| The rain falling on  the mountain range slides down the sides into many valleys and flows as turbid  streams. The same rain falling on fresh water lakes or limpid rivers remains  pure and clear. The sages who are cognizant of their Atmic reality are  transformed into the purity, equanimity, and charity that it represents. They  are ever in the full awareness of the Atma, their inner core. In the purified  consciousness of these persons, there is the experience of identification.  Likes and dislikes, sense of “I” and “mine”, anxiety and calmness, elation when  praised and depression when blamed - these cannot contaminate or agitate a  person who has attained that state.   These opposites become balanced and are accepted with equanimity as  waves on the Atmic consciousness. This is the authentic Atmic attitude, the  Brahman inner-look, the unitary vision.              - Sutra Vahini,            Chap 7. | 
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