Discriminative intelligence stretches out the sacrifice and extends all actions. All the gods worship Brahman as the supreme through discriminative intelligence. If one knows discriminative intelligence as Brahman and is not careless about it, one leaves all sin behind in the body and attains every desire. This is the bodily self of the preceding sheath. Within and beyond this self made of discriminative intelligence lies yet another inner self, composed of bliss; by that, this one is filled.
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- Tradition
- Hindu
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- Taittiriya Upanishad
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- Taittiriya Upanishad
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- TU.2.5
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- LiberationBlissIntellect
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The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
So long as this soul does not know its real destination while dwelling in the body, it is not going to be liberated from the cycle of births and deaths. There is only one way to get rid of this wandering and that is to realise God while the human body is still there.
Sorrow has ravaged the kingdom of my heart like a ruthless army. Come back, glad Lord of Rome, and liberate the land! Before your power, the enemy will shatter and flee.