"He who has attained the knowledge of Brahman is a Jivanmukta, liberated while living in the body. He rightly understands that the atman and the body are two separate things. After realising God one does not identify the atman with the body. These two are separate, like the kernel and shell of the coconut when its milk dries up. The atman moves,* as it were,within the body. When the milk of worldly-mindedness has dried up, one gets Self-Knowledge. Then one feels that atman and body are two separate things."
*Atman is like the shrunken kernel that has taken the shape of a ball and rolls inside the shell.
-Sri Ramakrishna
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