| 30. When a man
realizes the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and is an evolution
from that (One alone then he becomes Brahman.When, in accordance with the
teachings of the sastra and the teacher, he sees that all the various classes
of beings abide in the One, in the Self, i,e when he intuitively realizes
that all that we perceive is only the Self and when he further sees that
the origin, the evolution, (of all) is from that One, the Self,as stated
in the passage From the Self is life, from the Self is desire, from the
Self is love, from the self is akasa, from the Self is light, from the Self
arc waters, from the Self is manifestation and disappearance, from the Self
is food. (Chha. Up. 7261)then he becomes Brahman indeed. The Self is unaffected
by the fruits of acts.If the one Self be the Self in all the bodies, then
He must be necessarily affected by their defects. To avoid this conclusion
it is said: |
