‘I am not the body. I am Brahman which is manifest as the Self. In me who am the plenary Reality,* the world consisting of bodies, etc., is a mere appearance, like the blue of the sky’. He who has realized the truth thus is a jivanmukta. Yet, so long as his mind has not been resolved, there may arise some misery for him because of relation to objects on account of prarabdha (karma which has begun to fructify and whose result is the present body), and as the movement of mind has not ceased there will not be also the experience of bliss. The experience of Self is possible only for the mind that has become subtle and unmoving as a result of prolonged meditation. He who is thus endowed with a mind that has become subtle, and who has the experience of the Self is called a jivanmukta. It is the state of jivanmukti that is referred to as the attributeless Brahman and as the Turiya.
(From 'Self-enquiry': 40)
*If there is prolonged meditation that the worlds are an appearance in me, who am the plenary Reality, where can ignorance stand? — 'Kaivalya Navaneetha'
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