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Modern Wisdom With Ancient Roots - Dr. Srikumar Rao

The Mindvalley Podcast

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I'm Not the Body, Am I the Body?

Ramana Maharshi was born in a middle-class prammin family in South India. At the age of 17 he had an extraordinarily powerful awakening experience. He dreamt that he was dead and said, I'm dead. What's going to happen? And it passed through very, very fast in a matter of seconds. In that brief period of time, he realized that he was pure consciousness. But having realized it himself, he said, I am really no different from you. You are pure awareness. I am pure awareness. So in essence, we are the same. The only difference is I am conscious of it all the time. And you are not, you identify with

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