ATMA BODHA 48

 

 

ATMA BODHA 48

“ATMA-EVA- EDAM JAGAT SARVAM ATMANO ANNYAT NA VIDYATE

MRIDOYAD-VAD-GHATADEENI SVATMANAM SARVA-MEEKSHATE.”

“THERE IS NOTHING THAT EXISTS OTHER THAN THE ATMAN. THE ENTIRE TANGIBLE UNIVERSE IS VERILYATMAN. SINCE POTS AND JARS ARE VERILY MADE OF CLAY AND CANNOT BE ANYTHING BUT CLAY, SO TOO, TO THE ENLIGHTENED SOUL ALL THAT IS PERCEIVED  IS THE SELF.”

It has been maintained earlier that the whole experience is nothing but the expression of one’s own Self. Beyond the Supreme there is nothing else. How can we accept this proposition that Atman alone is the essence in all the world of our experiences? “ Atma eva Jagat sarvam.”

Clay is our basic raw material for various kinds of potteries.  They come out of mud, exist in mud, and finally go back to the self same mud. Without this basic raw material, all the different shapes and forms could not have come out. The original mud alone gave the shape and substantiality to the different existent pot units .Just as there is no separate existence for the mud pans and pots apart from the mud--------similar to the waves of the ocean are the same as the waters on which they have risen up---so too the  Self alone is the Reality which has given shape and life to the world of names and forms. This is correctly understood by the man of wisdom, the enlightened Soul.

The common man, under the grip of maya or avidya is steeped in material pleasures out of transient objects. He is totally unfit to ponder over the Self embedded in his own body. He cannot easily recognize the presence of the subtle Atman everywhere.” The Infinite rising from the Infinite pervades and envelops the entire finite. The multiplicity is but a projection upon the one Eternal Infinite.”

“ He who is one and without any color, but who by means of His power produces many colors for a purpose which is hidden and in whom the universe is gathered both in the beginning  and at the end----may He endow us with good thoughts!

That indeed is fire,that is the man, that is the wind and that is the moon. That is the starry firmament. That is Brahman. That is the waters. And that is Prajapati.

Thou art woman, thou art man, thou art the youth and maiden too. Thou as the old man,dost totter along on thy staff. Thou art born with thy face turned everywhere.

 Thou art the daek blue bee, thou art the green parrot with red eyes. Thou art the cloud with lightning in its womb. Thou art the seasons and the seas. Thou art without beginning. Thou art Infinite and from Thee are all worlds born!”   (SWETASWATAROPANISHAD)