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That Soul is the Creator Brahman who exists in all things. When the Soul becomes endued with vulgar attributes, it comes to be called Kshetrajna. When freed from those attributes, it comes to be called Paramatman or Supreme Soul. Know that Soul. He is inspired with universal benevolence. He resides in the body like a drop of water in a lotus.
If our relation with the divine were all a thing of our own making, how should we rely on it as true, and how should it lend us support? Yes, we must know that within us we have that where space and time cease to rule and where the links of evolution are merged in unity. In that everlasting abode of the ataman, the soul, the revelation of the paramatman, the supreme soul, is already complete.
We cannot grow more and more into Brahma. He is the absolute one, and there can be no more or less in him. Indeed, the realisation of the paramatman, the supreme soul, within our antaratman, our inner individual soul, is in a state of absolute completion. We cannot think of it as non- existent and depending on our limited powers for its gradual construction.
The union is already accomplished. The paramatman, the supreme soul, has himself chosen this soul of ours as his bride and the marriage has been completed. The eshah, who cannot otherwise be described than as This, the nameless immediate presence, is ever here in our innermost being. And now goes on the endless lila, the play of love.
Śaṅkara's teaching is known as Advaita or absolute monism. Nothing exists except the one existence called Brahman or Paramâtman, the Highest Self. Brahman is not intelligent but is intelligence itself. This must not be misunderstood as a blasphemous assertion that man is equal to God.
Words are maya where they are merely sounds and finite, they are satyam where they are ideas and infinite. Our self is maya where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam where it recognises its essence in the universal and infinite, in the supreme self, in paramatman. This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was I am."
Not being able to carry the entire quantity, they had carried as much as they could, throwing away the remainder. Digambara, i.e., in naked state. Nityada always, left out on the ground of redundancy. Bhutanam etc. is explained by Nilakantha as no swasya, and the vocative vibho is taken as Paramatman. Agatagamam implies, as explained by the commentator, praptasastrarahasyam.
It may appropriately be remarked here that the ordinary Hindu gods, of the post-Vedic period, like the gods of Ancient Greece and Italy, were simply a class of superhuman beings, distinctly contra-distinguished from the Supreme Spirit, the Paramatman or Parabrahma. After death, a virtuous man was supposed to be transformed into one of these so-called gods.
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