Advaita Wisdom
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Avadhuta Gita

I.56. O mind why do you weep? You are truly the Atman. Be one with It. Drink, O my dear, the supreme nectar of the boundless ocean of non-dual Brahman.

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I.58. Sell-knowledge does not depend upon reasoning or the practice of meditation or the instruction of a guru or anything in space and time. I am by nature that absolute Knowledge, the Reality, which is innate, eternal, and boundless as space.

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III.42. I have told you the quintessence of the Supreme Reality. There is neither "you" nor "I" nor superior nor teacher nor disciple. The Ultimate Reality is simple and spontaneous. I am Existence-Knowledge-Bliss and boundless as space.

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IV.2. Brahman is not only free from bondage and liberation, purity and impurity, union and separation, but truly It is ever free. And I am that Brahman – infinite as space.

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VI.22. Look, "you" and "I" have never existed. It is sheer nonsense to consider oneself as having a family or caste. Truly I am Brahman – the Supreme Reality. How can I make salutations to It?

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VIII.1. O Brahman, by going on a pilgrimage to seek you, I have denied your omnipresence; by meditating on you, I have given you form in my mind and thus denied your formless nature; by singing hymns, I have described you and thus denied your indescribable nature. Forgive me for these three offenses.

Vivekachudamani

11. Action is for the purification of the mind, not for the understanding of reality. The recognition of reality is through discrimination, and not by even tens of millions of actions.

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31. Among all means of liberation, devotion is supreme. To seek earnestly to know one's real nature – this is said to be devotion.

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232. If it has any reality, that is the end of any eternal reality for oneself, the scriptures are false, and the Lord himself a liar – three things which are quite unacceptable to great souls.

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364. Hearing of Brahman is good, but thinking is one hundred times better than hearing. Millions of times greater than this is meditation. And when one becomes free from doubt in that meditation, that is endlessly greater.

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537. The child, forgetting hunger and pain, plays with the toys. In like manner, the knower of Brahman, forgetting "me" and "mine", rejoices in the Atman forever.

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569. And again, what do you say? This bondage and liberation – they all belong to Maya. Virtually they do not exist in the Atman ; as in the case of the rope – free from change – there is no coming or going of the snake superimposed on the rope.