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"Sankaracharya was a knower of Brahman, and yet at the beginning he had the sense of difference too; his faith was not so strong. A chandala was coming along with a load of meat just as he had come up from bathing in the Ganges, and the chandala's body brushed against his. He burst out, 'You! You've touched me!' 'Master,' said the chandala, 'you have not touched me, and I have not touched you.' He who is the pure Self is not the body, not the five elements, not the twenty-four principles. Then Sankara's knowledge dawned.