Disciple: Well, is then all this relative experience not true?
Swamiji: As long as the idea of "I" remains, it is true. And the instant the realisation of "I" as the Atman comes, this world of relative existence becomes false.
What people speak of as sin is the result of weakness -- is but another form of the egoistic idea, "I am the body". When the mind gets steadfast in the truth, "I am the Self", then you go beyond merit and demerit, virtue and vice.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "When the 'I' dies, all trouble is at an end."
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
Swamiji: As long as the idea of "I" remains, it is true. And the instant the realisation of "I" as the Atman comes, this world of relative existence becomes false.
What people speak of as sin is the result of weakness -- is but another form of the egoistic idea, "I am the body". When the mind gets steadfast in the truth, "I am the Self", then you go beyond merit and demerit, virtue and vice.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "When the 'I' dies, all trouble is at an end."
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
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