| 15. Without and
within (all beings ; the unmoving as also the moving. Because subtle That
is incomprehensible ; and near and far away is That, without: what lies
outside the body which is inclusive of the sin and which is regarded through
ignorance as ones own self. And with an refers to the Inner self, Pratyagat
man, lying inside the body: The statement that It is without and within
may imply Its absence in the middle. To prevent this implication, the Lord
says that It is thus unmoving as also the moving. It is Brahman, the Knowable,
That appears as the bodies, moving and unmoving, just as a rope appears
as a snake. Brahman is comprehended only by the wise.(Objection) ;If all
things we perceive, the moving and the unmoving, were the Knowable, then
how is it that Brahman is not directly comprehended by everybody, as This
is ?(,answer):True, It manifests. Itself as everything ; but It is subtle
I like the akasa. Wherefore, on accounts of Its subtlety, It is incomprehensible
to the unenlightened, though knowable in Itself. It is, however, always
.known to the enlightened, as revealed in the following texts: All this
is the Self and the self alone All this is Brahman and Brahman alone.It
is far away when unknown ; for lt. is unattainable by the unenlightened
even in millions of years. And to the enlightened It is very near, because
It is their own Self. Brahman is the one Self in all. |
