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PART 'ONE
intelligent principle in man. By its prisence behind our
various organs, It enables them to fulfil their respective
functions. But not knowing this fact, ignorant man
mistakes the senses, mind, etc., to be really intelligent,.
and, therefore, identifies the Atman with them. The Wise
man, on the other hand, overcomes this identification,
realizes his spiritual nature and hence attains immortality.
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Ear hears
etc.—The appropriateness of the
enumeration of these faculties Is this : The Atman in itself
has no attributes, and hence there is no sign by which It
can be indicated ; so those who have not intuited Its -
existence in samadhi infer It through the various powers,
of personality.]
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that also) if not fitatiWirt: (we) know.
.3. The eye' does not go there, nor speeoh, nor'
mind. Wes do not therefore know It, nor do we knot
any process of instructing about It.
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Eye cannot 'go there
etc.—The eye and
other organs are useful only in seeking external objects.
The Atman being the animating principle behind them, is-
beyond their ken; for, one cannot go into one's own selE.