VML-7/26/00

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We know our body will perish; it had a beginning and it will have an

end. But the Self having no form, cannot be bound by the law of

beginning and end. It is existing from infinite time; just as time is

eternal, so is the Self of man eternal. Secondly, it must be

all-pervading. It is only form that is conditioned and limited by

space; that which is formless cannot be confined in space. So,

according to Advaita Vedanta, the Self, the Atman, in you, in me, in

every one, is omnipresent. You are as much in the sun now as in this

earth, as much in England as in America. But the Self acts through

the mind and the body, and where they are, its action is visible.