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Jnana Yoga - Class #12: "One Existence Appearing as Many" by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda: The Complete Yoga Classes 1895-96 NYC

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I Am Not the Body, I Am the Self

The gianin seeks to tear himself away from this bondage of matter by the force of intellectual conviction. The moment you get rid of the idea that you are the body, you do not see the world at all. None exists for him as soon as he is free. He does not see good or evil. When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. How can he see imperfection if he has not got it in himself? So the gianin does not care for perfection or imperfection. It vanishes forever. This is the negative way, the nati neti. Not this, not

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