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Indeed in a certain sense two "I"s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents-their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his karma and to develop it further when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.

— Erwin Schrödinger

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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

My View of the World (1951)

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.

Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the "world of energy."

Nature and the Greeks (1954)

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