
"Body, mind and soul are interrelated. You have a duty to the body - keeping it fit; a duty to the mind - developing its powers; and a duty to the soul - daily meditation on the source of your being." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." - Sri Yukteswar
“All beings have their existence in one Atma alone. That it is not understood is due to the mind+organs of perception-complex where the mind identifies with one body alone, and superimposes this faulty understanding on the ever illumined Atma/self. This is a state of delusion that only the knowledge of the true self can remove.”
~Vivekachudamani by Shankara
~Commentary by Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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