Mundakopanishad : CHAPTER-2. SECTION-2. MANTRAM-1.{ Pointers to the nature of Brahmam and advice how to know it. }
Mundakopanishad :
CHAPTER-2.
SECTION-2.
MANTRAM-1.{ Pointers to the nature of Brahmam and advice how to know it. }
Discussion - 3. "Existing very close" ..
The Atma or the Divine Spark in us is considered to be the closest to us, since it is the very center of our personality.
Compared to its nearness to us, even the body is a distant object.
We use the pronoun 'that' to indicate something which is farther from another object which is nearer to us --- indicated by the term 'this.'
Compared to the Atma, even the intellect is but an object distant from it; and so it has to be indicated by the term 'that'.
The center, the nearest one, is 'this Atma'.
The object is the nearest to us because in "our real nature we are the subject, and everything other than the subject cinstitutes the world of objects".
The Atma is the center, and the objects constituted by the world of ideologies, feelings, and matter, are all widening circles of concentric circumferences around the same center.
Hence Mother Sruti is perfectly scientific in indicating the Spirit as the nearest to us.
Next : Discussion-4. "Moving in the cavity of the Heart".....
To be continued .....
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