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Seeking The Self
Anecdotes
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By Super Admin
There was once a disciple of the great Shankaracharya, the exponent of the Advaita Vedanta or the non-dualistic school, who served his master without receiving any formal teachings from Him. Once Sri Shankara on hearing footsteps behind enquired who it was. The disciple answered "It is I". The master said, "If the 'I' is so dear to you, either stretch it to infinity or drop it all together!"
The greatest teaching was imparted in just a simple, day to day happening. To stretch the 'I' to infinity or to drop it would mean the same truth of dissolving one's identity in the vast existence of nothingness.
To
seek
one's
true
self
is
the
real
purpose
of
one's
existence.
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Story first published: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11:35 [IST]
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