A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors.

  • Śaṅkarācārya
Date:
1888
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    gj| II \* 11 38. Everi that part of the Vedas, which inculcates the per- formance of various religious ceremonies (as contra-distinguish- ed from that part which inculcates the usefulness of knowledge only) describes the Atman as different from the dcha ; and as one, eternal, and therefore subsisting to undergo, after the des- truction of its material coil, the results of actions done during any previous life. ii II 39. Even the astral body is made up of many things (not one), is unstable, is tbe object of perception, is subject to change, limited, and non-existent. How could this astral body ever be the Purusha ? tot fw i 40. Thus the Atman is evidently different from these two bodies, and is the Purusha, the Lord, the Soul of All, every thing in itself, free from all conditions, present in every one as the substratum of the ego, and indestructible. feTOTmr n n 41. Thus the enunciation of the difference between the two bodies and the Atman involving an (indirect) assertion of the reality of the material transitional Universe, given in a manner after the principles of the Parkas’astra (Nyaya), compasses but a very insignificant aim in life. ’ * For it leaves the state of final absolution open to some objections as to its utility or quality, based on the duality of the cosmic principle.