tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Upadişads
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other external thing of the universe. This Ātman dwells in the inner citadel of man as well extends all over the universe outside him. Yājñavalkya describes the Self the indwelling immortal Self thus. He says -"He dwells in the earth, in the waters, in the fire, in the atmosphere, in the wind, in the sky, in the sun, in the quarters of heaven, in the moon and stars, in space, in the darkness, in the light, in all things, in the breath, in speech, in the eye, in the ear, in the mind, in the skin, in the understanding, but they do not know him.." The Atman gradually came to be identified with the Brahman the ultimate eternal, all-pervasive and infinite Reality. It ---the soul of man, the owning principle in the individual - grew in magnitudes to such an extent that in the Bșh. Upanişad we find that it became co-terminous with the universe and still transcends it. The Self comes to be of varying nature from different points of view. The same Self appears in different forms to be sought by them in their own ways. The same all-pervading eternal Atman which is the indweller of everything meets persons in whichever form they seek it. It presents itself to persons in all forms when it is sought. It remains identified with the particular world, but only temporarily, and only to those whose knowledge is limited only to that world; but actually, in its real nature it is greater than all these worlds; it is not only immanent in them, not only does it pervade
1 Bșh. Up. 3.7 (whole). Tr. Hume R. E., p. 117. 2 Ibid. 1.4.16. Tr. Hume R. E., p. 85.
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