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The apparently triple nature of Reality is asserted to be one in Truth .

" That which is Joy is the same as Being which is Life " . ( Chh Up . IV . 10 . 5 )

Non-existence is the existence of the absence of existence .

Existence is the substratum of all positive and negative entities .

Existence is a value which is always judged by a conscious being .

Though existence in itself is not a value , it is so in its " perceived " objective phases .

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The absence of consciousness nullifies all value , including existence .

Perception and the other ways of knowing are possible because of the Intelligence underlying the apparatus of ordinary consciousness .

Intelligence or Consciousness is non objective , and objectivity is a self-limitation of it through a mode .

Hence Consciousness must be limitless or infinite .

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" The Infinite is Delight . " All beings are " delighted " , because they " know " that they " exist " .

The Being of Reality consists in Experience , uncontradicted by transcendence and untrammelled by modification .

In this One Whole all appearances get fused , and they vanish into It .

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This Reality-Experience is one and attributeless , true to itself which is Alone , above thought , and above every partial aspect of being , but including all , none of which can be complete without getting itself merged in the fully real , which is the Absolute .

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This Being can only be One , because experience is always a Whole , and because dissatisfaction is the effect of a faith in all independent pluralities and external relations which endlessly contradict themselves .

The Absolute is experienced as the same Illimitable Immensity , even if it is approached in millions of ways .

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The Absolute does not act , as action is impossible without ego-consciousness which will be a discrepancy in the perfection of the Absolute .

Thought and speech are equally illogical conceptions in an absolute condition .

There is no comparison , no illustration , no form of reasoning that can determine the nature of the Absolute . The Real is supra-rational . It is experienced and not understood .

It is the most intensely positive Fact , nothing is truer than the Absolute .

Everything other than That is a cipher .

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It is spaceless and timeless , indivisible and undecaying .

It is , as it were , something in which the whole existence seems to be lost , but it is That in which everything is found in the hardest form of reality .

If the Absolute can be called Life , everything else is but death .

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It is beyond even the highest of the intellect — God .

It is not God , It is the essence of God , the highest of intuition .

It is the General Impersonal beyond distinction .

It is the Great Immobility whereby all is moved .

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" All things exist for the sake of this Infinite Self . "

" If we do not regard them as such , they would vanish for us . "

We love all things because we love the Infinite which we ourselves are .

In every act of mental love , the Infinite is calling unto the Infinite , which is in and for itself .

We do not love anything for its own sake ; we love everything for the sake of the Self .

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This Self is not anything that we know .

It is not even consciousness as we understand it , for consciousness in the ordinary sense is a fleeting phenomenon due to the entry of Reality in the elements which produce forms .

All that exists is the divisionless Reality .

" Such , indeed , is Immortality ", said Yajnavalkya .

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That the Self is of the nature of absolute Bliss is proved from the fact of Its being the eternal Consciousness which is self-luminous in nature .

There can be no imperfection in Consciousness .

It is clear that It is free from all wants , because It is absolute and includes everything in Itself .

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Pain is the effect of not having what is wanted or having what is not wanted .

Both these cannot be the case with the Absolute Consciousness , as It is secondless .

Therefore , pain is impossible in the Absolute .

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As there can be neither heat , cold , hunger , thirst , grief , delusion , ignorance , passion , disease , decay nor death in the Absolute , no pain can be conceived of in It .

The absence of relations with objective existence , the characters of asangata and kevalata , show that the Absolute is completely free from pain and grief .

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The psychological , the physical and the heavenly troubles cannot find a place in the Absolute because of the want of differentiation , external or internal .

Pain is the condition of a particular experience of an object or a state by an individual under certain given circumstances .

The Absolute , however , is neither one among the conditions , nor one among many planes , nor any individual .

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The Absolute does not experience circumstances or environments .

Its Experience is non-relational .

There is no such thing as a non-relational pain , as pain is an objective experience and hence relational .

Contact is the source of pain . The Absolute can have no contacts , and therefore no pain .