Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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External soul, internal soul and supreme soul, this tripartite division is a very important prelude to psychology; modern psychology has also sliced the soul under the name of mind into three pieces. This statement proves more accuracy if we look upon the Aristotaljan views.
Until and unless we abstain and get rid of the Bahiratma, the external part of the soul, and pushing and compelling ourselves to ascend to the premises of internal soul, the Antaratma we cannot enjoy and realize the state of Paramatma. This is an ascending hierarchy from Bahiratma to Paramatma or base to apex.
To push off Bahiratma and to reach the Paramatma the Antaratma is a means or a cleft, so to say, between these extremes. When one has to evolve to supreme stage of Paramatma one must necessarily abandone the lowest soul, the Bahiratma, using the Antaratma as a means or as a high power convex lense focusing on the ultra-luminosity or the omniscience of the Paramatma. The Bahiratma is the sole cause of