Santi Sloka

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Hari-Om

 

'That is whole and this is whole. The perfect has come out of the

perfect. Yet the perfect remains, as before, perfect'.

 

The Santi Sloka of the Upanishad tersely sets out the relation of the

Individual Soul to the Supreme Spirit. The Self that functions within

us is of divine orign. It is of the same substnce as the Supreme

Spirit. The part that makes up the individual comes out of the whole,

and the stuff of which it is made is of such a transcendental nature

that the whole remains whole, in spite of something being taken out of

the whole. Again, though what is taken out is but a part, it is as

whole

as the original. The axioms of mathematics relating to the whole and

the part do not apply to the ABSOLUTE and its manifestations.

 

 

Jai Sree Krishna!