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precisely because of this endowment, of this unique factor called the psychological dimension of your being, where you can think, feel, reason, enquire, analyze and investigate. This is your uniqueness and this is what makes you the crowning glory, this is what makes you superior to all other living creatures. But this is also an instrument given to you to exercise this unique superior status as a human being; it is not your reality, it is not your essential, true being.
Therefore, the great ones who saw deep, beyond the ordinary appearance, beyond the name and form, and beyond all these values, recognize in you the inner spark of divinity that you are. They wanted to awaken you to this, and hence all the scriptures have grown out of their transcendental experience, where they saw each human being as a center of the divinity, not in any way different from the source of Brahman.
Therefore, the great world teacher, the original Shankaracharya, who lived more than 1200 years ago, declared, "I shall tell you within half a verse that which has been declared in more than hundreds and thousands of scriptures. Here is the truth, in brief Brahma satyam jagat mithya. That eternal, unchanging reality alone is the great reality, and the entire, created, phenomenal universe is only a temporary appearance in time. It is not eternal and it keeps ever changing. It is not the unchanging, eternal, beginingless and endless reality; it is only a temporary ever changing appearance in time and space. Therefore, it is only a temporary reality, vyavahaarik satya.
It is not the true reality. Therefore, true reality is the transcendental reality and the second part of the truth is jeeva brahmaivo naaparah. This individual soul is no other than the great, cosmic, eternal and infinite spirit divine, the eternal infinite principle called Brahman, that is transcendental and absolute. This is the great truth. This is the center of all yoga. To realize this, there are all these various paths and many scientific, practical methods to ultimately bring you to this state of superconscious realization of your eternal true nature. They are all, therefore, part and parcel of the cultural heritage that we have inherited.
The ancients, who realized this, put this truth in a very brief, laconic manner: What are you? You are that which transcends and is quite different to the three bodies: the gross body, the subtle body and the causal body. You are that prin
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