8.ALL ABOUT ATMA.(SELF)

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Fourth wave-8th (last mantram) of this wave:-

This mantram is all about Atma (Self):-

1. Atma - all-pervading, extends beyond limitations, light-giving principle in our intelligence.


2. Atma- is bodiless, it has no connection with  with the matter envelopments, it is no more a prisoner in the body; all its identifications ended for ever.


3. Atma- scatheless and without muscles, this expressions clearly points out that it has no physical body. Where there is no body, no diseases can come there. 


4. Atma- pure, this indicates that the Atma has no causal body since it is untouched by sin. The greatest sin in us is our own ignorance of our real nature, which in turn creates all the animal passions in us, goading us to more and more inhuman and animalistic action. The Atma is Immaculate ( unpierced by evils).


5. Atma- is wise and the Seer. None of the activities of perception, feeling or thinking  can experienced by us if we are not charged by the Life-principles( Chaithanyam) in us.


6. Atma- is Omni scient, the all knowing. Every little bit of knowledge that is gained in the world and every one of its transactions are but 'known'by the same Atma, hence the Atma in us as the one Consciousness is the eternal 'knower' in all of us.


7. Atma- is certainly transcendent.


8. Atma- is Self-existing---there  was a first cause, which in its never-ending flow of changes, has brought about  the entire world of plurality as it is seen today.( uncaused by any other cause than itself).


Thus Isa (Paramatma, (Lord)  )- The Atma( Jeevatma/ Self/ the seeker ) wholly becoming one with the Pure, Bodiless, Luminous, Incorporeal, Immaculate, Brahmam, the Eternal Reality.

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