3160JC - The Atma Upanishad

Jul 26, '08 9:19 AM
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1. This is the teaching of (a great) sage: Purusha (highest Spirit) manifests itself in three ways: As outer, inner, and supreme Self. Skin, flesh, vertebral column, hair, fingers, Toes, nails, ankles, stomach, navel, hips, thighs, Cheeks, eyebrows, forehead, head, eyes, outer self. The body, subject to birth and death. 2. The inner self perceives the outside world. Made up of earth, water, fire, air and space (akasha). It is the victim of likes and dislikes, Pleasure and pain, and delusion and doubt. It knows all the subtleties of language, Enjoys dance, music, and all the fine arts; Delights in the senses, recalls the past, Reads the Scriptures, and is able to act. This is the mind, the inner person. 3. The supreme Self, adored in the Scriptures, Can be realized through the path of yoga. Subtler than the banyan seed, subtler Than the hundred-thousandth part of a hair, This Self cannot be grasped, cannot be seen. 4.The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut, nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self Is the eternal witness (shanta atman), ever pure, Indivisible, and uncompounded, Far beyond the senses and the ego. In him conflicts and expectations cease. He is omnipresent, beyond all thought, Without action in the external world. Detached from the outer and the inner, This supreme Self purifies the impure. O M shanti shanti shanti

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