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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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vidual soul is itself and directly the Supreme Brahman, and nothing else.
जाप्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिषु स्फुटतरं योऽसौ समुज्जम्भते प्रत्यप्रूपतया सदाहमहमित्यन्तः स्फुरनकधा। नानाकारविकारभागिन इमान् पश्यन्नहंधीमुखानित्यानन्दचिदात्मना स्फुरति तं विदि स्वमेतं हृदि ॥२१७॥
217. That which clearly manifests itself in the states of wakefulness, dream and profound sleep; which is inwardly perceived in the mind in various forms, as an unbroken series of egoistic impressions; which witnesses the egoism, the Buddhi, etc., which are of diverse forms and modifications; and which makes Itself felt as the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute; know thou this Atman, thy own Self, within thy heart.
[ According to the Sankhya philosophy, the whole universe, as it appears to us, is a mixture of Purusha and Prakriti-of something which impinges on or gives the suggestion to our minds, and of the mind which reacts, and covers it, as it were, with a coating of its own. In other words, everything we perceive is this unknown something plus the mind, or to put it briefly, X+mind. The Vedânta substitutes Brahman for Purusha and postulates a Nescience as the inscrutable power of Brahman, which covers the real nature of Brahman and makes It think as if It were subject to all sorts of change and limitation. Atman is only another name for Brahman. So, whenever we perceive a thing, from any mental impression, it must
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