The Advaitvadis, followers of Adi Shankaracharya’s philosophy, believe that our true nature (swaroop) or our soul is composed of knowledge (gyan) and it is already perfect, but due to ignorance from material existence, we think of ourselves as limited and conditioned. More @Wikipedia
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