WISDOM IN PRACTICE
Wisdom is enhancing the ability to understand, comprehend, and realise Brahman , or the Supreme Self, and discriminate between Ultimate Reality and ephemerality. Wisdom in practice is not physical contortion but cognising and becoming conscious of the eternity, non-duality, imperishability and infinity of Absolute Existence. It is a constant endeavour of detachment, equanimity, forbearance, discrimination, discipline and dispassion for non-dual consciousness in any situation or of opposites. Wisdom is compressed into direct experiential statements pronounced in the Upanishads as Mahavākyas , or Great Sayings: " Aham Brahmasmi ", or "I am Brahman", Brihadāranyaka Upanishad (1.4.10), Śukla Yajur Veda; " Prajnanam Brahma ", or "Consciousness is Brahman ", Aitareya Upanishad (3.3), Rig Veda; " Ayam Ātmā Brahma ", or "This Self (Atman) is Brahman ", Mandukya Upanishad (1.2), Atharva Veda; and " Tat Tvam Asi ", or "T...