If I say, ?I am a king?, I cannot become a king. So also, if I repeat ?Aham Brahma Asmi?, I cannot become Brahman.

Besides saying “I am a king”, you will have to prepare yourself. You will have to gather
a large number of men. You will have to learn many things. You will have to fight. Even so,
you will have to prepare and purify the mind. You will have to acquire the four means of
salvation¾Viveka (discrimination between the real and the unreal), Vairagya (dispassion), Shad
Sampat (sixfold virtues) and Mumukshutva (eagerness for liberation). Then you will have to do
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