Do you know yourself enough to know what you can do,

and what you cannot?

You do not know your own powers.

You never investigated.

Begin with yourself now.

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Before you agree or disagree,

why not investigate the very idea of a body?

Does the mind appear in the body or the body in the mind?

Surely there must be a mind to conceive the "I-am-the-body" idea.

A body without a mind cannot be "my body." "My body" is invariably absent when the mind is in abeyance. It is also absent

when the mind is deeply engaged in thoughts and feelings.

Once you realize that the body depends on

the mind, and the mind on consciousness, and

consciousness on awareness,

and not the other way round,

your question about waiting for Self

Realization till you die is answered.

It is not that you must be free from the "I-am-the-body" idea first, and

then realize the Self.

It is definitely the other way round

— you cling to the false,

because you do not know the true.

Earnestness, not perfection, is a

precondition to Self Realization.

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#SriNisargadattaMaharaj