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Jnana Yoga
The Lord, the Atman, projects this universe and is projected; maintains it and is maintained; dissolves it and is dissolved. Brahman only appears as the world, just as the rope appears as the snake.
There is nothing real beyond the Atman or Brahman. The threefold appearance in the Atman (Adhyatmika, Adhibhautika and Adhidaivika) is proved to be without foundation. There fore know the three fold division consisting of the three Gunas to be the effect of Maya. All the varied phenomena of nature are created by Maya and the three Gunas.
He who has attained knowledge (Jnana) and Self-realisation (Vijnana) that I have declared, neither praises nor censures anybody. He moves in the world like the sun (which shines alike on the water of the Ganga as well as on dirty gutter waters on the palace and the cottage alike) making no difference betweeen things.
Knowing by means of direct perception, inference, reasoning, scriptural teachings and one’s own Self-realisation that whichever has a beginning and an end is unreal, one should wander in the world free from attachment.”
Uddhava said “O Lord, now the Samsara or relative existence does not indeed belong to Atman, the self-luminous seer, or to the body (non-self), the seen. To whom then does it belong?
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