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Essentials of
The way to attain the Paramatma.
सर्वेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य स्तिमितेनान्तरात्मना । यत्क्षणं पश्यतो भाति तत् तत्त्वं परमात्मनः ।।३०।।
The way to attain and realize the Paramatma is very skilfully illustrated here.
Until the tendency of enjoying the passional pleasures through the sensuality is alive and strongly enforcing the man cannot realise and sink into the Paramatma. To discern with an internal eye the fulfledged form of Paramatma, first it is essential to check up and debar the sensual natural inclinations; and this tendency is amputaied when there is a cognizance from within that the sensual pleasures are momentary and deceiving, and the real pleasure and happiness lie in the soul-oriented tendency alone.
When this Jiva, by keeping all his sensual tendancies behind a bar by a firm restraint he alone then can see something extraordinary, and it is this something is Paramatma. Acharya says that our Parmatmattva is not somewhere outside
