' Liberation '...

In spite of a certain degree of intellectual understanding, most seekers find it very difficult to accept the total abolition of their personal identities.

They continue to work hard at their disciplinary practices hoping for a personal liberation - a contradiction in terms because liberation presupposes the absolute absence of the individual entity.


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Every sensory and conceptual experience is an illusion. what you see, hear, touch, and taste is really the Unmanifest, the within of the without with which we are surrounded on all sides.


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A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
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