Both Bondage and Liberation Occur in the Mind: The Self is Ever-Free

 

अस्तीति प्रत्ययो यश्च यश्च नास्तीति वस्तुनि । 

बुद्धेरेव गुणावेतौ न तु नित्यस्य वस्तुनः ॥ ५७२ ॥ 

astīti pratyayo yaśca yaśca nāstīti vastuni | 
buddhereva guṇāvetau na tu nityasya vastunaḥ || 572 || 

572. The idea that bondage exists, and the idea that it does not, are, with reference to the Reality, both attributes of the Buddhi merely, and never belong to the Eternal Reality, Brahman.

-Adi Shankaracharya, Vivekachudamani (verse 572)

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