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Panchadashi Lesson - A0730: You Are That

Panchadashi
Module - A
Unit - A07
Lesson - A0730: Summary "You Are That"
By Raja Subramaniyan

Summary:

If we read some medical literature on how we digest food and extract energy from it, we may find it complicated, yet in actuality we do digest food without any conscious effort.

Similarly, reading the tools for discarding irrelevant parts and using the relevant part alone for understanding the statement "You are that" may sound difficult. Nevertheless, we are accustomed to doing this as shown in the following example.

Example: On the 25th anniversary of your graduation, you attend a function where you meet many persons. You see an old, fat, bald, well-dressed but gloomy person sitting just opposite to you. One of your friends comes and introduces him to you as your close friend in college whom you had met 25 years back. Immediately you get a picture of a young, thin, shabbily dressed jovial person with lots of hair in your mind. All the attributes of both the person are different. But you discount all of them; you realize the person whom you see in front of you is the same person whom you knew well 25 years ago and have an 'Aha' experience.

Similarly, you are conditioned by wrong information about yourself and the Scriptures tell you who you really are. There are many differences between the two of you (There is really no two persons!). However, when you discount all the apparent differences (incidental additions) and see the identity (the intrinsic part); you will have an 'Aha' experience. This is called liberation or enlightenment.

Just as a movie, the body has an entertainment value.

Consciousness without a body cannot have entertainment. Therefore, after realization one can start enjoying the presence of the body, as long as it is available. The meaning of the word liberation or enlightenment is to know the correct meaning of the word 'I'. The whole life will be a play after that.

Mortality belongs to the body. You are immortal.

Limitation belongs to the mind. You are infinite.

YOU ARE THAT.

Statement 86: 'Aha' experience is enlightenment.

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