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Padmapada, a foremost disciple of Adi Shankaracharya, describes the conditioned existence of Jīva. An English translation given by Safaya (1976) is reproduced in following lines: "And that Jīva - of the nature of “not this” conditioned as ego in the waking and dream state; and conditioned in sleep by avidya which has within it trace of the impressions (that the inner sense has left behind) which is the opposition of Jňāna and which obstructs the light (of Atma) - keeps going forwards and backwards and as such is termed in Sruti, Smrti in common parlance  as  Samsara,  Jīva,  vijnanaghana,  vijnanatma,  prajna,  sariri, sarirah, atma, samprasadha, purusa, pratyagatma, karta, bhokta, and Ksetrajna."

The passage is derived from ____.

1
Panchapadika of Padmapada
2
Bhagavad Gita
3
Upanishads
4
Vedas

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