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The Ome, Shri Harim Paramanandam, Opaedishhtaram, Opaedeshwaram Ishwaram

Vyapakam Sarvalokana

Karanam Tamnamamyaam

Amyaam

So in Aporokshanubhuti, we have completed the first 21 verses and we are on the 22nd verse.

Let's just recollect what we were doing is we are trying to understand how the self is not the body.

To put it more directly, how am I not the body?

The first central gross fact about myself,

which I never even question, is that I am this.

And if somebody asks, what is this?

I will say, this is I.

Who are you?

I am this.

So the body is something that we identify ourselves with immediately, without any reflection.

Now, Adwaita Vedanata, non-dual Vedantha, asks us to reflect. It asks us to

challenge this fact. It says that this fact is absolutely wrong. You are not the body. We have the

feeling of being embodied, but we are not the body.

The body is something different and we, the self, I am something different from the body.

And a series of arguments have been given from 17th verse onwards.

Atma Vinishkalat, the self is partless. The body has parts. That which is

one and partless. How do you say identified with something that has parts? The body has

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