ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram - 5.
ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :
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VAJASANEYI SAMHITA UPANISHAD
Mantram : 5.
Discussion-2. "It moves"...'ghost' ....,'post' .....'ghost-vision' .... "That moves not" .........
"It moves " --- Yes; the 'ghost' shows signs with its wizardly hands and with its horrid face grins at the deluded; but the 'post,' which is the realty behind the 'ghost-vision' of the dusk, " That moves not."
The pure Awareness or Consciousness, the Life-principle in all beings, in 'Its all-pervading' essential nature, neither moves nor acts.
Established in Its own glory, It revels in its own existence.
But ' matter,' vibrant with the touch of life, flutters and trembles, sighs and sobs, moves and acts, accomplishes and enjoys.
Example: 1.
With reference to the waves, the ocean is termed as surging, seething, heaving, roaring, etc,...
But in its own true nature, the ocean is not the waves alone, and it is tranquil and peaceful, motionless and majestic in its depth, calmness and serenity.
So too, with life as such, the Atma, in its all-pervading nature, is motionless, and It neither acts nor works.
With reference to the 'matter'- envelopments around It, lifr can be defined as thinking, feeling, or acting.
The boat moves, but never the lake.
Example: -2.
Sitting in a train that is halting at a station, the traveller looks out through the window to a moving train on parallel lines, and feels that his own train is moving.
With reference to a moving factor, the motionless would look as though moving, though itself is motionless and still.
Example :- 3.
When viewed from the deck of a moving boat, the trees on the banks are seen moving.
Perceptions are always relative.
Similarly, viewing the motionless Spirit of Life from and through the world of agitations in 'matter' the "Spirit Itself looks as though It moves, and yet, in Is real nature, It moves not."
Next : Discussion - 3. " It is distant and It is near" ......
To be continued ....
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