Monday, September 5, 2016

16 Statements on Atma

1. Bhagavan is manifest as all that is here, in fact all that is here, is a manifestation of bhagavan.

2. This includes the laws, the natural laws, the various orders and the various beings within the order.

3. An individual jiva , is Given a body mind complex, in keeping with the law or order of karma.

4. Based on the actions performed by a jiva, this jiva aquires a body and is reborn in next janma

5. The other elements are also ishvaras manifestation, lawfully manifesting and performing their duties.

6. The sun, the moon, the heavenly bodies, the earth, and all the creatures of the earth effortlessly follow the natural order, in harmony.

7. The jiva in the body of a  human being is given a free will, which means one can go against the order

8. Performing actions enjoined on the human, the svadharma, he acquires what is known as punya. This leads to conducive situations and higher births , as well as purifies the heart

8. Not performing actions enjoined to him, or else performing other actions, or else going against the order and performing actions that are adharmic, earns papa. This leads to non conducive situations and lower births, which will have to be nullified through appropriate prAyaschita karmas, available in the vedas.

9. The free will can and ultimately will have to be used to achieve non limited goals, since the jiva is in fact searching for the limitlessness.

10. This limitlessness cannot be claimed in terms of the upAdhi, or the body, however can be claimed as ones own nature, since the being is consciousness.

11. The being is consciousness, atma. This atma is the witness of the three states of waking , dreaming and sleeping.

12. This witness consciousness, is not limited by space or time, being the awareness that is aware of space and time.

13. In fact this awareness, or consciousness or atma, is that bhagavan, which is the lord of the universe.

14. This is since the same consciousness , with reference to the universe, is the enlivener, intelligence, as well as the one who provides reality and existence to the universe.

15. The universe is a dependent reality, depending on atma , for existence.

16. Knowing that I am the atma, that is non dual, and which is in fact the universal bhagavan, is indeed declared to be the ultimate freedom by the vedas revealed by bhagavan.

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