It's A Rope Not a Snake (Direct Seeing of Adhyaasa Bhashya by Adi Shankaracharya Not a Translation Not a Commentary) Volume -1

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Superimposition means seeing something as it is not or seeing something as something else. Superimposition creates illusions that one thing is what it is not. Superimposition is mistaking that a thing has an attribute that it doesn't have. Superimposition is an error.

Illusions can be used to explain Superimposition: A rope appears to be a snake. [Perceptual Illusion) Hot air current moving over faraway sand dunes appears to be a lake. [Optical Illusion] The rising moon at the horizon appears to be larger than the overhead moon. [Perceptual Illusion] The color of Light is White Yet the sky appears blue-colored. [Optical Illusion]

These examples are inadequate but are the best pointers in the direction of the Truth: The Body-Mind-World superimposes Brahman and obscures Reality. Believing the Body-Mind-World to be the Truth is caused by the Ignorance of Brahman. Knowledge of Brahman naturally eradicates Ignorance. That is the purpose of this Book: It's a rope, not a snake!

This book goes hand in hand with the other book: Waking Dreaming Sleeping Being: Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana. May the knowledge from the books serve you well!

Wisdom is universal and eternal. It cannot be created, manufactured, produced or destroyed. It cannot be owned or possessed. It is never personal.

Every wave with the yearning to know itself can find the ocean. Once it discovers the ocean, it cannot claim ownership of the ocean. This wisdom belongs to Nobody. Nobody-ness is the author. Nothingness is the Source.

Ekta Bathija is merely the medium through which Nothingness channelized this Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana wisdom into words.

Do not get attached to the medium. Go directly to the Source.

May the Nothingness help reveal the Supreme Truth of what you truly are!