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The Mandukya Upanishad 3.1 : Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ======================================================================= 12/01/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-1. Post-1. ======================================================================== 1. This Atman, which is Brahman, is fourfold, and can be approached and attained by a fourfold process of self-transcendence. We now propose to take up these stages, one by one, by way of analysis and synthesis. The first stage of approach, naturally, is that which pertains to the degree of reality presented before our senses. All successful effort commences with immediate reality. We, generally, say, 'you must be realistic in your life and not too much idealistic', which means that our life should correspond to facts, as they are, and we should not merely idealise or live in a world of dream. The mind will not accept what it does not see or understand; and no teaching, whatever be the sub