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The Person the size of a thumb, the inner Self, is always seated in the heart of people. One should draw him out from one's own body with firmness, like a reed stalk from its sheath. Know him as the bright one, the immortal; know him as the bright one, the immortal.
अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषोऽन्तरात्मा सदा जनानां हृदये संनिविष्टः । तं स्वाच्छरीरात्प्रवृहेन्मुञ्जादिवेषीकां धैर्येण । तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतं तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतमिति ॥ १७॥
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Katha Upanishad 2.3.17Sanskrit original; contemporary rendering by Wisdom Booth

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Tradition
Hindu
Source text
Katha Upanishad
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Katha Upanishad
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KU.2.3.17
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LiberationSelf-KnowledgeImmortality

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Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
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