The Self does not admit of specification, and therefore no teacher can teach it. However, realize the Self within you, for it abides in unblemished intellect.
It pervades all, beginning from the personal God to the
amoeba; but it is not cognizable by the mind or senses; being itself
unillumined by external agencies, it illumines all, everywhere and always. It
surpasses demonstration or discussion.
As long as you are contaminated with notions of me or mine
(e.g., my home, my body, my mind, my intellect), the Self will not be found,
for it lies beyond cognition and cannot be realized as ‘my Self’.
Retire into solitude, analyze and see what those things are
which are cognized as mine; discard them all and transcending them, look for the
Real Self.
Analyze everything in this way and discard it. What remains
over, transcending at all, beyond conception, appropriation, or relinquishment
– know That to be the Self. That knowledge is final emancipation.
Tripura Rahasya
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