SOME MORE THOUGHTS ON ATMA

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Hari Om

The scriptures talk about Atma as unattached (Nissangha). The self is that which enables the body to perceive and act but itself remains unaffected by the body and its perceptions and actions. It is a silent witness of the body and its functioning. LIkewise, it is adetached witness of the mind and its emotions, the intellect and its thoughts. Atma is called Asakta ie., unattached in 13th chapter of the Gita.

Hari Om

Atma is motionless (Achalah). An object can move from a place where it exists to a place where it does not exist. The all-pervading Reality exists everywhere, at all times. There is no place where it is not for it to move into and occupy. Hence no movement is possible for Atma. It is motionless. Atma is talked about as immoving in second chapter of Gita( Sthanuh Achalah). ACHALAH signifies that which is not capable of motion and vibration both.

 

Atma has been compared to Space in the scriptures. Both Atma and space are all-pervading. Space allows things to exist in it without itself being conditioned by them. So too, Atma is the medium in which perceptions ,emotions and thoughts take place but none of these contaminate or limit the Atma in any way. A subtle object can not be limited or conditioned by a grosser object. There is a saying,"Stone walls do not make a prison nor iron bars a cage". The gross walls of a prison can confine only our physical body but not our subtle emotions and thoughts. Atma in us is the subtlest of all. That being so, neither the world nor our matter vestures can limit or condition Atma. When we try to define space, we face difficulties. It implies vastness, immensity. We can not give space any kind of location. In fact, space is the very basis of the concept of location. Space is here as well as

there; it is inside as well as outside. Space or AKASA is taken as the nearest symbol of the Infinite and the Absolute Atma precisely because of its unlimited , ever pure and indestructable character.

 

(to be continued)G.Balasubramanian

 

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Dear Sir,

If atma is motionless how it is entering into another body?

D.M.M.RAO--- मंगल, 21/7/09 को, G Balasubramanian <gbsub ने लिखा:

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Hari Om

The scriptures talk about Atma as unattached (Nissangha). The self is that which enables the body to perceive and act but itself remains unaffected by the body and its perceptions and actions. It is a silent witness of the body and its functioning. LIkewise, it is adetached witness of the mind and its emotions, the intellect and its thoughts. Atma is called Asakta ie., unattached in 13th chapter of the Gita.

Hari Om

Atma is motionless (Achalah). An object can move from a place where it exists to a place where it does not exist. The all-pervading Reality exists everywhere, at all times. There is no place where it is not for it to move into and occupy. Hence no movement is possible for Atma. It is motionless. Atma is talked about as immoving in second chapter of Gita( Sthanuh Achalah). ACHALAH signifies that which is not capable of motion and vibration both.

 

Atma has been compared to Space in the scriptures. Both Atma and space are all-pervading. Space allows things to exist in it without itself being conditioned by them. So too, Atma is the medium in which perceptions ,emotions and thoughts take place but none of these contaminate or limit the Atma in any way. A subtle object can not be limited or conditioned by a grosser object. There is a saying,"Stone walls do not make a prison nor iron bars a cage". The gross walls of a prison can confine only our physical body but not our subtle emotions and thoughts. Atma in us is the subtlest of all. That being so, neither the world nor our matter vestures can limit or condition Atma. When we try to define space, we face difficulties. It implies vastness, immensity. We can not give space any kind of location. In fact, space is the very basis of the concept of location. Space is here as well as

there; it is inside as well as outside. Space or AKASA is taken as the nearest symbol of the Infinite and the Absolute Atma precisely because of its unlimited , ever pure and indestructable character.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian

 

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