Advaita Wisdom
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Upanishads

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

III.7.23. …"He is never seen, but is the Seer; He is never heard, but is the Hearer; He is never thought of, but is the Thinker; He is never known, but is the Knower. There is no other seer than He, there is no other hearer than He, there is no other thinker than He, there is no other knower than He. He is your Self, the Inner Controller, the Immortal. Everything else but Him is perishable."

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IV.3.6. "When the sun has set, Yajnavalkya and the moon has set and the fire has gone out and speech has stopped, what serves as light for a man?"

The Self, indeed, is his light, for with the Self as light he sits, goes out, works and returns."

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IV.4.19. Through the mind alone is Brahman to be realized. There is in It no diversity. He goes from death to death who sees in It, as it were, diversity.

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IV.4.20. Unknowable and constant, It should be realized in one form only. The Self is free from taint, beyond the akasha, birthless, infinite and unchanging.

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IV.4.25. That great, unborn Self is undecaying, immortal, undying, fearless; It is Brahman (infinite). Brahman is indeed fearless. He who knows It as such becomes the fearless Brahman.

Chandogya Upanishad

VI.13.3. "That which is this subtle essence, all this has got That as the Self. That is Truth. That is the Self. Thou art That, O Svetaketu."

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VII.1.3. "O venerable sir, such as I am, I merely know the subjects textually. But I am not a knower of the Self. It has been heard by me, from venerable people like you, that a knower of the Self goes beyond sorrow. Such as I am, I am full of sorrow. O venerable sir, please take me beyond sorrow."
To him he said: "All these, whatsoever that you have learnt are merely names."

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VII.23.1. "That which indeed is the Infinite, that is joy. There is no joy in the finite. The Infinite alone is joy."

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VII.24.1. "The Infinite is that where one does not see anything else, does not hear anything else, does not understand anything else. Hence the finite is that where one sees something else, hears something else and understands something else. That which indeed is the Infinite is immortal. On the other hand, that which is finite is mortal."

Mundaka Upanishad

III.2.8. "As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their names and forms, so a wise man, freed from name and form, attains the Purusha, who is greater than the Great."

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III.2.9. "He who knows the Supreme Brahman verily becomes Brahman. In his family, no one is born ignorant of Brahman. He overcomes grief; he overcomes evil; free from the fetters of the heart, he becomes immortal."

Katha Upanishad

I.2.7. Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor.