*VivekaChudamani *Vedantam -7 : Swami Chinmayananda

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07/01/2019

All these confusions arose from the mind’s *projections. When you assert that you are the mind, all the imperfections of the *mind become your imperfections.
Birth, *death, old age and so on, and *sorrows of endless varieties, come to you. This is called samsara. ‘I’ identified with the *ego gets blinded, and hence has no experience of the Self, which is of the form of the light of *Consciousness.

‘You are not this’, ‘You are that infinite Consciousness’, ‘Come to apprehend It yourself’, so the *Upanishads thunder forth.

To be continued ...


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