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so too the false recognition of 'l', as an integrated personality - which is non-existent really - is experienced by us in the bundle of innumerable desires, expectation, ambitions, prejudices and preferences accumulated over a number of births.
Because of it, his outlook perspective towards life is radically changed. True acquaintance with one's real self-hood through firsthand experience and true assessment of the objective world as a dream/fantasy - Addition of these two new dimensions to his perspective bring about such revolutionary changes in his attitude/outlook towards life, that the spiritual adept after achieving self-realisation is considered to have been born anew.
In mathematics, all calculations - addition, subtraction, division, multiplication - would go wrong, if one starts with a wrong equation of two plus two as five; similarly, the conduct of whole life goes awry when based on the false notion of identity of soul with the body. When this fact is realised through one's self-experience, one's amazement finds expression in following words :
" Awakened, I find the world all gone What fantasy filled my sleep till morn.
- Narshinh Mehta or
" When dawn of experience broke the day, Night of illusion faded away.
- Chidanandji
An atomic scientist knows about the illusion of bodysoul mix-up, but it is only at intellectual level; he has no personal experience of it. A bibliophile may acquire this knowledge
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