UPANISHAD VAHINI - Sathya Sai Speaks

UPANISHAD VAHINI23The Atma is the prime instrument for all activity andknowledge, the inner motive-force behind everything. Thisdelusion of manifoldness, variety, multiplicity, many-ness,has to die. It is born of Ajnana. The “many” is a miragecaused by “circumstances.” The feeling that you areseparate from the One is the root of all this seeming birthand death, which the individual appears to go through.Yama then declared the Nature of Brahmam to Nachiketha,to remove his doubts on that point.Like a light hidden by smoke, the Thumb-sizedPurusha (the Angushtamaathra) is eternally shining. Asthe torrent of rain falling on a peak is shattered downwardsin a thousand streams, the Jivi, who feels many-ness anddifference, falls down through many-ness and goes towaste. This Upanishad announces that there is nothinghigher than the Atma or even equal to it. The roots of atree are invisible. They are hidden underground; but theireffect is evident in the flowers that are visible, is it not?So too, this Samsaravriksha (the tree of life). From thatexperience, you have to infer that the root, Brahmam, isthere as sustenance and as support, said Yama.The Tree of Samsara is like the magician’s mangotree; it is just an illusion. He who has purified his Buddhican see in it, as in a fine mirror, the Atma, in this very life.Brahmam is the Jneyam, the thing known to the seeker