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I am the Soul of infinite knowledge. The knowledge of atma is complete and pure. This infinite knowledge never declines. The infinite space within atma is filled with infinite knowledge. The combinations of this infinite are also infinite. Even if infinite is deducted from this infinite, it still remains infinite. The possessor of such an infinite knowledge is the Buddha - enlightened atma.
Atma is 'chaitanyaghan'. Chaitanya is a unique quality of the atma. It is only with this quality that the atma gets differentiated from all the other inanimate things. Excepting the jiva, chaitanya is not present anywhere else. In every space of the atma, chaitanya abounds. Therefore, it is in a dense form. It is a mass of chaitanya.
Atma fills up the body. It occupies the entire body. Atma is expanding and contracting by nature. It spreads across the entire body that it occupies. Even if it is a body as large as that of an elephant, it expands and fills it up. Likewise, if it is the body of an ant, it contracts and remains in it. The infinite spaces of the atma's chaitanya, never break apart. They never separate from each other. For some reason if they are spread apart, their link remains.
You might have seen the tail of a lizard thrashing about. For some reason the tail of a lizard gets cut, the lizard goes a little distance and struggles. Here the tail also thrashes about. Even in the tail the atma is occupying spaces and those are linked with the spaces in the body of the lizard. As a result the tail stops thrashing and dies out only after the atmapradesh of the tail is drawn into the body. Thus, the atma pradesh that was occupying a severed part of the body, enters the main body and does not get separated. It cannot be cut into pieces, nor can it be destroyed.
If a person has a paralytic stroke, even then the atmapradesh of that part goes and gets absorbed in another part of the body. The atmapradesh, which occupied the paralysed part, does not get destroyed.
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