नायमात्मा प्रवचनेन लभ्यो
न मेधया न बहुना श्रुतेन ।
यमेवैष वृणुतेतेन लभ्यः
तस्यैष आत्मा विवृणुतेतनूꣳ स्वाम् ॥ २3
NA AYAM ATMA PRAVACHANEN LABHYO
NA MEDHAYA NA BAHUNA SHRUTEN|
YAM EVA YEISH VRUNUTE TEN LABHYAH
TASYESH ATMA VIVRUNUTE TANUM ||23
THIS ATMA CAN NOT BE ATTAINED BY DISCOURSE NOR BY SHEAR INTELEGENCE,
NOR BY JUST LISTENING,
TO HIM ATMA REVEALS IT'S TRUE NATURE WHO CHOOSES IT ALONE ||23
In this Shloka Yama raj is telling us how to achieve the ATMA or realize it . There are certain points that are told to us in this one . So many of us believe that if I would listen to the PRAVACHAN or the discourse given by some learned person on this topic, we will KNOW Atman. The discourse is good but it will not make us realize the ATMA. This is may be like doing brain surgery after attending lecture on how to do brain surgery. One can certainly KNOW the anatomy and also the TECHNIQUE, but one will not be successful in doing surgery unless and until he has done some under guidance. Some may feel that they are smart and inelegant and they can KNOW Atman by help of intelligence. In certain religion the devotee READ textbook of their religion and feel that will take them to GOD and that is not possible. Yes that may improve our social behavior or we may become better person . But it will not get us to the ultimate goal. The MIND,INTELECT AND PHYSICAL BODY can not perceive on own ATMAN ,unless it itself REVEALS IT TO US . So we are told that when we CHOOSE NOTHING but Atman , then it itself will reveal it's real nature
I feel that at lower level of mediation we DO perceive part of it with our SENSE organs and then at little higher level , it is MIND and then at higher level intellect and still at higher level with EGO . These are different levels of SAMADHI. But the highest level is on PERCEPTION WITHOUT ANY OF THESE THINGS INVOLVED -BODY-MIND-INTELECT-EGO.
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