Swami Sivananda Vani

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Metaphysical Significance of Man—IV

 

Nothing on the objective side can touch the subject. This ever-

persisting Self which is the Eternal Subject, is not capable of proof,

nor does it need any. It is self-proved. It is the basic substratum of

every act of knowledge, and vivifies every organ and faculty. This

universal Self becomes confused with the empirical self owing to

mental impurities. When we break through the ring of the smoke round

the Self, unwrap the sheaths which cover it, we achieve here and now,

in the physical body, the destiny of our being. The " I " , the " Atman "

which is infinitely simple, is a trinity of transcendent Reality,

Awareness and Freedom.