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 Mokşa
in the heart of men.' It also holds that the Self is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest and dwells in the cave (heart) of human beings.? It is further said that the word hțdayam is derived because this (ayam) dwells hțdi (in the heart) it is called hțdayam. In the Katha Upanişad also we get the mention of the Self as “The Person not larger than a thumb, the inner Self, is always settled in the heart of man. Thus, we find that the size, conceived of Ātman, went on increasing gradually from fire in stick and ghee in cream and oil in seed to a grain of rice or a mustard seed and thence to that of a thumb; and later to that of a span-filling the body--from the hair to the nails. The Self is also found to be identified with the Person in the sun - big and lustrous, and at the end the Self assumes the largest size infinitude; it is the person in the sun, in the moon, in the lightning, in the thunder, in the ether, in the mirror, in the echo, in the sound that follows a man, person in the shadow, the person that is embodied, the Self which is conscious (prajñā), the person in the right eye, the person that is in the left eye, etc.5 Thus, the size of Self went on widening, and at last it is found that
1 Ibid. 3. 13. 2 Ibid. 3. 20. 3 Katha 2.6.17. 4 Kausstaki Up. 4.20.
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5 Ibid. 4.1-15.
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