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distinctions are the distinctions in the condition of the instrument-of-vision and not of the Consciousness that illumines whatever stimuli that are received by the eyes. So too there are dumb men.
In both these cases the Life is not deaf or mute, but the instruments of hearing and speech are defective in the individual, and therefore, he becomes Conscious of those defects; Consciousness. Itself is not defective.
Electricity is not defective when the bulb is dim or bright, which all depends upon the energy of the filament in the bulb. The equipments have their own defects because of which when Life surges through them there are different expressions of the individuality. On the whole, to a student of deep reflection, Sankara indicates that in this vast world of manifold manifestations, the one Truth is the Infinite Self and it is ever perfect, pure and uncontaminated by the sins and merits, the beauty and ugliness, the joys and sorrows of the manifested world.
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