Swami Sivananda Vani

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Metaphysical Significance of Man—III

 

All the greatest thinkers of the world unite in asking us to know this

Self. While our bodily organisation undergoes change every moment,

while our thoughts gather like clouds in the sky and disperse again,

the real Self is never lost. It is all-pervading though distinct from

all. It is the source of the sense of identity through numerous

transformations. It remains itself though it sees all things. It is

the one constant thing which remains unchanged in the multiple

activities of the universe. Our limited personality is conscious only

by fits and starts. There are large gaps in it. Even if death

overtakes a man, the seer cannot die.