Book Title: Atma Shatakam Or Nirvan Shatakam
Author(s): Shankaracharya
Publisher: B L Institute

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________________ 3. 341 Boy if as the Vedantists believes, Atma is accepted as existing at all times then one cannot deduce in such a belief either virtue (yux ) or sin (L) or liberation (A) or bondage (or). Similarly, in the religion of the Buddhists which believes that the Atma is constantly destroying itself, there also one cannot deduce either virtue (y) or sin () or Liberat1on () or bondage (over). This needs to be clarified: a) That which is unchanging remains always with the same properties. Thus if the Atm is full of virtue (5) it shall remain so and man will constantly experience worldly joys. The reverse would be true if the Atma is full of sin (u). That the Atma is sometimes experiencing the fruits of virtue and at other times those of sin - which is what one seeps so clearly- then how can be said to be constant at all times? Similarly the unchanging Atma would either always be liberated or always be in bondage. It cannot first be in bondage and then become liberated yet this is obviously what Day we see thud how can one that in an Atma existing at all times constantly, there is either virtue (UT), sin(), Moksha (er) or Bondage (er)? it do > b) In the Religion (2) which believes the Atma to अभित्य be constantly dying and being reborn (w at one moment, for similar reasons as above, how can there be both virtue (you) and in (u), and similarly how can there be both liberation (er) and bondage (eier 19 ..5

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