Analects of Swami Sivananda

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(iii) The LIght of Lights

 

37. The indwelling Atman is the Light of lights. It illumines the

whole universe and dispels darkness of the mind.

38. Through ignorance the rope apepars as a snake. Through ignorance

you have become a Jiva. Bring a lamp. The illusion of rope vanishes.

Attain knowledge of the Atman. Jivahood disappears.

39. More radiant than sun, more subtle than the ether, is the

innermost self, the Atman. That Atman thou art, 'Tat Tvam Asi'.

40. In the body, the temple of God, in the Lotus of the heart,

Brahman or the Supreme Being is always manifesting Himself as Pure

consciousness of Intelligence. So the Lotus of the heart is called

Brahma-Puri or the city of Brahman.

41. There is one life which exists, one Spirit, one Truth, one

Reality. That is Para Brahman or the Absolute.

42. Vedantins call the Truth as Brahman; Plato as 'the Good', Spinoza

as 'Substance'; Spencer as the 'unknown and the unknowable'; Kant

as 'the transcendental thing-in-itself'; Schopenhauer as 'sufficient

reason'; Emerson as 'Oversoul'.

43. Para Brahman is transcendent, changeless, unlimited in time and

space. It is one and the same in all intellects.

44. Brahman cannot be known as an object by ordinary introspection.

You cannot know the knower of knowing.

45. You can become aware of your identity with Para Brahman through

intuitional experience in deep meditation.

46. The witness-consciousness is distinct from the mental experiences

and is not implicated either in their changes, their impurities or

their limitations.

47. Brahman or the Asbolute is One, whole, complete, perfect,

invisible, timeless, shapeless, ageless,w ithout face, form or figure.

48. Brahman or the Absolute is the immutable, the supreme, the self-

luminous.