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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
on food, and dies without it; it is a mass of skin, flesh, blood, bones and lots of other filthy things, and can never be the eternally pure, self-existent Atman.
["Food—that went to build up the parent-body.] पूर्व जनेरधिमृतेरपि नायमस्ति
जातक्षणः क्षणगुणोऽनियतस्वभावः। नैको जडश्च घटवत्परिदृश्यमानः
स्वात्मा कथं भवति भावविकारवेत्ता ॥ १५५ ॥ 155. It does not exist prior to birth or posterior to death, but lasts only for a short (intervening) period; its virtues are transient, and it is changeful by nature; it is manifold,' inert, and is a sense-object, like a jar; how can it be one's own Self, the Witness of changes in all things ?
["Manifold-not a simple, and subject to constant transformations. ]
पाणिपादादिमान्देहो नात्मा व्यङ्गेऽपि जीवनात् । तत्तच्छक्तरेनाशाच न नियम्यो नियामकः ॥ १५६ ॥
156. The body, consisting of arms and legs, etc., cannot be the Atman, for one continues to live even when particular limbs are gone, and the different functions of the organism also remain intact. The body which is subject to another's rule cannot be the Self which is the Ruler of all.
["Functions--other than those directly interfered with.]
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