' The Sage '...

The sage is one who has offered as a sacrifice his own individuality, and this annihilation of identity is tantamount to merging with the Totality in complete love.

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What you appear to be is the outer body perceiving the outer world, but what you are is that Consciousness in which the body and the world appear.





-A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
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