Atma Sakti

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As the Self shines fully of its own accord, why is it not generally

recognised like the other objects of the world by all persons?

 

Maharshi :

 

Wherever particular objects are known, it is the Self which has known

itself in the form of those objects. For what is known as knowledge

or awareness is only the potency of the Self (atma sakti). The Self

is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self. If

there are such objects, they are all insentient and therefore cannot

either know themselves or mutually know one another. It is because

the Self does not know its true nature in this manner that it seems

to be immersed and struggling in the ocean of birth (and death) in

the form of the individual soul.

 

 

 

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