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Atman apd Moksa
inhere; or as the body is a part of an embodied being. Hence there is no contradiction between the individual and the highest Self — the former which is a Vis'esaņa of the latter — standing to each other in the relation of part and whole, and their being at the same time of essentially different nature." The jivas or souls are only attributes of the Self and hence, the changes taking place in the attributes remain true and confined to themselves and they do not in any way affect the Supreme Self just as changes in the sun-rays do not affect the sun itself. Rāmānuja further says that though the Brahman is equally present in all the sentient and insentient things, it does not participate in their changes, imperfections, and experiences of pain and pleasure; it remains untouched or uncontaminated by them. He maintains that just as ether, although connecting itself separately with jars, pots, and so on, is not itself touched by the imperfections; and just as the sun, although seen in sheets of water of unequal extent, is not touched by their increase and decrease; thus the highest Self, although abiding within variously - shaped beings, whether non-sentient like earth or sentient, remains untouched by their various imperfections -increase, decrease, and so onremains one although in abiding in all of them, and ever keeps the treasure of its blessed qualities
Sūtras.
Tr. Thibaut;
1 Rāmāmuja - Com. on Vedānta 2.3.45, p. 563
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