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THE HOLY TRINITY.
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An infinity of jivas (souls or living beings) are formed in the manner indicated. But, so far as the Reality is concerned, they are not separate, or separable, from one another, but being enlivened, as they are, by the power of Consciousness, by which they are pervaded through and through, they possess the power of seeing' in two directions, namely, inwards and outwards. If they look outwards, they must regard each other as separate existences; but if inwards, they cannot fail to realize the unity of all in the unity of the Absolute.
Accordingly, the Upanishad has it :“The self-born pierced the senses outwards, hence the jiva seeth the outward, not the Inner Self. One thinker, here and there, turneth his gaze inwards, desirous of immortality and beholdeth the Pratyag-atma, the abstract Self.”—(Ratlu, IV. 1).
According to the Bible, Adam, the son of God, was advised to look inwards to realize the real unity of the
name jivitma, the element of etat, i.e., the 'anu,'or'atom' is the jiva, and the element of aham is the atma. It is true that when the two are separated, the former is called anu, atom, and the latter jiva; but this is a matter of usage....Size is nothing. The original
hole in space,' or bubble in the æther of space, in our or anyuniverse, made by the breath of the Ishvara of the universe, is an aham ; definite numbers of these, definitely arranged, form the
atom' of each plane, and this again is an aham; these atoms,' in turn, form molecules, and the molecules tissue, and tissues bodies, and each successive aggregation is similar in principle though not in bulk, so that there is no essential difference in meaning, whether the word "atom' or the word 'body' is used in this connexion From the standpoint of the etat, bulk and interrelation and number are important differences; from the standpoint of the uham, it is all one, himself and this'" (The Prunava Vada, Vol. 11, pages 260 and 261).
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