Direct experience alone is the basis for all proofs...
That substratum is the experiencing intelligence which itself becomes the experiencer, the act of experiencing, and the experience. [Yoga-Vasistha 2.19-20]
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Everyone has two bodies, the one physical and the other mental.
The physical body is insentient and seeks its own destruction; the mind is finite but orderly. [YV 4.10]
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I have carefully investigated, I have observed everything from the tips of my toes to the top of my head, and I have not found anything of which I could say, ‘This I am.’
Who is ‘I’? I am the all-pervading consciousness which is itself not an object of knowledge ...
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... or knowing and is free from self-hood.
I am that which is indivisible, which has no name, which does not undergo change, which is beyond all concepts of
unity and diversity, which is beyond measure. [YV 5.52]
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The same infinite self conceives within itself the duality of oneself and the other. [YV 3.1]
Thought is mind, there is no distinction between the two. [YV 3.4]
The body can neither enjoy nor suffer. It is the mind alone that experiences. [YV 3.115]
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