ATMA BODHA 26

                                                                     ATMA BODHA 26

                             “ATMANO VIKRIYA NA-ASTI BUDDHHEH-BODHO NA JATWITI

                               JIVA SARVAM –ALAM GNYATTWA GNYATA DRISTETI MUHYATI”

“ATMAN NEVER DOES ANYTHING. THE INTELLECT BY ITSELF, IS INCAPABLE OF EXPERIENCING  “I KNOW”. BUT the INDIVIDUALITY IS DELUDED INTO THINKING THAT HE IS HIMSELF THE SEER AND THE KNOWER.”

Human intellect ,by itself, is not empowered to  feel, think, will or wish  because it is a product of matter. In other words it is inert and insentient. A simple illustration is a bulb which has no light in it without a connection to electric current. “That which is not thought by the mind, but that by which, they say, the mind is made to think----know that as Brahman, and not what people worship here.” (KENOPANISHAD)

Atman is knowledge itself. It is totally unaffected by physical actions and mental thoughts. The Jiva or the individuality, a reflection of the Pure Consciousness in the mind, in its ignorance or Avidya  falsely identifies itself with the body-mind- intellect equipment. Thus it super imposes the characteristics of the true Self on the insentient matter-envelopments. In this manner the delusion that one is a seer, knower etc crops up in the ego. It is all because of a false notion in himself.

The bedrock of all these changing phenomena is the eternal changeless Atman. The names and forms appear to rise and fall like the waves on the ocean. It is an illusion experienced upon that substratum. The waves are in and of the ocean only. They have no existence, even for a second, apart from the waters of the ocean. Similarly the entire waves of creation  is in and of the Absolute Supreme viz the Atman.They have no separate existence of their own. ATMAN, the Supreme Being is totally unaffected by the changes caused in the sphere of time and space.

The illuminating Consciousness is the Supreme Reality which creates awareness of the different objects and activities of the inner mind. Waves after waves of sorrow, despair, depression, joy, success, anger, jealousy and passion rise and fall in the mind. But one who knows the “Knower” of these waves is completely unaffected by them. ‘ I AM THE SELF.’ I am the LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. NONE OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE MIND IS ME. The wise always gloat over this wisdom!