all pervading 'atma'

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Hare Krishna devotees.

 

Subramanyam prabhu wrote........

namaskar,lord krishna is universal teacher.he gave

sacred Gita to Arjuna when Arjuna was in deep

frustration.atma is allpervading.it is in all and

outside.narayanopanishd -narayana

everyahere.kalascha..i have a doubt.how an

atma,allpervading ,omnipresent will leave the body?

 

 

I beg to recorrect the statement.....'atma is all pervading' as

paramatma is all pervading. Lord Krishna, the universal teacher who

spoke the Bhagavad Gita says this in the Gita itself in various slokas

that he is situated as paramatma in the hearts of all living entities.

(chapter 18 text 61) In Chapter 10 text 42 of the Bhagavad Gita Krsna

says to Arjuna....'....With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and

support this entire universe'. So it is the paramatma(Krsna who expands

Himself into each and every living entity's heart) that is all

pervading.

 

There is a difference between atma and paramatma. atma refers to

jivatma the soul which accepts different bodies according to its karma

and thus is entrapped in a cycle of birth death disease and old age. so

the atma is only conscious of the body within which it is encaged. thus

the non-pervading, atma leaves the body at death and accepts the next

body according to the credits accumulated in the previous birth.

Paramatma refers to the supreme Lord who expands himself into every

single atom of the material world. He sits beside the jivatma(soul) in

a body and witnesses the activities of the soul. Paramatma however is

conscious of all the bodies of the living entities and is thus

omnipresent. He continues to exist in all the atoms in this world even

after the body of a person is annihilated. So there is no question of

the omipresent paramatma leaving any body.

 

It is further quoted from the Katha Upanisad'anor aniyan mahato

mahiyan...'. " Both the supersoul(paramatma) and the soul(jivatma) are

situated in the same tree of the body within the same heart of the

living being, and only one who has become free from all the material

desires as well as lamntations can, by the grace of the Supreme

understand the glories of the soul."

 

 

I have tried to explain somthing with my limited knowledge. I hope this

clarifes your doubt subramanyam prabhu. there are other senior devotees

here in this forum who can throw more light on this subject perhaps.

 

servant of the servant,

radha rati devi dasi.