Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses.
Brahman is non-dual, one without a second.
It has no other beside It.
It is destitute of difference, either external or internal.
Brahman cannot be described, because description implies distinction.
Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It.
In Brahman, there is not the distinction of substance and attribute.
THE MOKSHA GITA by SWAMI SIVANANDA defines Brahman as follows:
3, 4. That Ultimate Reality, which is the support for this world, body, Prana, mind and
senses, which is the womb for the Vedas, which is all-pervading and all-permeating,
which is colourless, odourless, tasteless, nameless and formless, that something shines
eternally.
5. Some indescribable supreme principle which is imperishable, unborn, undecaying,
fearless, motionless, one without a second, ancient and infinite, that thing alone exists.
6. What is neither short nor long, neither that much nor this much, neither black nor
white, neither stout nor thin, neither good nor bad, that should be understood as
Brahman.
7. That which is neither subtle nor dense, which has neither caste nor name, which is
immutable, immortal and bodiless, which is beyond the reach of mind and speech, that
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