Atma is not associated with body mind self complex. Due to error we lump atma with body mind , and creates for us a host of problems. The body is highly limited and bound by prakrti, while the self is eternal and limitless. By identifying with body mind, one is totally at the mercy of devatas, and of yagna and of action and results. Disidentifying with body mind, one is free, limitless, pure presence, and lends ones existence to all names and forms, thereby becoming the substratum of all this is here. I is then ishvara, the reality of all that is here, which has manifested as jagat, as ishvara the controller and as sakshi chaitanyam the witness consciousness.
