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Chapter 15
A Vital Fact
(1) God in the form of 'Is', Who pervades everywhere, as the illuminator and base of 'I', 'you', 'this' and 'that'. These four ever undergo changes, while He (Is) never undergoes, any change. Moreover, it is because of his egoistic notion, that a man feels, that he is different from others i.e., he has to use 'am, because he says 'I', otherwise there is only 'Is.
Till, 'I'ness persists, there is individuality or finiteness. On its effacement only 'Is' i.e., the Absolute, remains.
Atmani avasthitam:- means that there is, 'Is' in 'Am' and 'Am' in 'Is. In other words, there is macro in micro and micro in macro. An individual and the society cannot be separated from each other, in the same way, as the waves and the sea, cannot be separated from each other. But, as in the element water, neither the sea nor the waves are there, so is God free, from an individual or society. When a striver, realizes this fact, he realizes, that He is established, in the self.
A man cannot realize, that He is established in the self, because of his attachment to the world, to derive pleasure out of it and because of his disinclination for Him. So long as it is not realized that the self is God, we feel God as separate and away from us and we have to make efforts to achieve God and there separation is a must when he renounces attachment to the body, he realizes (beholds), that He is established, in the self and does not suffer pain of separation, from Him.[1]
He who beholds God, in the self, does not support the opinion, that God is different from the self. It is the sense of ness, which separates the self from God. In fact, the self has no evil, such as Tess or dependence or shortage or ignorance etc. But, by an error a man (the self), assumes that they are in him. In order to remove these evils, he should behold Him, in the self. When he beholds Him, in the self, he becomes free from all evils, because in Him, there is no evil.
As the world is kaleidoscopic, so is 'I', because it is a fragment of the world, as "I am a boy", "I am young", "I am old", "I am sick", "I am healthy" and so on.[2] Both the world and 'I', are perishable, while the self and God are imperishable. As the world has no existence, so does 'I' also, have no existence.
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