UPANISHAD VAHINI - Sathya Sai Speaks

UPANISHAD VAHINI65The wonder is: the Atma is inactive and withoutqualifications. It does not get anything done with the manasor the senses, remember. They get activated by the verypresence of the Atma! The rays of the Sun are not awareat all of the activity they invoke. The Atma is notresponsible for the activity of the senses. (This teachingwas given by Varuna to his son, Bhrigu).The eye, when illumined by the splendour of theAtma, is able to grasp form, which is its sphere. It cannever hope to illumine the Atma, which is self-luminous.The lamp illumines objects; but the objects cannot, intheir turn, illumine the lamp. The Vaak can describe ordenote only such as possess qualifications, like name,form, guna (quality), kriya (action, deed), etc. How canit describe or define that which has no qualifications, noname, no form, no characteristic—viz. the Paramatma?You cannot describe sweetness or similar tastes by meansof words. The Atma is not a subject for description. Thenon-intelligent Manas cannot experience the Intelligence.There is no knower who can know the Knower at all. Heis beyond all knowable things. When known, He is nolonger Knower or Knowledge.Brahmam is Jnanam itself: so, it can never be“known” by a “knower”. By the process of knowing,other things can be known, not Knowledge itself. Thelamp will not crave for another lamp to see itself nor will