ATMA BODHA 34

 

ATMA BODHA 34

NIRGUNO- NISHKRIYO- NITYO- NIRVIKSLPO- NIRANJANAH

NIRVIKARO  NIRAKARO  NITYA-  MUKTO-SMI  NIRMALAH

“I am without attributes and actions. ETERNAL (Nitya); without any desire and thought (Nirvikalpa),  without any dirt ( Niranjana),  without any change ( Nirvikara), without form, ( Nirakara) ever liberated ( (Nitya mukta) ever pure ( Nirmala)

ALL objects in the world have physical and chemical properties or gunas.  They constitute matter. The spirit indicated here  is entirely  different from matter. This is clearly stated by the phrase ‘ it is without properties.’ In other words, “ I the Self am without properties”.  Matter, with properties is finite. It has an end. The Spirit or Self has no properties. Spirit, the Self is therefore  Eternal. All our desires and thoughts are generated from the mind intellect equipment. Naturally, the Self, the Truth that Transcends these two has none of these characteristic features.

By these two preceding terms the gross body and the subtle body are negated in the Atman. In the same way, the causal body is negated by the next term. “It is dirtless “meaning bereft of all Vasanas Immaculate. Such a type of Truth having all the above four aspects must be one without any change and also without form. Naturally it must be ever liberated and ever pure.

 When all the superimposed limitations are negative, the one substratum on which hangs all this world of matter, the One Awareness, “ Asmi” illuminating all thoughts stands Itself gloriously alone. Thus” I rediscover  myself to be  That”. That is the changeless in the changing phenomena “  like the gold in the ornaments” the mud in the pots”,  the immutable Spirit. Hence, That my real Self is Formless and Free, Eternal and Pure and  without attributes and action.

“The Eternal among the transient,  the consciousness of conscious beings, the One who fulfills the desires of many------ the wise who perceive Him within themselves, to them belongs eternal peace, not to others.”  (Kathopanishad)

“The person of the size of a thumb the inner Self, abides always in the hearts of men. One should draw Him out from the body with firmness as one draws the pith from a reed. One should know Him as the Pure, the Immortal,  yea, one should know Him as the pure, the Immortal.” ( Kathopanishad)

“ He contains all works, all desires, all odours and all tastes-----He pervades the whole world, silent and unmoved. He  is my Self within my heart. And this is Brahman. And with Him shall I be united on departing from here. He who has this faith will have no more doubts. Thus said Sandilya, yea, Sandilya. (“Chandogyopanishad)

 “As a spider moves along its threads, and as from a fire tiny sparks fly in all directions, even so  from this Self  come forth all organs, all worlds, all deities and all beings.  Its mystic name is ‘the Truth of truth,’  The senses are the truth and the Self is the Truth of truth.” ( Brihadaranykopanishad)