ATMA BODHA 67
“HRUDAKASO- UDITO HI- ATMA BODHA-BHANUTAMO-APAHRIT
SARVANYAPI SARVADHARI BHATHI BHASAYATE- AKHILAM”
“ The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge that emerges in the sky of the heart, terminates the darkness of the ignorance. It pervades and sustains all and shines and makes ana makes everything to shine.”
The word Hridaya means Heart. It does not mean the biological heart here. Here it means that arena in the mind from where the humane thoughts gurgle up and flow. The term heart here is used in the same sense in which we call a man of love and goodness as a man of heart.
It is only when there is ethical purity and moral goodness that the bosom can realize spiritual unfoldment and the consequent divine experience.
As at the ushering of dawn the darkness disappears and the light of its own glory brings everything clearly to our cognition so too at the Dawn of Wisdom, all Knowledge bursts up to our awareness.
“ HE IS MY SELF WITHIN THE HEART, SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF RICEOR OF BARLYOR A MUSTARD SEEDOR AGRAIN OF MILLET OR EVEN THE GRAIN OF MILLET----HE IS MY SELF WITHIN THE HEART, GREATER THAN THE EARTH, GREATER THAN THE SKY, GREATER THAN HEAVEN, GREATER THAN ALL THESE WORLDS.” (CHANDOGYOPANISHAD)
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