'The nature of truth is to be free from contradictions.

We approach nearer and nearer truth as we fi nd

less and less contradictions. The only thing which is

so free is non-duality'...'This may be achieved at fi rst, as the

Upanishads say, in lightning fl ashes, in fl eeting momentary

glimpses, but later this must be established into permanency.

You should stabilize them through self-recollectedness to be

done throughout the day, and through the constant reminder

that the world is not separate from yourself. It is not enough to

grasp the intellectual truth of non-duality'...'As the man of realisation

knows the world to be an idea, a mental construct, the

sense of unifi cation and love to all mankind is simultaneously

its materialization, for he knows no difference between idea

and matter. Hence too he wishes all beings to be happy, loves

even his enemy, wishes him no harm, for he knows the truth of

universal self-identifi cation. Thus to the extent a man realises

the truth, he can do good and no more'...'Any kind of difference

means contradiction. Nothing whatsoever other than the

Atman exists. If you think there is another entity, whether man

or God, there is no truth. This is the teaching since time immemorial

of those who have inquired into truth.'

- V. SUBRAHMANYA IYER