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Ask Swami 11/7/2021

Vedanta Talks

Does It Continue After Enlightenment?

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At enlightenment, what happens is not that the reflected face will disappear. Cease to think that i am this shining consciousness in the mind. But it does cease when the body mind ceases. So for example, it ceases every night when you fall asleep. In deep sleep, there is no active, reflected consciousness. Just like the sun reflected in the pot, in the poolof water in the pot. At night, the pot is there, the water is there, but there is no reflected sun. And from the perspective of the enlightened one, who is not supposed to be born or reborn again, does not take on an individual body mind again. That's the distinction that sets you free

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