Does seeing depend upon our own efforts or does it depend upon something outside? It depends upon ourselves; our efforts take off the dust, the mirror does not change. There is neither knower, knowing, nor known.
"He who knows that he does not know, knows It." He who has a theory knows nothing.
The idea that we are bound is only an illusion.
Religion is not of this world; it is "heart-cleansing", and its effect on this world is secondary. Freedom is inseparable from the nature of the Atman. This is ever pure, ever perfect, ever unchangeable. This Atman you can never know.
We can say nothing about the Atman but "not this, not this".
"Brahman is that which we can never drive out by any power of mind or imagination." (Shankara).
- Swami Vivekananda
"He who knows that he does not know, knows It." He who has a theory knows nothing.
The idea that we are bound is only an illusion.
Religion is not of this world; it is "heart-cleansing", and its effect on this world is secondary. Freedom is inseparable from the nature of the Atman. This is ever pure, ever perfect, ever unchangeable. This Atman you can never know.
We can say nothing about the Atman but "not this, not this".
"Brahman is that which we can never drive out by any power of mind or imagination." (Shankara).
- Swami Vivekananda
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