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
Atman and Moksa
them, but also it transcends all these worlds which it envelopes in itself and remains above (937) all these. It now assumes infinity and pervasiveness. The Ātman of the individual becomes now the essence (hy) of the whole universe; it becomes the Ātman of all the things, animate and inanimate.
The following passage from the Chāndogya Upanisad testifies to the above statement that the same Ātman is the external and the internal, the cosmic and the spiritual principle. It says – “He is myself within the heart, smaller than a grain of rice, smaller than a grain of barley, smaller than a mustard seed, smaller than a canary seed or the kernel of a canary seed. He also is myself within the heart, greater than the earth, greatar than the sky, greater than the heaven, greater than all these worlds." ' In another passage from the same Upanişad it is clearly stated that the first Being that created the fire, water and earth in order, entered them with this living Self and thus manifested itself in the manifold of the world. It is said there ---- “That Being (i.e., that which had produced fire, water and earth) thought, let me now enter those three beings (fire, water and earth) with this living Self (jīvātmā) and let me then reveal (develop) names and forms."2 Thus, it becomes clear that the Self is the innermost self of everything, and that it is present in each and every thing. This Self is present in all the objects of the world in
1 Ch. Up. 3.14.3. Tr. Max Müller, p. 48. 2 Ch. Up. 6.3.2. Tr. Max Müller, p. 95.
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