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Where one asleep desires no desire and sees no dream, that is deep sleep. The third quarter is Prajna, whose sphere is deep sleep, who has become one, a mass of consciousness, made of bliss, an enjoyer of bliss, whose face is thought.
यत्र सुप्तो न कञ्चन कामं कामयते न कञ्चन स्वप्नं पश्यति तत् सुषुप्तम् । सुषुप्तस्थान एकीभूतः प्रज्ञानघन एवानन्दमयो ह्यानन्दभुक् चेतोमुखः प्राज्ञस्तृतीयः पादः ॥ ५॥
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Mandukya Upanishad 5Sanskrit original; contemporary rendering by Wisdom Booth

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Mandukya Upanishad
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Mandukya Upanishad
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Two birds, companions bound together, cling to the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit; the other looks on without eating.
द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परिषस्वजाते । तयोरन्यः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वत्त्यनश्नन्नन्यो अभिचाकशीति ॥ १॥
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Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1
Just as 'I' is not the house, similarly, 'I' is not the body even. 'I' is in fact a spirit originating and flowing from God, a ramification of the divine entity. The value of human life or importance of the human body comes from the very realisation of this fact.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
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Stream of Thoughts 25
Whoever is ignorant of himself is yet more ignorant of other things; and inasmuch as a man is bound to know God, he must first know himself, in order that by rightly perceiving his own temporality he may recognize the eternity of God.
Ali Hujwiri (Data Ganj Bakhsh)
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Kashf al-Mahjub 183