Gita-Sarah-Commentary-on-the-Slokas-of-Bhagavad-Gita

may see one in your dream. Similarly theflower in the sky as also the horn of arabbit are unreal objects and cannot havean existence of their own except in adream or imagination. Here, Asat refersto the body and also to opposite pairs(Dvandvas) like heat and cold, pleasureand pain etc. These ‘Asat’ objects haveno existence of their own. They are allproducts of the mind imagined due topast conditioning. The body is thus asuperimposition like the dream objectsseen in a dream. If a pot is made up ofclay, pot is only a transformation of clay. Itis the clay which was its material causeand it only sustains the form of a pot. So apot is called ‘asat’. Pot is a name given toa transformed form of clay. The pot has notrue existence as such.By ‘Sat’ is meant the final truth i.e. theAtman (Self). As it is all pervasive and28<strong>Gita</strong> <strong>Sarah</strong>