ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram - 4.

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD


Mantram-4.


Discussion -4. "Self ( Atma ) ..All-pervading ...'Deva-s could  not  overtake  it'...

....In  short,  the  Self  is  now  discussed  here  as  All-pervading,  and  it  is  explained  in  terms  of  two  of  the  ways  in  which  we  understand  a  thing  in  the v world  of  objects.

We  understand  motion,  we  understand  speed.

By  denying  the  former  and  asserting  the  latter,  the Rishi-s  are  explaining  to  us  that  Consciousness,  or  the  Self ( Atma ),  is  a  factor which  in  itself  is  "motionless  speed."

It  is  certainly  a  scientific  fact,  but  it  reads  as  a  contradiction  in  terms.

And  it  is  the  only  method  by  which  our  fact-hunting  intellect  and  observation-thirsty  understanding  can  be  shocked  to  realise  the  magnitude  and  implications  of  the  simple  term  "All-Pervading."

Since  the  Consciousness  is  All-Pervading,  it  cannot  move,  and  nothing  that  moves  in  the  universe  can  ever  move  except  in  medium  of  Consciousness.

This  idea  is  emphasised  in  the  first  line  of  this  mantram.


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