ATMA BODHA 41

 

ATMA BODHA 41

“GAYTR-GYANA-GYEYA BHEDAH PARE NA-ATMANI VIDYATE

CHIDANANDA-EKA- ROOPATTWAD DEEPYATE SWAYAMEVA-HI”

THERE ARE NO DISTINCTIONS LIKE” KNOWER”, THE “ KNOWLEDGE”, AND THE “ OBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE” IN THE SUPREME SELF. BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE OF ENDLESS BLISS IT DOES NOT ADMIT OF SUCH DISTINCTIONS WITHIN ITSELF. IT ALONE SHINES BY ITSELF.

Our intellect is capable of seeing only objects other than itself.  All our knowledge is made up of the knowledge of things “ other than ourselves”. Our lived experience of knowing things is possible only by a contact of the experiencer with the object of experience Therefore  a world of objects as well as the subject who is the experience is necessary. A certain relationship between the experiencer and the experienced is absolutely needed. No experience is possible without these three fundamental factors---the subject, the object and the necessary relationship between the two. No experience is possible at our present condition of body- intellect existence.

The SELF is Non- dual, Homogenous and Eternal. It cannot suffer in Itself  any differences  like the subject or the object .  Every seeker, therefore begins to question how he would realize the Self and with what instruments he would experience It after transcending the body perceptions, mental feelings and intellectual thoughts.

The answer is that the Self is the very Consciousness by which all thoughts, feelings and perceptions are illumined and when all these are eliminated , to know Knowledge no other “ Knowledge” is necessary.  Self is Knowledge itself. It is Consciousness itself. When all the furniture is removed from the room in the day time what happens to the sun? It illumines on Itself whether there are objects or not and to see the sun no other torch is necessary.

“Verily, he who sees this, who thinks this, who understands this-----he loves the Self, he delights in the Self, he merges in the Self, he rejoices in the Self-----he becomes a Self –ruler, he has unlimited freedom in all the worlds. ( Chandogyopanishad XVIII—Up. VII.I, 23—26  8)

“ That Self, hidden in all beings, does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect.” ( Kathopanishad  22)