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1. The document summarizes the key teachings of Adi Shankaracharya on the nature of the self and its relationship to Shiva. It states that the self is not the body, senses, mind, ego, soul or intellect, but is in fact Shiva, who is eternal and completely unattached. 2. It provides an analogy that ignorance causes one to mistake a rope for a snake, but realization of the teaching reveals the true nature. Similarly, through a teacher's guidance one understands they are not the soul but Shiva. 3. Due to the veil of ignorance, the world is seen as real, but it is an illusion like a dream, and the true self is

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Panchratna PDF

1. The document summarizes the key teachings of Adi Shankaracharya on the nature of the self and its relationship to Shiva. It states that the self is not the body, senses, mind, ego, soul or intellect, but is in fact Shiva, who is eternal and completely unattached. 2. It provides an analogy that ignorance causes one to mistake a rope for a snake, but realization of the teaching reveals the true nature. Similarly, through a teacher's guidance one understands they are not the soul but Shiva. 3. Due to the veil of ignorance, the world is seen as real, but it is an illusion like a dream, and the true self is

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Advaita Pancharatna ~ Adi Shankaracharya English Meaning 

1. I am neither the body, nor the senses nor the mind, Neither am I pride, soul nor intellect, But I am
Shiva, who is eternal,
Who is completely unattached.
Who is far, far and far away From wife, son, lands and assets, And is the witness for everything.
2. Due to ignorance I think that a rope is a snake, For due to absence of Jnana.
I ascribe life in to lifeless thing.
And when the realized one points it out,
I wake up from this illusion,
And understand that it is a rope and not a snake. Similarly I am not the soul but Shiva, Which I only
understand by the teaching of the great teacher.
3. Due to the veil of ignorance,
I see this world in the eternal life,
Which has the form of truth and joy,
Similar to the dream which I see due to veil of sleep, For I am the pure complete, perennial and single
Shiva.
4. This world is in no way different from me, Similar to everything getting reflected in a mirror, All the
world is within me,
So I am that Shiva which is without two(duality).
5. Nor was I born nor grew nor die,
For birth, growth and death are for the body, The nature of taking up a work is,
The reflections of pride and not,
For my soul which is eternal,
And so I am the unattached Shiva.
I was not born, whence birth and death came to me, I am not the soul, whence came hunger and thirst to
me,
I am not the mind, whence came passion and sorrow to me, I am not the doer, whence came attachment
and detachment to me ?

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