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 Saturday 24 May 2025

FALSE PERCEPTION

Swami Sivananda

The disease of delusion which causes perception of what is contrary to truth, pertains to the perverted mind, but not to the man who perceives things in their true light. Even so, ignorance, doubt, pleasure and pain, virtue and vice, Raga-Dwesha, false perception, non-perception of truth, as well as their causes, belong to the instrument, mind, but not to the silent witness, the Self. The wheel of Samsara or the world-process rotates on the hub of Avidya. It exists only for the ignorant man who perceives the world as it appears externally. Contd…


The mantra is not a manufactured sentence. It is not an intellectual concept. It is not something that someone imagined by way of a fancy. It is a vision of a seer. Thus, mantras are sacred. They are highly potentised forms of divine energy concentrated in a few letters, in a few words or phrases.

- Swami Krishnananda

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