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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
The Vedanta Sutras (1. i. 22) discuss the question and decide in favour of this meaning.]
माता मनोऽहंकृतिविक्रियाणां
देहेन्द्रियप्राणकृतक्रियाणाम् । भयोऽग्निवत्ताननुवर्तमानो
न चेष्टते नो विकरोति किञ्चन ॥ १३३ ॥ 133. The Knower of the modifications of mind and egoism, and of the activities of the body, the organs, and Prânas, apparently taking their forms, like the firel in a ball of iron; It neither acts nor is subject to change in the least.
['Like the fire &c.-Just as fire has no form of its own, but seems to take on the form of the iron ball which it turns red-hot, so the Atman, though without form, seems to appear as Buddhi and so forth.
Compare Katha II. ii. 9.]
न जायते नो म्रियते न वर्धते
नक्षीयते नो विकरोति नित्यः। विलीयमानेऽपि वपुष्यमुष्मि
न लीयते कुम्भ इवाम्बरं स्वयम् ॥ १३४॥ 134. It is neither born nor dies, It neither grows nor decays, nor does It undergo any change, being eternal. It does not cease to exist even when this body is destroyed, like the sky in a jar (after it is broken), for It is independent.
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