With all beings She abides as their inmost atman....

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Dear All,

 

A beautiful description of the Primordial Mother abiding within all beings as

their inmost atman: -

 

" As a thousand sparks from a fire well blazing spring forth, each

one like the rest, so from the Imperishable all kinds of beings come

forth, my dear, and to Her return.

 

Divine and formless is the Person; She is inside and outside, She is

not begotten, is not breath or mind; Utterly pure, farther than the

farthest Imperishable.

 

From Her springs forth the breath of life, the power of thought and

all the senses, space, wind, light, and water, and earth, the great

supporter of all.

 

Fire is Her head, the sun and moon Her eyes, the compass points Her

ears. The revealed Vedas are Her word. The wind is Her breath, Her

heart is the all. From Her feet proceeded the earth. In truth, She

is the inner atman of all beings.

 

From Her comes fire with its fuel, the sun; From the moon comes

rain, thence plants on the earth. The male pours seed into the

female; Thus from the Person creatures are born.

 

From Her come hymns, songs, and sacrificial formulas, Initiations,

sacrifices, rites, and all offerings. From Her come the year, the

sacrificer, and the worlds in which the moon shines forth, and the

sun.

 

From Her take their origin the numerous Gods, the heavenly beings,

men, beasts, and birds, the in-breath and the out-breath, rice and

barley, ascetic fervor, faith, truth, purity, and law.

 

From Her take their origin the seven breaths, the seven flames,

their fuel, the seven oblations; From Her these seven worlds in

which the breaths are moving each time seven and hidden in secret.

 

From Her come the oceans, from Her the mountains, from Her come all

plants together with their juices — With all beings She abides as

their inmost atman.

 

The Person is all this — Work, ascetic fervor, Brahman, supreme

immortality. Who knows that which is hidden in the secret cave, he

cuts here and now, my dear, the knot of ignorance. "

 

Mundakopanisad II, 1, 1-10