Do Not Identify Yourself With The Shadow

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"You never identify
yourself with the
shadow cast by your body,
or with its reflection,
or with the body you
see in a dream or in
your imagination.

Therefore you should
not identify yourself
with this living body, either."

(From the Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination.
Adi Shankaracarya) .

Dr. Antony Theodore

Friday, October 25, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: body,identification,reality,shadows

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Kumarmani Mahakul 26 October 2019

Soul resides in the body which is mortal. One day soul have to leave the mortal body. Which we say 'we, our, my...that is soul not the body. Here I cite..Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either." Beautiful poem.10

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