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Summary Bullet with Quote – "Liberation or Self-Knowledge is not an understanding" (Advaita Vedanta, Tom Das, April 21, 2025)
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True liberation (moksha) is not intellectual or conceptual—it is not merely knowing "I am That" in the mind.
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Sri Ramana Maharshi and classical Advaita texts affirm that liberation is the dissolution of the mind (manonāśa)—not mental analysis or reasoning.
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Practices like self-inquiry and deep inner absorption (dhyāna) lead the mind back to its source—the Self—until the mind itself ceases.
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The Upanishads, Gaudapada, and Shankara consistently teach that the mind is the root of illusion (māyā) and must be transcended.
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The world and duality exist only as long as the mind is active; when the mind is stilled, only nondual reality remains.
“Cease all talk of ‘I’ and search with inward diving mind whence the thought of ‘I’ springs up… To think, instead, ‘I am not this, but That I am,’ is helpful… but it is not the search itself.”
– Sri Ramana Maharshi, Ulladu Narpadu, Verse 29
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