If you understood that what you call the material life does not really exist. It's phenomena, superimposition, on the Self, on pure awareness. If you were able to comprehend this you would immediately drop the body as it appears and become your true Self which is consciousness pure awareness. Yet when I say, "Drop the body," you would drop it. But to others you would appear to others the same as you were before. By dropping the body, in this instance I mean you would realize and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you never were a body to begin with. You are not the body nor the mind. Yet simultaneously you appear to be a body to others. They refer to a person like this as a Sage or a Jnani. One who has transcended the world, transcended the bodily form, yet still appears in a bodily form. But the average person does not know about these things. The average person only identifies with the bodily form and that is where the trouble begins. (Robert A)

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