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Superimposition (Adhyāsa)
The rope mistaken for a snake — the single error at the root of all bondage.
Adhyāsa is 'superimposition': mistakenly projecting one thing onto another, as when a rope in the dusk is taken for a snake, or a shell for silver. Śaṅkara opens his great commentary by arguing that all our trouble begins with a primal confusion of this kind — superimposing the body and mind onto the pure self, and the self onto them. Liberation is simply the cancelling of this mistaken projection.
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