From ~~~ Shankaracharya : Vivekachudamani.
This work by Shankaracharya, together with the
Drik Drisya Viveka, was translated into Tamil prose by Bhagavan
while he was still living in Virupaksha Cave. It is a very free
translation, even the order of the paragraphs being changed
to some extent. (The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi.)
The ‘I am the body’ idea is the seed of all sorrow. Therefore,
just as you do not identify yourself with your shadow body,
image body, dream body, or the body that you have in your
imagination, cease also to associate the Self in any way with
the body of skin, flesh, and bones. Make every effort to root
out this error and holding fast to the knowledge of reality as
the absolute Brahman, destroy the mind and obtain supreme
peace. Then you will have no more births. Even a learned
scholar who perfectly understands the meaning of Vedanta
has no hope of liberation if, owing to delusion, he cannot
give up the idea of the nonexistent body as the Self.
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