The Limitless Awareness in the Mind

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This is a limited awareness in this mind. It's an unlimited awareness which is shining in and through the mind. In that water thereis a reflected sun, tiny sparkling sun. This is called reflected consciousness of chidabhasa. And the whole process of wedanta has not yet started. Real process edanta i tracing back the chidbhasa to its source,. tracing back the reflected sun to its source - the blazing sun in the sky. Our true nature is that pure consciousness atman, which in the briranegopenisha mantrit said, iam masmiri purusha. That is my real nature. We always think brahman must be given

Sage Uddalaka asks his son Svetaketu: What is that knowledge by which we hear the unhearable, perceive what cannot be perceived and know what cannot be known? Inspired from this story from the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the great saying (mahavakya) - Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art). This discourse is also inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12) as taught in the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya: "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२