How to get rid of identification with thoughts? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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How to get rid of identification with thoughts? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Na ghato, no ghatakashono jivo jiva-vigrahahkevalam brahma samviddhivedya-vedaka-varjitam

Translation:

There is no pot; there is no pot’s interior space.Neither is there an individual soul nor the form of an individual soul.Know the absolute Brahman, devoid of knowable and knower.

~Avadhuta Gita (Chapter 1, Verse-32)

Question: Acharya Ji, this verse indicates that there is no individual, and there is only Absolute Brahma.

Daily when I wake up, as soon as I become conscious of my waking state, immediately the duality of ‘I’ and ‘the world’ comes into existence.

Acharya Prashant Ji: Abhilash (the questioner), was duality not there when you were asleep? It was there even then, and not outside of you – even in your waking state, or your sleeping state, or your dreaming state.

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