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process by drumming into our brains the right thoughts—thoughts of purity, thoughts of strength, thoughts of truth. As
the Ashtavakra Samhita, a classic Advaita text, declares: “I am spotless, tranquil, pure consciousness, and beyond nature. All this time I have been duped by illusion.”
Jnana yoga uses our considerable mental powers to end the duping process, to know that we are even now—and have always been—
free, perfect, infinite, and immortal. Realizing that, we will also recognize in others the same divinity, the same purity and
perfection. No longer confined to the painful limitations of “I” and “mine,” we will see the one Brahman everywhere and in everything.
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