ignorance "I am the body"

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So this is going on perpetually. Not perpetually-at least for many, many millions of years, for many, many millions of years. But we are, because we are fool, especially in this Age of Kali, we do not understand it. Therefore it is said, sattva-samsuddhiḥ. You require to be cured of your this disease, ignorance. That is called... Just like when you become infected with some disease, you go to a physician, and he gives you some injection or some medicine so that you may be cured of the extra fever or extra pain due to your disease. Similarly, those who are advanced in knowledge, their sattva, existence, is cured. That we require. Or everyone requires to be cured of this disease of ignorance. The ignorance, disease of ignorance, means "I am this body. I am this body." I am not this body. (More...)

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