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Disciple: Sir, I have come under your refuge, do open the path of Mukti for me -- that I may realise the Truth in this body.
Swamiji: What fear is there? Always discriminate -- your body, your house, these Jivas and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that this body is only an inert instrument. And the self - contained Purusha within is your real nature. The adjunct of mind is His first and subtle covering, then, there is this body which is His gross, outer covering. The indivisible changeless, self - effulgent Purusha is lying hidden under these delusive veils, therefore your real nature is unknown to you. The direction of the mind which always runs after the senses has to be turned within. The mind has to be killed. The body is but gross -- it dies and dissolves into the five elements. But the bundle of mental impressions, which is the mind, does not die soon. It remains for some time in seed - form and then sprouts and grows in the form of a tree -- it takes on another physical body and goes the round of birth and death, until Self - knowledge arises. Therefore I say, by meditation and concentration and by the power of philosophical discrimination plunge this mind in the Ocean of Existence - knowledge - bliss Absolute. When the mind dies, all limiting adjuncts vanish and you are established in Brahman.
(The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Conversations And Dialogues/XV)
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