Ultimate Goal of Advaita Vedanta: Liberation through Self-Knowledge
You are indeed the supreme Self but due to your association with ignorance you
find yourself under the bondage of the not-self, which is the sole cause of the
cycle of births and deaths. All the effects of ignorance, root and branch, are
burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between
these two—the Self and the not-Self. ~Vivekachudamani, verse 47.
There is no liberation for a peson of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read
in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up false identification
with the body, sense-organs, etc., which are unreal. ~Vivekachudamani, verse
162.
You are indeed the supreme Self but due to your association with ignorance you
find yourself under the bondage of the not-self, which is the sole cause of the
cycle of births and deaths. All the effects of ignorance, root and branch, are
burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between
these two—the Self and the not-Self. ~Vivekachudamani, verse 47.
There is no liberation for a peson of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read
in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up false identification
with the body, sense-organs, etc., which are unreal. ~Vivekachudamani, verse
162.
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